So now, let the power of my Lord ¹  be great, just as you have said,

But now we ¹  are dried up, ²  and there is nothing at all before us ³  except this manna!”

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.”

Now therefore kill every boy, ¹  and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man. ² 

Now therefore, please stay ¹  the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.” ² 

And now, I am about to go ¹  back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.” ² 

So ¹  now, please come and curse this nation ²  for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them ³  and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, ⁴  and whoever you curse is cursed.”

Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. ¹  So now, if it is evil in your sight, ²  I will go back home.” ³