³⁵ Then the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, ^(A)but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

⁵ Then the Lord ^(A)put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

¹² So he answered and said, ^(A)“Must I not take heed to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”

¹⁶ Then the Lord met Balaam, and ^(A)put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

²⁶ So Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ^(A)‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do’?”

¹³ ‘If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the Lord, to do good or bad of my own will. What the Lord says, that I must speak’?