Numbers 24:13

24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond ¹  the commandment ²  of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, ³  but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?

Numbers 35:30

35:30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ⁴  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ⁵  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

Numbers 35:33

35:33 “You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

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¹ tn Heb “I am not able to go beyond.”

² tn Heb “mouth.”

³ tn Heb “from my heart.”

⁴ tn Heb “ at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

⁵ tn The verb should be given the nuance of imperfect of potentiality.