BRAGADAYJAH 462
So the high ranking emissaries of Balak returned to Balaam and
made known to him their King’s offer and his desire to have Balaam accompany
them back to the King’s domain so that he might curse the children of Israel
for him.
Then Balaam answered them and told them that even Balak were to
give him his house full of silver and gold, he could not go against his Lord God
to do neither small nor great. But notwithstanding Balaam’s personal knowledge
and conviction that what he was being asked to do was not only morally wrong
but physically impossible, the lure of riches was too great o dismiss out of
hand; so again he invited the visitors to spend the night at his house while
yet again he consulted with the Lord.
Now the Lord spoke to Balaam in the night and told him when the
visitors call him in the morning, he was to go with them; but the words which
he should say to them were the words the Lord told him to say. So Balaam got up
early in the morning and saddled his ass and departed with the princes of Moab.
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