So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars there, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar — Balak takes Balaam to Pisgah, a different elevated location with another partial view of Israel's camp. Again, seven altars and seven sacrifices are prepared. The ritual is repeated, suggesting that Balak hopes repetition will produce a different result. Pisgah will later be the site from which Moses views the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 3:27); it is a threshold place, a site of vision and boundary.

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