Numbers 23:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ Then Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here beside your burnt-offerings while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.’ And he went to a bare height.

⁴ Then God met Balaam; and Balaam said to him, ‘I have arranged the seven altars, and have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.’ ⁵ The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, ‘Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.’