Numbers 23:3-12

³And Bileam said to Balak, Remain by thy burnt offering; and I will go, if perhaps the Word may meet me from before the Lord; and the word that He showeth me I will disclose unto thee. And he went solitary.

⁴And the Word from before the Lord met Bileam; and he said to Him; The seven altars have I set in order, and have offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar.

⁵And the Lord put a word upon Bileam’s mouth, and said to him: Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

⁶And he returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the nobles of Moab.

⁷And he took up his parable, and said: Balak, king of Moab, hath brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east: Come, curse me, Jakob, Come, hunt down Israel for me.

⁸How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? How shall I persecute whom God hath not?

⁹For from the top of the mountain I discern him, And look upon him from the heights; Lo, the people by themselves are to possess the world, And among the nations they shall not be judged with consumption.

¹⁰Who can number the dust of the house of Jakob, Of whom it is said, They shall increase as the dust of the earth, Or of one of the four camps of Israel? Let mine be the death of his truthful ones, And let my end be as theirs!

¹¹And Balak said to Bileam, What hast thou done to me? I brought thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, blessing hast thou blessed them.

¹²But he said, That which the Lord hath put in my mouth must I not observe to speak?