Numbers 23:26-28

Expanded Bible

²⁶ Balaam answered Balak, “·I told [^LDid I not tell…?] you before that I can only do what the Lord tells me.”

Balaam’s Third Message

²⁷ Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, I will take you to another place. Maybe ·God will be pleased [^Lit will be right in the eyes/sight of God] to let you curse them from there.” ²⁸ So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, the mountain that looks over the ·desert [wasteland; or Jeshimon].