³ And Balaam said to Balak, Stand·​·forth over thy burnt·​·offering, and I will go; perhaps Jehovah will happen to meet me: and what word He shows me I will tell thee. And he went to a slope.

² And the third leader on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man^◦ of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make floodgates in the heavens, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, and shalt not eat thereof.