Bible Verses

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and may my end be like theirs!”

From the peak of the crags, I see him; from the heights, I behold him. I see people who live apart from all the nations.

How can I curse him whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce him whom God has not denounced?

Then Balaam pronounced his oracle: “From Aram, Balak has brought me, the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains. ‘Come, curse Jacob for me! Come, denounce Israel!

Balaam returned and found Balak standing beside his offering together with the leaders of Moab.

The Lord then put a message on Balaam’s lips and said: “Go back to Balak and give him this message.”

God met Balaam, who said: “I have prepared the seven altars, and on each altar, I have offered a bullock and a ram.”

Balaam said to Balak: “Stand here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will meet me, and I will tell you whatever he lets me see.” So he went to a barren hill.

Balak did just as Balaam had ordered, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bullock and a ram on each altar.

First Oracle Balaam said: “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me,”