Numbers 22:31-33

Good News Translation

³¹ Then the Lord let Balaam see the angel standing there with his sword; and Balaam threw 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.^{[a] 33} But your donkey saw me and turned aside three times. If it hadn't, I would have killed you and spared the donkey.”