¹² And he answered and said, ^(A)“Must I not take care to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

³⁸ Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? ^(A)The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”

^13 (A)‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad ^(B)of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?

²⁶ But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ^(A)‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”