Discovery BoxNumbers 21:22 
Context21:22 “Let us 1 pass through your land; 2 we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”
Numbers 22:23
Context22:23 And the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with 3 his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road.
1 tn The Hebrew text uses the singular in these verses to match the reference to “Israel.”
2 tc Smr has “by the King’s way I will go. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.”
3 tn The word has the conjunction “and” on the noun, indicating this is a disjunctive vav (ו), here serving as a circumstantial clause.
