¹⁸ And Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “^(A)Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small or great, to trespass the ^[a]command of Yahweh my God.

¹³ ‘Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything to trespass the ^[a]command of Yahweh, either good or bad, ^(A)of my own ^[b]accord. ^(B)What Yahweh speaks, that I will speak’?

¹⁶ And he said, “^(A)I cannot return with you, nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place. ¹⁷ For a word came to me ^(B)by the word of Yahweh, ‘You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way which you came.’”