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11 So now run away to your place. I said I would give you much honor, but the Lord has kept you from honor.” 12 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell the men you had sent to me, 13 ‘Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot do anything against the Word of the Lord’? I said, ‘I cannot do good or bad because I want to. What the Lord says, I will say.’

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11 Now leave at once and go home!(A) I said I would reward you handsomely,(B) but the Lord has kept you from being rewarded.”

12 Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell the messengers you sent me,(C) 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(D)—and I must say only what the Lord says’?(E)

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