Numbers 24:11-13

24:11 So now, go back where you came from! ¹  I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”

24:12 Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, 24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond ²  the commandment ³  of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, ⁴  but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?

[24:11]  ¹ tn Heb “flee to your place.”

[24:13]  ² tn Heb “I am not able to go beyond.”

[24:13]  ³ tn Heb “mouth.”

[24:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “from my heart.”