Numbers 22:15-22

15Balak again sent other dignitaries, more numerous and honored than these previous ones.

16They also came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: Please let nothing keep you from coming to me!

17I will richly reward you, and everything you tell me I will do! Just come now and curse this people for me!”

18But 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!

19But now, you may spend the night here, too. Then I may find out anything else Adonai may say to me.”

20God 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!”

21So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the Moabite princes.

22But 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—