²⁸ Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth,^(A) and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?^(B)”

¹³ ‘Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the Lord^(A)—and I must say only what the Lord says’?^(B)