Numbers 22:22 YLT

²⁰  And God cometh in unto Balaam, by night, and saith to him, 'If to call for thee the men have come, rise, go with them, and only the thing which I speak unto thee -- it thou dost do.'

²¹  And Balaam riseth in the morning, and saddleth his ass, and goeth with the princes of Moab,

²²  and the anger of God burneth because he is going, and a messenger of Jehovah stationeth himself in the way for an adversary to him, and he is riding on his ass, and two of his servants 'are' with him,

²³  and the ass seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, and his drawn sword in his hand, and the ass turneth aside out of the way, and goeth into a field, and Balaam smiteth the ass to turn it aside into the way.

²⁴  And the messenger of Jehovah standeth in a narrow path of the vineyards -- a wall on this 'side' and a wall on that --