Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Even though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh} my God to do a little or a lot.

And Balak did just as Balaam spoke, and Balak offered Balaam a bull and a ram on the altar.

Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel did to the Amorites,

And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now the crowd will lick up all around us, like a bull devours the grass of the field." And Balak son of Zippor [was] king of Moab at that time.

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went [with] a fee for divination in their hand; they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.

And Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent [word] to me,

Balaam got up in the morning, and he said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land, because Yahweh refused to allow me to go with you."

The princes of Moab got up and went to Balak, and they said, "Balaam refused to come with us."

Balak again sent many princes, [who were more] honored {than the former}.

They came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak son of Zippor, 'Please, let nothing keep you from coming to me

The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him by the city of Moab, which [was] on the boundary of Aaron at the end of the territory.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not urgently send to meet with you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?"

Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I came to you now. Am I really able to speak anything at all? I speak the word that God puts in my mouth."

Balaam went with Balak, and they came [to] Kiriath-Huzoth.

And Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he sent [them] to Balaam and to the princes who [were] with him.

And it happened, in the morning Balak took Balaam and took him up to Bamoth-Baal, and he saw from there the end of the nation.

Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams."

And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you." So he went [to] a barren height.

Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."

And he lifted up his oracle and said, "From Aram Balak lead me, from the mountains of the east the king of Moab, 'Go for me, curse Jacob, and go, denounce Israel.'

And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!"

Then Balak said, "Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, [but] you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there."

Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with [Yahweh] there."

Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."

He came to him, and behold, he [was] standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

Then {he uttered} his oracle, and said, "Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor!

Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!"

But Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do'?"

Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps {it will be acceptable to} God, and you will curse for me from there."

So Balak took Balaam [to] the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon.

And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams."

Balak did just as Balaam said, and he offered a bull and a ram on [each] altar.

Then {Balak became angry with} Balaam, and he clapped his hands and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have surely blessed [them] these three times.

Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

'If Balak gave to me the fullness of his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh} to do good or evil, from my heart; what Yahweh speaks, I will speak'?

Then Balaam got up and went and returned to his place, and Balak also went on his way.

Then a wind set out from Yahweh, and it drove quails from the west, and he spread [them] out on the camp about a day's journey on one side and about a day's journey on the other, all around the camp, about two cubits on the surface of the land.