Sorcery: Practiced by Balaam

So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”

For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”