1. Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and here prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
2. So Balak did as Balaam had ordered, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3. Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I go over there. Perhaps the Lord will meet me, and then I will tell you whatever he lets me see.” And so he went out on the barren height.
4. Then God met Balaam, and Balak said to him: “I have erected the seven altars, and have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”
5. The Lord put an utterance in Balaam’s mouth, and said: Go back to Balak, and speak accordingly.
6. So he went back to Balak, who was still standing by his burnt offering together with all the princes of Moab.