11 ‘Look! The people who are coming out of Egypt, and they go covering the earth as far as the eye can see.+ Now do come, do execrate them for me.+ Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and I shall actually drive them out.’”

10 At that Baʹlak’s anger blazed against Baʹlaam and he clapped his hands,+ and Baʹlak went on to say to Baʹlaam: “It was to execrate+ my enemies that I called you, and, look! you have blessed them to the limit these three times.

10 And I did not want to listen to Baʹlaam.+ Consequently he blessed YOU repeatedly.+ Thus I delivered YOU out of his hand.+

2 for they had not met the sons of Israel with bread+ and with water,+ but went hiring against them Baʹlaam+ to call down evil upon them.+ However, our God changed the malediction into a benediction.+

5 O my people, remember,+ please, what Baʹlak the king of Moʹab counseled,+ and what Baʹlaam the son of Beʹor answered him.+ From Shitʹtim*+ it was, all the way to Gilʹgal,+ to the intent that the righteous acts of Jehovah might be known.”+