1 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this place, and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me in this place.” 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak—Balaam also—offered a bullock and a ram on the altar, 3 and Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt-offering and I will go on, it may be YHWH comes to meet me, and the thing which He shows me I will declare to you.” And he went to a high place. 4 And God came to Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have arranged the seven altars, and I offer a bullock and a ram on the altar.” 5 And YHWH put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.” 6 And he returned to him, and look, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he and all the princes of Moab. 7 And he took up his allegory and said: “Balak king of Moab leads me from Aram. From mountains of the east. Come—curse Jacob for me, || And come—be indignant with Israel. 8 How do I pierce when God has not pierced? And how am I indignant when YHWH has not been indignant? 9 For from the top of rocks I see him, || And from heights I look at him. Look a people! He stays alone, || And does not reckon himself among nations. 10 Who has counted the dust of Jacob, || And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, || And let my last end be like his!” 11 And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I have taken you to pierce my enemies, and look, you have certainly blessed.” 12 And he answered and said, “That which YHWH put in my mouth—do I not take heed to speak it?” 13 And Balak said to him, “Come! Come to another place with me, from where you see it—you see only its extremity, and you will not see all of it, and pierce it for me there.” 14 And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on the altar. 15 And he said to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt-offering, and I will meet Him there.” 16 And YHWH came to Balaam, and set a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.” 17 And he came to him, and look, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab were with him, and Balak said to him: “What has YHWH spoken?” 18 And he took up his allegory and said: “Rise, Balak, and hear. Give ear to me, son of Zippor! 19 God is not a man—and lies, || And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do it? And spoken—and He does not confirm it? 20 Look, I have received only to bless. Indeed, He blesses, and I cannot reverse it. 21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, || Nor has He seen perverseness in Israel. His God YHWH is with him, || And a shout of a king is in him. 22 God is bringing them out from Egypt, || As the swiftness of a wild ox for him. 23 For no enchantment is against Jacob, || Nor divination against Israel. At the time it is said of Jacob and Israel, || O what God has worked! 24 Look, the people rise as a lioness, || And he lifts himself up as a lion. He does not lie down until he eats prey, || And drinks blood of pierced ones.” 25 And Balak said to Balaam, “Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all.” 26 and Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Have I not spoken to you, saying, All that YHWH speaks—I do it?” 27 And Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place. It may be it is right in the eyes of God to pierce it for me from there.” 28 And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which was looking on the front of the wilderness, 29 and Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this place, and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me in this place.” 30 and Balak did as Balaam said, and he offered a bullock and a ram on an altar.