3Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.
4And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
5And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
6So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab.
7And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
8How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?
9From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.
