Numbers 22:32-34

English Standard Version

³² And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out ^(A)to oppose you because your way is perverse^[a] before me. ³³ The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live.” ³⁴ Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, ^(B)“I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”