⁴¹ And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.

¹³ And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there.

²⁸ For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

² For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

³ So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

² You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

¹⁵ And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

³⁵ And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.