You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> and obey them and so that you do not follow<n id="1" /> after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.<n id="2" />

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives,<n id="1" /> they must be made<n id="2" /> into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the <sc>Lordsc> and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Balaam replied<n id="1" /> to the servants of Balak, &#8220;Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> my God<n id="3" /> to do less or more.

God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, &#8220;If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.&#8221;

The donkey said to Balaam, &#8220;Am not I your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted<n id="1" /> to treat you this way?&#8221;<n id="2" /> And he said, &#8220;No.&#8221;

&#8216;If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond<n id="1" /> the commandment<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> to do either good or evil of my own will,<n id="3" /> but whatever the <sc>Lordsc> tells me I must speak&#8217;?

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the <sc>Lordsc> for seven days.

If a man<n id="1" /> makes a vow<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> or takes an oath<n id="3" /> of binding obligation on himself,<n id="4" /> he must not break his word, but must do whatever he has promised.<n id="5" />p>