11. “What have you done to me?” cried Balak to Balaam. “It was to lay a curse on my foes that I brought you here; but instead, you have blessed them!”
12. Balaam replied, “Is it not what the Lord puts in my mouth that I take care to repeat?”
13. Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can see them; but you will see only some, not all of them, and from there lay a curse on them for me.”
14. So he brought him to a lookout post on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them.
15. Balaam then said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I seek a meeting over there.”
16. Then the Lord met Balaam, and, having put an utterance in his mouth, said to him: Return to Balak, and speak accordingly.