Numbers 23:5 CPDV

³  And Balaam said to Balak: 'Stand for a little while next to your holocaust, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet with me. And whatever he will command, I shall speak to you.'

⁴  And after he had quickly departed, God met with him. And Balaam, speaking to him, said: 'I have set up seven altars, and I have placed a calf and a ram on each.'

⁵  Then the Lord placed the word in his mouth, and he said: 'Return to Balak, and you shall say this.'

⁶  Returning, he found Balak standing next to his holocaust, with all the leaders of the Moabites.

⁷  And taking up his parable, he said: 'Balak, king of the Moabites, has led me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. 'Come forth,' he said, 'and curse Jacob. Hurry and condemn Israel.'