¹² And Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

¹⁸ But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, ^(A)“Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, ^(B)I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more.

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.”