32 And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out (A)to oppose you because your way is perverse[a] before me.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 22:32 Or reckless

10 and said, “You (A)son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and (B)villainy, will you not stop (C)making crooked (D)the straight paths of the Lord?

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18 (A)Whoever (B)walks in integrity will be delivered,
    but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

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Balaam's Donkey and the Angel

22 But God's anger was kindled because he went, (A)and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way (B)as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.

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(A)Better is a poor man who (B)walks in his integrity
    than a rich man who is (C)crooked in his ways.

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Whoever (A)walks in uprightness fears the Lord,
    but he who is (B)devious in his ways despises him.

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14 They have eyes full of adultery,[a] (A)insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts (B)trained in greed. (C)Accursed children! 15 Forsaking the right way, (D)they have gone astray. They have followed (E)the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved (F)gain from wrongdoing,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:14 Or eyes full of an adulteress

O my people, remember (A)what Balak king of Moab devised,
    and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from (B)Shittim to Gilgal,
    that you may know (C)the righteous acts of the Lord.”

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11 And should not I pity (A)Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much (B)cattle?”

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He (A)gives to the beasts their food,
    and to (B)the young ravens that cry.

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The Lord is (A)good to all,
    and his mercy is over all that he has made.

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(A)Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
    (B)your judgments are like the great deep;
    man and beast you (C)save, O Lord.

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(A)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

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(A)because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they (B)hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of (C)Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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35 And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, (A)but speak only the word that I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

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28 Then the Lord (A)opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

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20 (A)And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; (B)but only do what I tell you.”

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(A)And (B)the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, (C)God called to him (D)out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; (E)take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” And he said, (F)“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for (G)he was afraid to look at God.

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