Numbers 23:3-12 And Balaam said vnto Balac: Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go, if happly the Lorde will meete me: and whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I wyll tell thee. And he went vp hyer

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ And Balaam said vnto Balac: Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go, if happly the Lorde will meete me: and whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I wyll tell thee. And he went vp hyer ⁴ But God met Balaam, & [Balaam] sayd vnto hym: I haue prepared seuen aulters, and haue offred vpon euery aulter an oxe and a ramme ⁵ And the Lorde put a saying in Balaams mouth, and sayde: Go agayne to Balac, and say on this wyse ⁶ And when he went agayne vnto him, lo, he stoode by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the lordes of Moab ⁷ And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Balac the king of Moab hath brought me fro Mesopotamia, out of the mountaynes of the east, [saying] Come, curse Iacob for my sake, come and defie Israel ⁸ Howe shall I curse hym, whom God hath not cursed? or howe shall I defie hym, whom God hath not defied ⁹ For from the toppe of the rockes I see hym, and from the hylles I beholde hym: lo, the people shall dwell by them selues, and shal not be reckened among the nations ¹⁰ Who can tell the dust of Iacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? I pray God that my soule may dye the death of the righteous, and that my last ende may be like his ¹¹ And Balac sayd vnto Balaam: What hast thou done vnto me? I toke thee to curse myne enemies, and beholde thou hast blessed them altogether ¹² He aunswered and sayd: Must I not take heede to speake that whiche the lorde hath put in my mouth