Balaam returned to Balak, and behold, he was standing by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the leaders of Moab.
Then the Lord put a speech in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.”
Balaam took up his [first] discourse (oracle) and said: “Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram (Syria), from the mountains of the east, [saying,] ‘Come, curse [the descendants of] Jacob for me; And come, [violently] denounce Israel.’
These are the [three] sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.