13 So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your own land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.” 14 So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”

15 Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than these. 16 And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Let nothing hinder you from coming to me, 17 ^sfor I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. ^tCome, curse this people for me.’” 18 But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, ^u“Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, ^vI could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more. 19 So you, too, ^wplease stay here tonight, that I may know what more the Lord will say to me.” 20 ^qAnd God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; ^xbut only do what I tell you.”