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Numbers 22:33
Numbers 22:33 is verse 33 of Numbers chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now I would surely have killed you and let her live.”
King James Version
And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
World English Bible
The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”
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Numbers 22:31–35 · Berean Standard Bible
31 Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.
32 The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
33 The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now I would surely have killed you and let her live.”
34 “I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
35 But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 14:37those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
Numbers 16:33They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
Numbers 16:34At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”
Numbers 16:35And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
1 Kings 13:24As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
1 Kings 13:25And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.
1 Kings 13:26When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
1 Kings 13:27Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it,
1 Kings 13:28and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.