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.
8How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?
9For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!