32 Then Jehovah’s angel said to him: “Why have you beaten your she-ass these three times? Look! I—I have come out to offer resistance, because your way has been headlong* against my will.+

5 And Jehovah* your God did not want to listen to Baʹlaam;+ but Jehovah your God in your behalf changed the malediction into a blessing,+ because Jehovah your God loved you.+

15 Abandoning the straight path, they have been misled. They have followed the path of Baʹlaam,+ [the son] of Beʹor, who loved the reward of wrongdoing,+

14 “‘Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, that you have there those holding fast the teaching of Baʹlaam,+ who went teaching Baʹlak+ to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.+