Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Numbers 22:34-41 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

34. Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing that thou didst stand against me: and now if it displease thee that I go, I will return.

35. The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the princes.

36. And when Balac heard it he came forth to meet him in a town of the Moabites, that is situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon.

37. And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy coming?

38. He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?

39. So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the uttermost borders of his kingdom.

40. And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep, he sent presents to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

41. And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.