King James Version

1 And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams." 2 And Balak did as Balaam spoke, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on the altar. 3 And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you." And he went on to a bare height. 4 And God called to Balaam and said to him, "I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar." 5 And the Lord put a word in the mouth of Balaam, and he said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak." 6 And he returned to me, and behold, he was standing by his offering, and all the officials of Moab. 7 And he took up a parable and said, “From Aram, Balak has brought me, the king of Moab, from the mountains of the east: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel.’” 8 What shall I call, not calling upon God? And what shall I shout, that the Lord does not shout? 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the heights I behold him; behold, a people that dwells alone and is not counted among the nations. 10 Who has counted the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the upright, and let my end be like theirs. 11 And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them indeed." 12 And he answered and said, "Should I not keep what the Lord puts in my mouth to speak?" 13 And Balak said to me, "Come, please, with me to another place from where you will see them; you will see only their edge, but all of them you will not see; and you will curse them for me from there." 14 And he took the field of watchers to the top of the height and he built seven altars and he offered a bull and a ram on the altar. 15 And he said to Balaak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, and I will go over there." 16 And the LORD called to Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak and so you shall speak." 17 And he came to me, and behold, he was standing on his burnt offering and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?" 18 And he took up his parable and said, "Rise, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor." 19 Not a man, and he will lie, nor a son of man, and he will change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? 20 Behold, I have taken a blessing, and I will not return it. 21 He did not look upon wickedness in Jacob and did not see trouble in Israel; the LORD his God is with him and the shout of a king is in him. 22 God brings them out of Egypt like the whirlwinds of the south. 23 For there is no divination in Jacob and no fortune-telling in Israel; at the time it shall be said to Jacob and to Israel, “What has God done!” 24 Behold, a people rises like a lion and like a lioness, it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has eaten the prey, and the blood of the slain will drink. 25 And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all." 26 And Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, I will do’?” 27 And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be right in the eyes of God, and he will curse for me from there." 28 And Balak took Balaam, the chief of Peor that looks over the face of the wasteland. 29 And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams." 30 And Balak did as Balaam said, and he offered a bull and a ram on the altar.