Numbers 22:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁰ Balaam said to God, ‘King Balak son of Zippor of Moab has sent me this message: ¹¹ “A people has come out of Egypt and has spread over the face of the earth; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.”’ ¹² God said to Balaam, ‘You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.’