³⁹ Then Balaam went with Balak to Kiriath Huzoth.

⁴⁰ Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep,^(A) and gave some to Balaam and the officials who were with him.

Balaam’s First Message

23 Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams^(A) for me.” ² Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.^(B)

³ Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me.^(C) Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.

¹⁴ So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah,^(A) and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.^(B)

²⁹ Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”