15. He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
16. The Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
17. He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
18. He took up his parable, and said,“Rise up, Balak, and hear!Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
19. God is not a man, that he should lie,nor a son of man, that he should repent.Has he said, and will he not do it?Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
20. Behold, I have received a command to bless.He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
21. He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.The Lord his God is with him.The shout of a king is amongst them.
22. God brings them out of Egypt.He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
23. Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;Neither is there any divination with Israel.Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘What has God done!’
24. Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.As a lion he lifts himself up.He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey,and drinks the blood of the slain.”
25. Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
26. But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?’”
27. Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
28. Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
29. Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
30. Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.