Numbers 22:32

World English Bible (2000)

The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:

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  • Num 22:22 : 22 God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
  • Num 22:28 : 28 Yahweh 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?"
  • Num 22:35 : 35 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
  • Deut 23:4 : 4 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
  • Deut 25:4 : 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
  • Ps 145:9 : 9 Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
  • Ps 147:9 : 9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
  • Prov 14:2 : 2 He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
  • Prov 28:6 : 6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
  • Prov 28:18 : 18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
  • Jonah 4:11 : 11 Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"
  • Mic 6:5 : 5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
  • Exod 3:2-6 : 2 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." 4 When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am." 5 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." 6 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
  • Num 22:20 : 20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

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  • Num 22:17-31
    15 verses
    89%

    17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'"

    18Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

    19Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more."

    20God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

    21Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

    22God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

    23The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.

    24Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

    25The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.

    26The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

    27The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

    28Yahweh 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?"

    29Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."

    30The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?" He said, "No."

    31Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

  • Num 22:33-35
    3 verses
    87%

    33and the 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 said to the angel of Yahweh, "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."

    35The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  • 2 Pet 2:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

    16but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

  • Num 24:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

    11Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor."

    12Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,

  • Num 23:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."

    16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."

    17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

  • Num 23:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."

    12He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"

  • Num 22:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."

    13Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you."

  • 1 Kgs 13:27
    71%

    27He spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." They saddled it.

  • Num 23:5
    71%

    5Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

  • Num 23:7
    70%

    7He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

  • Deut 23:4
    70%

    4because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

  • Num 23:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'"

    27Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there."

  • Num 24:3
    70%

    3He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

  • Exod 23:5
    70%

    5If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

  • Num 24:1
    70%

    1When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

  • Num 23:3
    70%

    3Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.

  • Num 22:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

    6Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

  • Num 22:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"

    10Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],

  • Gen 22:3
    69%

    3Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

  • 1 Kgs 13:13
    69%

    13He said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.

  • Num 24:15
    69%

    15He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

  • Num 31:16
    69%

    16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 13:24
    69%

    24When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

  • 2 Sam 19:27
    69%

    27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.