7 So the elders of Moʹab and the elders of Midʹi·an traveled with the fee for divination in their hands and went to Baʹlaam+ and conveyed to him Baʹlak’s message.

2 for they had not met the Israelites with bread and water, but instead they had hired Baʹlaam against them to curse them.+ However, our God had changed the curse into a blessing.+