1. Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."
2. Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
3. Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you." So he went to a bare hill.
4. Now 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."
5. Then the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus."
6. So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
7. He took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, Moab's king from the mountains of the East, 'Come curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!'