What Is Ass in the Bible?
Food
A donkey.
A detail
- In the Bible: Moses put his wife and his sons on an ass to go back to Egypt.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 22:5; Exodus 4:20
What the Bible says
Genesis 22:5
And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass: I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.
Exodus 4:20
Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “jumento”