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Numbers 22
⁴⁰ Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent some to Balaam and the leaders who were with him.
⁴¹ Then it came about in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal, and he saw from there a portion of the people.
Numbers 23
¹ Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."
² Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
³ Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you." So he went to a bare hill.
⁴ Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, "I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar."
⁵ Then the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus."
⁶ So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
⁷ He took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, Moab’s king from the mountains of the East, ’Come curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!’
⁸ "How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
⁹ "As I see him from the top of the rocks, And I look at him from the hills; Behold, a people who dwells apart, And will not be reckoned among the nations.