Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land [of plenty] flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, but you would also lord it over us?

and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels; must we bring you water out of this rock?”

Balaam answered, “Must I not be obedient and careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not say to you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?’”