They reported to Moses: “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit.

Moses replied to them, “Wait here until I hear what the Lord commands for you.”

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the Lord will meet with me. I will tell you whatever He reveals to me.” So he went to a barren hill.

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.”

Balaam told Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

He said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the Lord tells me.” So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me.”

But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your brothers go to war while you stay here?

And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your fathers’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.

Then they approached him and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.

Our little children, wives, livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead,