The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”
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The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”
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And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
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And the ass said unto Balaam: 'Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?' And he said: 'Nay.'
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Passages linked to Numbers 22:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Peter 2:16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
- 1 Corinthians 1:27-28 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Since thou hast been my master.
Since thou hast been my master.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the ass saw me, and turned from me…
And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times,.... The ass saw the angel when Balaam did not, and that was the reason of its turning aside; and it was well for him it did, and therefore he should not have smote it:
unless she had turned from me; if she had pushed on, endeavouring to make her way:
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surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive; had certainly and only slain him, and not the ass; and from hence the Jewish writers (t) gather, that the ass was now slain, lest it should be said, this is the ass that spoke, and so be made an idol of.
(t) Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 20. fol. 227. 4. Aben Ezra in loc.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 30. Unto this day — Several versions add, from…
30. Unto this day — Several versions add, from thy boyhood.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 30. The ass is not represented as uttering any…
30. The ass is not represented as uttering any deep teaching or giving him a message from God. She merely defends herself against the charge of making sport of him; had he ever known her do such a thing during all the years he had owned her?
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (30) Ever since I was thine.—Literally, ever since thou…
(30) Ever since I was thine.—Literally, ever since thou livedst,—i.e., all thy life long. The Targums of Jonathan and of Jerusalem paraphrase thus—“upon which thou hast ridden from thy youth unto this day.” “An Arabic writer,” says Dr. Gill, in his Commentary, in loc., “makes mention of an ass that the owner rode on forty years.”
Unto this day.—The use of these words in this place serves to throw light upon such passages as Deu_3:14, “called them after his own name . . . unto this day,” and shows that they do not necessarily denote that the events to which reference is made were separated by any very long interval.
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