Numbers 23:25-30

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²⁵ Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all.” ²⁶ But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Whatever the Lord says, that is what I must do’?”^(A)

²⁷ So Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”^{(B) 28} So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.^{[a] 29} Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”^{(C) 30} So Balak did as Balaam had said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.