19.But please spend the night, as the others did, so that I may learn whatever or not the Lord has something else o tell me." 20.That night God came to Balaam and said, "If these men have come to ask you to go with you them, get ready 21.So the next morning Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite leaders. 22.God was angry that Balaam was going, and as Balaam was riding along on his donkey, accompanied by his two servants, the angel of the Lord stood in the road to bar his way. 23.When the donkey saw the angel standing there holding a sword, it left the road and turned into the fileds. Balaam beat the donkey and brought it back onto the road. 24.Then angel stood where the road narrowed between two vineyards and had a stone wall on each side. 25.When the donkey saw the angel , it moved over against the wall and crushed the balaam's foot against it. Again Balaam beat the donkey . 26.Once more the angel moved ahead: he stood in a narrow place where there was no room at all to pass on either side. 27.This time, when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down. Balaam lost his temper and began to beat the donkey with his stick. 28.Then the Lord gave the donkey the power of speech, and it said to Balaam, "What have I done to you? Why have you beaten me these three times?" 29.Balaam answered, "Becaue you have made a fool of me! "If I had a sword, I would kill you." 30.The donkey replied, "Am I not the same donkey on which you have ridden all your life? Have I ever treated you like this before?" "No," he answered. 31.Then the Lord let Balaam see the angel standing there with his sword; and Balaam throw himself face downward on the ground. 32.The angel demanded, "Why have you beaten your donkey three times like this? I have come to bar your way, because you should not be making this journey. 33.But your donkey saw me and turned aside three times. If it hadn't I would have killed you and spared the donkey ." 34.Balaam replied, "I have sinned. I did not know that you were standing in the road to oppose me; but nowif you think it is wrong for me to go on, I will return home." 35.But the angel said, "Go on with these men, but say only what I tell you to say." So Balaam went on with them. 36.When Balaam heard that Balaam was coming, he went to meet him at Ar, a city on the Arnon River at the border of Moab. 37.Balak said to him, "Why didn't you come when I sent for you the first time? Did you think I wasn't able to reward you enough?" 38.Balaam answered, "I came, didn't I? But now, what power do I have? I can say only what God tells me to say." 39.So Balaam went with Balak to the town of Huzoth, 40.where Balak slaughtered cattle and sheep and gave some of the meat to Balaam and the leaders who were with him. 41.The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Baal, from where Balaam could see a part of the people of Israel.
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