10 Baʹlaam said to the true God: “Baʹlak the son of Zipʹpor, the king of Moʹab, has sent me a message, saying, 11 ‘Look! The people who are coming out of Egypt are covering the face* of the earth.* Now come and put a curse on them for me.+ Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”

11 Baʹlak then said to Baʹlaam: “What have you done to me? I brought you to put a curse on my enemies, and here you have done nothing but bless them.”+

13 On that day the book of Moses was read in the hearing of the people,+ and it was found written that no Amʹmon·ite or Moʹab·ite+ should ever enter the congregation of the true God,+ 2 for they had not met the Israelites with bread and water, but instead they had hired Baʹlaam against them to curse them.+ However, our God had changed the curse into a blessing.+