Numbers 22:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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.’ ¹³ So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the officials of Balak, ‘Go to your own land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.’