Numbers 22:10-16

¹⁰Balaam answered, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moabites, sent to me, and said,

¹¹Lo! a people that is gone out of Egypt hath covered the face of the earth; come thou, and curse them, if in any manner I may fight with them, and drive them away.

¹²And God said to Balaam, Do not thou go with them, neither curse thou the people, for it is blessed.

¹³And Balaam rose early, and said to the princes, Go ye into your land, for God hath forbade me to come with you.

¹⁴The princes turned again, and said to Balak, Balaam would not come with us.

¹⁵Again Balak sent many more, and nobler, men, than he had sent before;

¹⁶which said, when they had come to Balaam, Balak, the son of Zippor, saith thus, Tarry thou not to come to me,