17. I will richly reward you, and everything you tell me I will do! Just come now and curse this people for me!”
18. But Balaam answered Balak’s servants, “Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot cross beyond the mouth of Adonai my God, to do anything small or great!
19. But now, you may spend the night here, too. Then I may find out anything else Adonai may say to me.”
20. God came to Balaam by night and said to him, “Since the men came to you to summon you, arise and go with them. However, only the word I tell you are you to do!”
21. So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the Moabite princes.
22. But the anger of God burned because he was going. The angel of Adonai stood in the road to oppose him—he was riding on his donkey and two of his servants were with him—