Balaam's Second Oracle

¹³ And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”

⁹ With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people ^(A)who are made in the likeness of God. ¹⁰ From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,^[a] these things ought not to be so.

²⁸ And a ^(A)man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because the Syrians have said, ^(B)“The Lord is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore ^(C)I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’”

²³ And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

^9 (A)Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. ^(B)And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

⁴¹ And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw a fraction of the people.