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Balak, king of Moab, invites the prophet Balaam to come and curse the Israelites for him. Against God‘s warning, Balaam departs, but God places an angel in Balaam’s way. When his donkey swerves from the road, Balaam beats it with his stick. God allows the donkey to speak and allows Balaam to see the angel, and Balaam bows down to the ground.
Coastal Landscape with Balaam and the Ass (1636 painting by Bartholomeus Breenbergh). Balak (בָּלָק —Hebrew for "Balak," a name, the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 40th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Numbers.
The angel then stationed himself on a narrow spot that allowed no room to swerve right or left, and the donkey lay down under Balaam, and Balaam became furious and beat the ass with his stick. Then God allowed the donkey to speak, and she complained to Balaam. And then God allowed Balaam to see the angel, and Balaam bowed down to the ground.
Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836. Balaam (/ ˈ b eɪ l æ m /; [1] Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, romanized: Bīlʿām), son of Beor, [2] was a biblical figure, a non-Israelite prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have been located between the region of Iraq and northern Syria in what is now southeastern Turkey.
Balak tried to engage Balaam the son of Beor for the purpose of cursing the migrating Israelite community. [2] On his journey to meet the princes of Moab, Balaam is stopped by an angel of the Lord after beating his female donkey. The Lord then "opened the mouth of the donkey" to tell him there was an angel with a drawn sword facing him.
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The text is difficult to read and to interpret. [12] Here is one reconstruction and translation of the first combination: [13] [This is] the book of [Ba]laam, [son of Beo]r, a seer of the gods. To him came the gods at night. [And they spoke to] him; according to the utterance of El, and they spoke to [Bala]am, son of Beor, thus: [ ...