Numbers 23:1-10
Yahweh Speaks Through Balaam
23Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.” 2So Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar. 3Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.
4Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.” 5Then Yahweh aput a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.” 6So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab. 7Then he took up his 1discourse and said, “From aAram Balak has brought me,Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,‘bCome curse Jacob for me,And come, denounce Israel!’
8“aHow shall I curse whom God has not cursed?And how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced?9“For I see him from the top of the rocks,And I look at him from the hills;aBehold, a people who dwells alone,And will not be reckoned among the nations.10“aWho can number the dust of Jacob,Or count the fourth part of Israel?bLet 1me die the death of the upright,cAnd let my end be like his!”