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A donkey with plain pack gear has its mouth open against a dark landscape.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

2 Peter 2:16

Rebuke from a Mute Beast

False Promises, Rescue, and Certain Judgment · 2 Peter 2

Story guide: Visual essay interpretation. The donkey evokes the explicitly named speaking beast; the picture cannot reproduce its voice and invents no dialogue.

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16But he received a rebuke for his own transgression: a mute beast of burden, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness.

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