MLV(i)
3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps Jehovah will come to meet me and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height.
4 And God met Balaam and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. 5 And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, Return to Balak and thus you will speak. 6 And he returned to him. And behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he and all the rulers of Moab.
7 And he took up his oracle and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the King of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me and come, defy Israel. 8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah has not defied? 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone and will not be reckoned among the nations. 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his!
11 And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether. 12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak what Jehovah puts in my mouth?
4 And God met Balaam and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. 5 And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, Return to Balak and thus you will speak. 6 And he returned to him. And behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he and all the rulers of Moab.
7 And he took up his oracle and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the King of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me and come, defy Israel. 8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah has not defied? 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone and will not be reckoned among the nations. 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his!
11 And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether. 12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak what Jehovah puts in my mouth?