1Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams." 2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram. 3Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height. 4God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar." 5The LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak." 6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. 7He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, 8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? 9For from the top of the rocks I see him. 10Who can count the dust of Jacob, 11Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether." 12He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?" 13Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there." 14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 15He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there." 16The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this." 17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?" 18He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! 19God is not a man, that he should lie, 20Behold, I have received a command to bless. 21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. 22God brings them out of Egypt. 23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; 24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, 25Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all." 26But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?'" 27Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there." 28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. 29Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams." 30Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.