Numbers 23 Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.” ² Balak did as he was told. He and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar. ³ And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps the LORD 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 seven altars, and I have offered upon the altar a bull and a ram. ⁵ And the LORD put a saying in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Go again to Balak and say on this wise." ⁶ He went back to Balak and found him standing beside his burnt offering with all the princes of Moab. ⁷ Balaam delivered this message: "Balak brought me from Aram. The king of Moab summoned me from the eastern mountains. Come and curse Jacob for me," he said. 'Come and condemn Israel. ⁸ "'How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I condemn those whom the LORD has not condemned? ⁹ Because from the top of the rocks I see him, from hilltops I watch him. Behold, a people who dwell alone, they do not consider themselves 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 Balak responded to Balaam: "What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, but all you have done is bless them!" ¹² He answered and said, "Should I not speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?" ¹³ Balak said: "Please come with me to another place, where you can see the Israelites. You will see only some of them, not all of them. Curse them for me from there." ¹⁴ So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar. ¹⁵ Then Balaam said to Balak: "Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet with God over there." ¹⁶ The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this." ¹⁷ So he returned and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering. He was with the leaders of Moab. Balak asked what the LORD said. ¹⁸ Then he uttered his oracle, and said, "Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor! ¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? ²⁰ Look, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it. ²¹ He has not seen iniquity in Jacob, neither has He seen perverseness in Israel. the LORD his God is with him, the shout of a king is among them. ²² God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of a wild ox. ²³ For there is not a spell against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. Now it is said of Jacob and Israel, See what God has done! ²⁴ Look! the people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain." ²⁵ And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. ²⁶ Balaam answered: "Did I not tell you that I must do everything the LORD tells me?" ²⁷ And Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there. ²⁸ So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land. ²⁹ Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.” ³⁰ Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.