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!'
8. "How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
9. "As I see him from the top of the rocks, And I look at him from the hills; Behold, a people who dwells apart, And will not be reckoned among the nations.
10. "Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, And let my end be like his!"