And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can go no further than the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

And Balak did as Balaam said. And Balak and Balaam offered on every altar an ox and a ram.

And the LORD put a saying in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Go again to Balak and say on this wise."

And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,

And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, "Now this company hath licked up all that are round about us, as an ox licketh up the grass of the field." And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

And the elders of Moab went with the elders of Midian, and the reward of the soothsaying in their hands. And they came unto Balaam and told him the words of Balak.

And Balaam said unto God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the lords of Balak, "Get you unto your land, for the LORD will not suffer me to go with you."

And the lords of Moab rose up and went unto Balak and said, "Balaam would not come with us."

And Balak sent again a greater company of lords, and more honorable than they.

And they came to Balaam and told him, "Thus sayeth Balak, the son of Zippor: 'Oh, let nothing let thee to come unto me,

And the angel said unto Balaam, "Go with the men: but in any wise, what I say unto thee, that say." And Balaam went with the lords of Balak.

And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out against him unto a city of Moab that stood in the border of Arnon, which was the utmost part of his country.

And Balak said unto Balaam, "Did I not send for thee, to call thee? Wherefore camest thou not unto me? Thinkest thou that I am not able to promote thee unto honour?"

And Balaam said unto Balak, "Lo, I am come unto thee. But I can say nothing at all, save what God putteth in my mouth that must I speak."

And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto the city of Huzoth.

And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent for Balaam and for the lords that were with him.

And on the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high place of Baal, and thence he saw unto the utmost part of the people.

And Balaam said unto Balak, "Build me here seven altars and provide here seven oxen and seven rams."

And Balaam said unto Balak, "Stand by the sacrifice, while I go to know whether the LORD will come and meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me, I will tell thee." And he went forthwith.

And he began his parable, and said, "Balak the king of Moab hath fetched me from Mesopotamia out of the mountains of the east saying, 'Come and curse me Jacob, come and defy me Israel.'

And Balak said unto Balaam, "What hast thou done unto me? I fetched thee to curse mine enemies: and behold, thou blessest them!"

And Balak said unto him, "Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place: whence thou shalt see them, and shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all and curse me them there."

And he said unto Balak, "Stand here, by thy sacrifice, while I go yonder."

And the LORD met Balaam and put words in his mouth, and said, "Go again unto Balak and thus say."

And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his sacrifice: and the lords of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, "What sayeth the LORD?"

And he took up his parable and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! And hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor!

And Balak said unto Balaam, "Neither curse them nor bless them."

And Balaam answered and said unto Balak, "Told not I thee, saying, 'All that the LORD biddeth me, that I must do?'"

And Balak said unto Balaam, "Come, I pray thee; I will bring thee yet unto another place: so peradventure it shall please God that thou mayest curse them there."

And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that boweth toward the wilderness.

And Balaam said unto Balak, "Make me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams."

And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

And Balak was wroth with Balaam, and smote his hands together, and said unto him, "I sent for thee to curse mine enemies: and behold, thou hast blessed them this three times,

And Balaam said unto Balak, "Told I not thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot pass the mouth of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind. What the LORD sayeth, that must I speak.'

And Balaam rose up and went and dwelt in his place: and Balak also went his way.