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Numbers 22:7-30

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7And the elders of Moab and of Midian went, with the (price of) divinations in their hands, and came to Bileam, and told him the words of Balak.
8And he said to them, Lodge here for the night, and I will return you word, according as the Lord speaketh with me. And the princes of Moab tarried with Bileam.
9And a word from before the Lord came unto Bileam, and said, Who are these men who are with thee?
10And Bileam said before the Lord, Balak bar Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent to me.
11Behold, a people are come out of Mizraim, and hide the glance of the sun from the earth. Now come, curse him for me, that I may be able to fight him, and drive him away.
12And the Lord said to Bileam, Thou shalt not go with them: thou shalt not curse the people, for he is blessed.
13And Bileam arose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Go back to your country; for it is not pleasing before the Lord to permit me to go with you.
14And the princes of Moab arose and came to Balak, and said, Bileam refuseth to come with us.
15But Balak added to send princes more (in number) and nobler than those.
16And they came to Bileam, and said to him: Thus saith Balak bar Zippor: Be not, I beseech thee, hindered from coming to me;
17For I will greatly honour thee with honour, and will do all that thou shalt bid me. Come, then, curse me this people.
18Bileam responded, and said to the servants of Balak: If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I have no power to transgress the decree of the Word of the Lord my God, to do either little or great.
19But now I beg you tarry here this night, that I may know what yet the Lord will speak unto me.
20And word came from before the Lord unto Bileam by night, and said to him: If the men come to call thee, arise and go with them; nevertheless the word that I speak with thee, that thou shalt do.
21And Bileam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
22But the displeasure of the Lord was provoked because he (so) went; and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to withstand him: and he was riding upon his ass, and his two young men with him.
23And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass started aside from the road, and went into the field. And Bileam struck the ass to make her to return into the road.
24And the angel of the Lord (again) stood in the way of the vineyards in a place where there was a fence here and a fence there.
25And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord, and thrust herself to the wall, and drave Bileam’s foot against the wall; and he smote her again.
26And the angel of the Lord yet passed on, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn to the right or to the left.
27And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord, and fell down under Bileam; and Bileam’s wrath was provoked, and he smote the ass with his staff.
28And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass; and she spake to Bileam, What have I done to thee that thou bast smitten me these three times?
29And Bileam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: would that there was a sword in my hand! For now would I kill thee.
30And the ass said to Bileam, Am I not thy ass, upon whom thou hast ridden from (the time that) I have been thine unto this day? Have I ever been used to do thus to thee? And he said, No.

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