5. And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
6. Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:
7. And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.
8. How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?