Old TestamentNumbers 22·Balaam's Talking Donkey
Numbers 22:22–35

Balaam's Talking Donkey

An angel with a drawn sword blocks the road, invisible to the prophet but seen by his donkey. The donkey stops, turns aside, and crushes Balaam's foot against a wall — absorbing three beatings — until God opens the animal's mouth and it rebukes its master. Only then does Balaam see the angel who would have killed him.

— Lectio —

Balaam's Talking Donkey

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The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

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