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The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, ‘Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.’ So he returned to Balak,[a] who was standing beside his burnt-offerings with all the officials of Moab. Then Balaam[b] uttered his oracle, saying:

‘Balak has brought me from Aram,
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
“Come, curse Jacob for me;
    Come, denounce Israel!”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 23:6 Heb him
  2. Numbers 23:7 Heb he

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