Numbers 23:3-12

³And Balaam said to Balak, Stand thou a little while beside thy burnt sacrifice, while I go, if in hap the Lord meet me; and I shall tell thee what-ever thing he shall command. And when he had gone away swiftly,

⁴God came to him; and Balaam spake to him, and said, I have raised up seven altars, and I have put a calf and a ram above each of them.

⁵Forsooth the Lord putted a word in his mouth, and said, Turn again to Balak, and thou shalt speak these things.

⁶He turned again, and found Balak standing beside his burnt sacrifice, and all the princes of Moabites.

⁷And when his parable was taken, he said, Balak, the king of Moabites, brought me from Aram, from the hills of the east; and he said, Come thou, and curse Jacob; haste thou, and curse Israel.

⁸How shall I curse, whom God hath cursed not? by what reason shall I loathe, whom God loatheth not?

⁹From the highest flints I shall see him, and from the little hills I shall behold him; the people shall dwell alone, and it shall not be reckoned among heathen men.

¹⁰Who may number the dust, that is, the kindred, of Jacob, and who may know the number of the generation of Israel? My life die in the death of just or rightwise men, and my last things be made like them!

¹¹And Balak said to Balaam, What is this that thou doest? I called thee, that thou shouldest curse mine enemies, and on the contrary, thou blessest them.

¹²To whom Balaam answered, Whether I may speak other thing, no but that that the Lord commandeth?