²⁶ But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?

¹⁸ Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

³⁸ Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

¹² He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?

¹³ Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.

¹² Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,

¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?

¹⁴ Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.

¹³ Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

²⁰ for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.