2. And Balaq did as Bil‛am had spoken, and Balaq and Bil‛am offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3. Bil‛am then said to Balaq, “Stand by your burnt offering, and let me go on. It might be that יהוה does come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I shall declare to you.” And he went to a bare height.
4. And Elohim came to Bil‛am, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5. And יהוה put a word in the mouth of Bil‛am, and said, “Return to Balaq, and this is what you say.”
6. And he returned to him and saw him standing by his burnt offering, he and all the heads of Mo’aḇ.
7. And he took up his proverb and said, “Balaq the sovereign of Mo’aḇ has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. ‘Come, curse Ya‛aqoḇ for me, and come, rage at Yisra’ĕl!’