1Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
3Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.
4God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
5Yahweh put a word in Balaam`s mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
6He returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt- offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
