The misfortunes of the Book of Balaam, son of Beor. A divine seer was he.
The gods came to him at night and he beheld a vision in accordance with El’s utterance.
They said to Balaam, son of Beor: “So will it be done, with naught surviving. No one has seen [the likes of] what you have heard!”
Balaam arose on the morrow; he summoned the heads of the assembly to him, and for two days he fasted, and wept bitterly…