Devine Scripture

Numbers 22:33

Numbers chapter 22 · verse 33 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.

Context

v.32And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me:

v.33This passage

v.34And Balaam said unto the angel of Jehovah, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 14:37

    even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

  • 1 Kings 13:24

    And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.

  • Numbers 16:33

    So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.