²⁴ At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses^[a] and was about to kill^(A) him.

¹⁴ Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised^(A) in the flesh, will be cut off from his people;^(B) he has broken my covenant.^(C)”

²² But God was very angry^(A) when he went, and the angel of the Lord^(B) stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. ²³ When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword^(C) in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it^(D) to get it back on the road.

¹⁶ David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.^(A)

³ Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke of when he said:

Aaron remained silent.

¹⁸ “The elders of Israel will listen^(A) to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,^(B) has met^(C) with us. Let us take a three-day journey^(D) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices^(E) to the Lord our God.’

²⁴ As he went on his way, a lion^(A) met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

²⁷ At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey,^(A) and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.^(B)