Numbers 22:32

New American Bible - revised edition

But the angel of the Lord said to him: “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come as an adversary because this rash journey of yours is against my will.

Cross References

Acts 13:10

and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, full of every sort of deceit and fraud. Will you not stop twisting the straight paths of [the] Lord?

Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks blamelessly is safe, but one whose ways are crooked falls into a pit.

Numbers 22:22

But now God’s anger flared up at him for going, and the angel of the Lord took up a position on the road as his adversary. As Balaam was riding along on his donkey, accompanied by two of his servants,

Proverbs 28:6

Better to be poor and walk in integrity than rich and crooked in one’s ways.

Proverbs 14:2

Those who walk uprightly fear the Lord, but those who are devious in their ways spurn him.

Micah 6:5

My people, remember what Moab’s King Balak planned, and how Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him. Recall the passage from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the just deeds of the Lord.

Jonah 4:11

And should I not be concerned over the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot know their right hand from their left, not to mention all the animals?”

Psalm 147:9

Who gives animals their food and young ravens what they cry for.

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, compassionate toward all your works.

Psalm 36:6

Lord, your mercy reaches to heaven; your fidelity, to the clouds.

Deuteronomy 25:4

You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out grain. Levirate Marriage.

Deuteronomy 23:4

No Ammonite or Moabite may ever come into the assembly of the Lord, nor may any of their descendants even to the tenth generation come into the assembly of the Lord,

Numbers 22:35

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam: “Go with the men; but you may say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 22:28

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she asked Balaam, “What have I done to you that you beat me these three times?”

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said to him: If these men have come to summon you, go back with them; yet only on the condition that you do exactly as I tell you.

Numbers 22:33

When the donkey saw me, she turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away from me, you are the one I would have killed, though I would have spared her.”

Proverbs 16:2

All one’s ways are pure in one’s own eyes, but the measurer of motives is the Lord.