Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

Balaam replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”

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

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

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

Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the Lord my God to do less or more.