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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 character, 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, 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.
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.
However, God tells Balaam not to curse them, and when Balaam attempts to travel to Balak with the Moabite officials God sends an angel to stop his donkey. Realising that he cannot curse the Israelites, Balaam blesses them instead, and foresees a figure whom he identifies as 'the Star of Jacob' who will defeat Israel's enemies. This angers Balak ...
The excavation revealed a multiple-chamber structure that had been destroyed by an earthquake during the Persian period, on the wall of which was written a story relating visions of Bal'am, son of Be'or, a "seer of the gods", who may be the same Balaam son of Be'or mentioned in Numbers 22–24 and in other passages of the Bible.
Balaam and the Ass is a 1626 painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, dating from his time in Leiden and now in the Musée Cognacq-Jay in Paris. The painting portrays the biblical account of the talking ass debating with diviner Balaam .
Laban first appears in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 24:29–60 as the grown spokesman for his father Bethuel's house; he was impressed by the gold jewelry given to his sister on behalf of Isaac, and played a key part in arranging their marriage. Twenty years later, Laban's nephew Jacob was born to Isaac and Rebekah.