¹⁶ But he said, “I cannot return with you or go in with you, nor will I eat food or drink water with you in this place,^(A)

¹⁷ for it was said to me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall not eat food or drink water there or return by the way that you came.’ ”^(A)

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

¹³ ‘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 of my own will; what the Lord says, that is what I will say’?^(A)