When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

Balaam replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”

With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. Thus he spoke to him.