⁸ “Stay here overnight,” Balaam said. “In the morning I will tell you whatever the Lord directs me to say.” So the officials from Moab stayed there with Balaam.

³¹ So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts seek only after money.

¹² But Balaam replied, “I will speak only the message that the Lord puts in my mouth.”

¹⁹ But stay here one more night, and I will see if the Lord has anything else to say to me.”

²⁰ That night God came to Balaam and told him, “Since these men have come for you, get up and go with them. But do only what I tell you to do.”

⁶ And the Lord said to them, “Now listen to what I say: