Numbers 22:10-16

¹⁰Balaam answered God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me. He said,

¹¹'Look, the people who have come from Egypt cover the surface of my land. Now come and curse them for me. Perhaps I will manage to fight them and drive them out.'”

¹²God replied to Balaam, “You must not go with those men. You must not curse the people of Israel because they have been blessed.”

¹³Balaam rose up in the morning and said to Balak's leaders, “Go back to your land because Yahweh refuses to allow me to go with you.”

¹⁴So the leaders of Moab left and went back to Balak. They said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

¹⁵Balak sent again more leaders who were even more honored than the first group.

¹⁶They came to Balaam and said to him, “Balak son of Zippor says this, 'Please let nothing stop you from coming to me,