Numbers 22:15-20

New International Reader's Version

¹⁵ Then Balak sent other officials. They were more important than the first ones. And there were more of them. ¹⁶ They came to Balaam. They said,

“Balak, the son of Zippor, says, ‘Don’t let anything keep you from coming to me. ¹⁷ I’ll make you very rich. I’ll do anything you say. So come and put a curse on those people for me.’ ”

¹⁸ But Balaam gave them his answer. He said, “Balak could give me all the silver and gold in his palace. Even then, I still couldn’t do anything at all that goes beyond what the Lord my God commands. ¹⁹ Now spend the night here so that I can find out what else the Lord will tell me.”

²⁰ That night God came to Balaam. He said, “These men have come to get you. So go with them. But do only what I tell you to do.”