⁴ God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

¹⁶ Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.

⁹ not of works, that no one would boast.

²⁷ Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

² They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

¹² I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

¹² saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

³ Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

⁴ Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

¹ Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.

²⁰ God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.

⁹ God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?