Mínshùjì 22:33

33 Lü kànjian wǒ jiù sān cì cóng wǒ miànqián piān guō qù . lü ruò méiyǒu piān guō qù , wǒ zǎo bǎ nǐ shā le , liú tā cún huó .

Mínshùjì 22:33 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 22:33

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:

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

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 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.

F20 Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 20. fol. 227. 4. Aben Ezra in loc.

Mínshùjì 22:33 In-Context

31 Dāngshí , Yēhéhuá shǐ Bālán de yǎnmù míngliàng , tā jiù kànjian Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ zhàn zaì lù shàng , shǒu lǐ yǒu bá chūlai de dāo , Bālán biàn dī tóu fǔfú zaì dì .

32 Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ duì tā shuō , nǐ wèihé zhè sān cì dá nǐde lü ne , wǒ chūlai dídǎng nǐ , yīn nǐ suǒ xíng de , zaì wǒ miànqián piān pì .

33 Lü kànjian wǒ jiù sān cì cóng wǒ miànqián piān guō qù . lü ruò méiyǒu piān guō qù , wǒ zǎo bǎ nǐ shā le , liú tā cún huó .

34 Bālán duì Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ shuō , wǒ yǒu zuì le . wǒ bú zhīdào nǐ zhàn zaì lù shàng zǔdǎng wǒ . nǐ ruò bú xǐhuan wǒ qù , wǒ jiù zhuǎn huí .

35 Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ duì Bālán shuō , nǐ tóng zhèxie rén qù ba . nǐ zhǐyào shuō wǒ duì nǐ shuō de huà . yúshì Bālán tóng zhe bā lè de shǐ chén qù le .