¹¹ Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemy. But now you’ve blessed him.”

¹² He answered and said, “Don’t I have to take care to speak whatever the Lord gives me to say?”

Balaam’s second blessing of the Israelites

¹³ Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come with me, please, to another place where you’ll see them. You’ll see only part of them. You won’t see all of them. Then curse them for me from there.” ¹⁴ He took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah. He built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

¹⁵ Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your entirely burned offering, while I seek an appearance over there.”

¹⁶ The Lord granted Balaam an appearance and gave him a message. He said, “Return to Balak and say this.”

¹⁷ Balaam approached Balak, who was standing by his entirely burned offering with the officials of Moab. Balak said to him, “What did the Lord say?”