Numeri 22:27

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Cumque vidisset asina stantem angelum, concidit sub pedibus sedentis: qui iratus, vehementius cædebat fuste latera ejus.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Bos, ovis et capra, cum genita fuerint, septem diebus erunt sub ubere matris suæ : die autem octavo, et deinceps, offerri poterunt Domino.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Cumque vidisset asina stantem angelum Domini, concidit sub pedibus sedentis; qui iratus vehementius caedebat fuste latera eius.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and Balaam's anger: Proverbs 14:16, Proverbs 27:3, Proverbs 27:4

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord,.... The third time; for it seems that he was not always in sight, but disappeared as he removed from place to place, and at every new place where he stood the ass saw him, though her master did not:

she fell down under Balaam; upon her knees on the ground, not being able to go backwards nor forwards, nor to turn out of the way to the right or left:

and Balaam's anger was kindled; he was displeased and out of humour before, when it turned into the field, and when it squeezed his foot against the wall, and therefore he smote it; but now falling down with him, he was in a fume and fury, quite enraged:

and he smote the ass with a staff; which he rode with, perhaps his divining staff, see Hosea 4:12, it is not said what he smote it with before but probably with the same: Aben Ezra says, at the first and second time he smote it with a small stick, or with a thong.