“Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 22 contains 41 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.