Numbers 22:7-12

⁷Balak's messengers, who were leaders of both the Moab and Midian people-groups, took money with them to pay Balaam in order that he would come and curse the Israelis. They went to Balaam and told him what Balak had said.

⁸Balaam said, “Stay here tonight. Tomorrow morning I will tell you whatever Yahweh tells me that I should say to you.” So the leaders from Moab stayed there that night.

⁹During the night, God appeared to Balaam and asked him, “◄Who are/Tell me about► these men who are staying with you.”

¹⁰Balaam replied, “Balak, the king of Moab, sent these men to tell me this:

¹¹‘A huge group of people has come from Egypt, and they have spread all over this area. Please come immediately to curse them. Then I may be able to defeat them and expel them from this area.’”

¹²God replied to Balaam, “Do not go with them! I have blessed those people, so you must not curse them!”