15 They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path(A) and have followed the path of Balaam,(B) the son of Bosor,(a) who loved the wages of unrighteousness(C) 16 but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.(D)

Footnotes:

a. 2 Peter 2:15: Other mss read Beor

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