16. They came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor, ‘Please, let nothing keep you from coming to me
17. because I will surely honor you greatly, and all that you say to me I will do. Please, come; curse this people for me.’ ”
18. Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Even though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond the command of Yahweh my God to do a little or a lot.
19. And now please, you also stay here the night, and let me find out again what Yahweh will say with me.”
20. And God came to Balaam at night, and he said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but only the word that I will speak to you, you will do.”
21. So Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he went with the princes of Moab.
22. But God became angry because he was going, and the angel of Yahweh stood in the road as an adversary to him; he was riding on his donkey, and two servants were with him.
23. The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road.
24. The angel of Yahweh stood in the narrow path of the vineyards, with a wall on either side.
25. When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she pressed herself into the wall, and she pressed the foot of Balaam into the wall, so he struck her again.
26. Then the angel of Yahweh went further ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was not a way to turn aside to the right or left.