15. Balak again sent other dignitaries, more numerous and honored than these previous ones.
16. They also came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: Please let nothing keep you from coming to me!
17. I will richly reward you, and everything you tell me I will do! Just come now and curse this people for me!”
18. But Balaam answered Balak’s servants, “Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot cross beyond the mouth of Adonai my God, to do anything small or great!