Numbers 22:6-8

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⁶ Come and help me. These people are too powerful for me. I know that you have great power. If you bless people, good things happen to them. And if you curse people, bad things happen to them. So come and curse these people. Maybe then I will be able to defeat them and force them to leave my country.”

⁷ The leaders of Moab and Midian left. They went to talk to Balaam. They carried with them money to pay him for his service.^[a] Then they told him what Balak had said.

⁸ Balaam said to them, “Stay here for the night. I will talk to the Lord and tell you the answer he gives me.” So the leaders of Moab stayed there with Balaam that night.