Numbers [In the desert] 22:30-40

³⁰The donkey said to Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”

³¹Then Adonai opened the eyes of Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people, and he saw ha mal'ak Yahweh the Angel of He sustains breathing standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

³²Ha mal'ak Yahweh The Angel of He sustains breathing said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

³³The donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”

³⁴Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people said to ha mal'ak Yahweh the Angel of He sustains breathing, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”

³⁵Ha mal'ak Yahweh The Angel of He sustains breathing said to Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people went with the princes of Balak.

³⁶When Balak sh'ma ·heard obeyed· that Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab From father, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

³⁷Balak said to Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”

³⁸Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.” (RY:6, LY:4)

³⁹Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.

⁴⁰Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people, and to the princes who were with him.