Numbers 22:8 CPDV

⁶  Therefore, come and curse this people, for they are stronger than I am. If only, in some way, I might be able to strike them and to drive them from my land. For I know that he whom you bless shall be blessed, and he whom you curse shall be cursed.'

⁷  And the elders of Moab, and those greater by birth of Midian, continued on, holding the price of divination in their hands. And when they had come to Balaam, and had explained to him all the words of Balak,

⁸  he responded, 'Remain for this night, and I will answer with whatever the Lord will say to me.' And while they stayed with Balaam, God came and said to him,

⁹  'What do these men want with you?'

¹⁰  He responded, 'Balak, the son of Zippor, the king of the Moabites has sent to me,