³ And Balaam said unto Balak, “Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.” And he went to a high place.

⁴ And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.”

⁵ And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.”