Numbers 23:3-12 Then said Balaam unto Balak: Station thyself by thine ascending–sacrifice, and let me go my way––peradventure, Yahweh may come and meet me, and, what thing soever he may show me, I will tell thee. So he went his way to a bare height.

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Then said Balaam unto Balak: Station thyself by thine ascending–sacrifice, and let me go my way––peradventure, Yahweh may come and meet me, and, what thing soever he may show me, I will tell thee. So he went his way to a bare height. ⁴ And God came unto Balaam,––so he said unto him––The seven altars, have I built in a row, and have caused to ascend, bullock and a ram on each altar. ⁵ And Yahweh put a word into the mouth of Balaam,––and said––Return unto Balak, and, thus, shalt thou speak. ⁶ So he returned unto him, and lo! he was stationed by his ascending–sacrifice,––he, and all the princes of Moab. ⁷ So he took up his parable and said,––From Aram, doth Balak conduct me, The king of Moab, from the mountains of the East, Come thou! curse me Jacob, Yea, come thou! rage on Israel. ⁸ How can I revile one whom GOD, hath not reviled? Yea, how can I rage on one on whom Yahweh, hath not raged? ⁹ Surely, from the head of the rocks, do I see him, Yea, from the hills, do I observe him,––Lo! a people, who alone, doth dwell, And, among the nations, he doth not reckon himself. ¹⁰ Who, hath counted the dust of Jacob? Or who, hath numbered the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, And let my hereafter be like his! ¹¹ Then said Balak unto Balaam, What hast thou done for me? To revile mine enemies, I summoned thee, and lo! thou hast, kept on blessing. ¹² And he answered and said,––Was it not [to be so] that, whatsoever Yahweh should put into my mouth, the same, should I take heed to speak?