Then Balaam said to Balak, 'Stay here beside your burnt offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you.' So he went to a bare height — Balaam removes himself from the ritual site to a secluded location. He explains that he will wait for the LORD to meet him and reveal what he should say. The removal suggests private communion with God; the prophecy is not mechanical but requires divine encounter. Balaam's openness to God's direction is presented as sincere.

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