Bilam and the donkey, Anonymous, After Maerten de Vos, 1643 print Bilam urges his donkey and hits her with a club, but she is stopped by an angel with a sword. There are three fighters in the landscape behind Bilam. Under the performance a reference in Latin to the Bible text in Num. 22:21. Amsterdam paper engraving an angel holding a sword bars the way and causes Balaam's ass to turn aside; the angel is invisible to Balaam. Balaam strikes his ass, whereupon the ass lies down and starts to speak

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