¹¹ Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? ^(A)I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have blessed them repeatedly!” ¹² And he replied, “Must I not be careful to speak ^(B)what Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

Balaam’s Discourse

¹³ Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, but you will only see the end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.” ¹⁴ So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. ¹⁵ And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet Yahweh over there.” ¹⁶ Then Yahweh met Balaam and ^(C)put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” ¹⁷ So he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”