“Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more.”
That night God came to Balaam and said, 'If these men have come to call you, rise and go with them; but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall do' — God's response is unexpected: permission is granted. Balaam may go with Balak's messengers. Yet the permission carries a condition: 'only the word that I speak to you, that you shall do' (rak et-hadavar asher-adaber elcha ota taaseh). Balaam will go, but he will speak only what God tells him to speak. This condition will prove crucial; Balaam goes, expecting to curse, but will be constrained to bless.
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