‘How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwelling places, O Israel!

So Moses said to them, “Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?

Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. How long will Asshur take you away captive?”

and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?”

Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.”

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”

When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”

For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘Look at what God has done!’

The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.