Bilam Tells Balak's Envoys He Will Not Defy the LORD's Word

Midrash Aggadah, Numbers 22:19

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"And now, please stay here this night" (Numbers 22:19). Bilam said to them: "I will know what more the LORD will speak with me" — if He should wish that I go with you, and if not. And let Balak reckon to himself that, even if he honors me as he said to me — that is to say, that I should set aside the command of the LORD my God — it is not that I am unable to curse them, for I am able, but I do not wish to transgress His word.

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