I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether. 023:012 He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth? 023:013 Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there. 023:014 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 023:015 He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder. 023:016 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak. 023:017 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken? 023:018 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor. 023:019 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? 023:020 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it. 023:021 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them. 023:022 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. 023:023 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done! 023:024 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain. 023:025 Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 023:026 But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do? 023:027 Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there. 023:028 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. 023:029 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 023:030 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 024:001 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 024:002 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.