2 And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam aoffered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3 Then Balaam said to Balak, a“Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come bto meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate height.
4 aAnd God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5 Then the Lord aput a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he atook up his oracle and said:
“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
b‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, cdenounce Israel!’
“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
b‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, cdenounce Israel!’
8 “Howa shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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