So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each ¹  altar a bull and a ram.

Then the Lord put a message ¹  in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.” ² 

And God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness. ¹ 

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you may only speak ¹  the word that I will speak to you.” ²  So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

And when the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he beat her again. ¹ 

Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,

But God said to Balaam, “You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, ¹  for they are blessed.” ² 

So the princes of Moab departed ¹  and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some ¹  to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all ¹  nor bless them at all!” ² 

But Balaam replied ¹  to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, ²  I must do’?”

Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, ¹  and Balak also went his way.

The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, ¹  along with the others. ² 

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept ¹  prophesying good things about ²  you, and I rescued you from his power. ³ 

So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.