No Duh

That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you." Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite officials. But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat her to get her back on the road. Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between two vineyards, with walls on both sides. When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against it. So he beat her again. Then the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left. When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat her with his staff. Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?" Balaam answered the donkey, "You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now." The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?" "No," he said.-Numbers 22:20-30(NIV)***Approximately 600,000 Israelite men, and an additional number of Israelite women and children, and an unspecified number of people who were not Israelites, were led away from Egyptian slavery and Egypt by Moses and his older brother Aaron. Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, across the divinely parted Red Sea and through the desert wilderness Shur, the desert wilderness of Sin, the desert wilderness of Sinai, the desert wilderness of Paran, and the desert wilderness of Zin, according to the commands of the Lord God. The Israelites fought and defeated the Amalekites, and the Canaanites of Arad, and King Sihon and the Amorites, and gigantic King Og and his kingdom. When the Israelites arrived near the region of the Moabites, King Balak grew fearful, and made an agreement with the Midianites. Balak and the Midianites sent messengers to Balaam, a person known for being capable of pronouncing blessings or curses. Balaam told the messengers to wait overnight until he heard from the Lord God. The Lord God told Balaam not to go with the messengers. Another group of messengers was sent to Balaam. The Lord God gave Balaam permission to leave with them, and the Lord God gave Balaam a specific command. Balaam left with the messengers, although Balaam's leaving was not entirely in accordance with the words spoken by the Lord God. Sometime thereafter, the Israelites killed Balaam and other enemies, according to the command of the Lord God. During the 40th year of their journey to Canaan, the Promised Land,  123-year-old Aaron the high priest died upon Mount Hor, and Moses went upon Mount Nebo. The Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses the prophet died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' aide and successor from the tribe of Ephraim, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy 1:1-13:18, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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