Numbers 23:26

23:26 But Balaam replied ¹  to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, ²  I must do’?”

Numbers 32:31

32:31 Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken. ³ 

Numbers 35:30

35:30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ⁴  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ⁵  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

[23:26]  ¹ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[23:26]  ² tn This first clause, “all that the Lord speaks” – is a noun clause functioning as the object of the verb that comes at the end of the verse. It is something of an independent accusative case, since it is picked up with the sign of the accusative: “all that the Lord speaks, it I must do.”

[32:31]  ³ tn Heb “that which the Lord has spoken to your servants, thus we will do.”

[35:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

[35:30]  ⁶ tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.