38 At this Baʹlaam said to Baʹlak: “Here I have come to you now. Shall I be able at all to speak something?+ The word that God will place in my mouth is what I shall speak.”+

12 In turn he answered and said: “Is it not whatever Jehovah may put in my mouth that I should take care to speak?”+

13 ‘If Baʹlak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I should not be able to pass beyond the order of Jehovah so as to do something good or bad out of my own heart. Whatever Jehovah may speak is what I shall speak’?+