Numbers 22:7-14

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⁷ The messengers he sent were some of the top leaders of Moab and Midian. They went to Balaam with money in hand and urgently explained to him what Balak wanted.

⁸ “Stay here overnight,” Balaam said, “and I’ll tell you in the morning whatever the Lord directs me to say.” So they did.

⁹ That night God came to Balaam and asked him, “Who are these men?”

¹⁰ “They have come from King Balak of Moab,” he replied. ¹¹ “The king says that a vast horde of people from Egypt has arrived at his border, and he wants me to go at once and curse them, in the hope that he can battle them successfully.”

¹² “Don’t do it!” God told him. “You are not to curse them, for I have blessed them!”

¹³ The next morning Balaam told the men, “Go on home! The Lord won’t let me do it.”

¹⁴ So King Balak’s ambassadors returned without him and reported his refusal.