Numbers 23:11-17

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹¹ Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have just blessed them.”

¹² Balaam answered, “Don’t I have to speak accurately whatever the Lord puts in my mouth?”

Balaam’s Second Message

¹³ Balak said to Balaam, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will see only their outskirts. You will not see all of them. From there curse them for me.”

¹⁴ Balak took Balaam into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah. Balak built seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each altar. ¹⁵ Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord over there.”

¹⁶ The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. The Lord said, “Return to Balak, and you are to deliver this message.”

¹⁷ Balaam came back to Balak and found him standing by his burnt offering, and the officials of Moab were with him. Balak said to him, “What did the Lord say?”