12. But God said to Balaam, “You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
13. So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, for the Lord has refused to permit me to go with you.”
14. So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”
15. Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.
16. And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: ‘Please do not let anything hinder you from coming to me.