Minbu 23

1 Chuin balaam’in jong Balak lengpa komma asei tan Pumgo thilto Maicham nato na ding mun-sagi nei bol peh tan chuleh bongchal sagi chule kelngoi chal sagi neigon tup peh tan ati.

And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

2 Balak in Balaam thupeh ho chu angaijin chu in achelhon tan, pumgo maicham asem lhon in bongchal nou ahin kelchal pumgo thil tona chunga akatdoh lhon tai.

And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.

3 Hichun Balaam min Balak komma hitin aseitan, hikom pumgo maicham kihal na ahin ana um ta din, keima Pathen in eiki hou lim pi hinam ti kaga kholchil ding, chuteng hiche ho chu nangma ka sei peh ding na hi ati. Hichun Balaam chu Molchung gei achangin akal tan ahi.

And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.

4 Hilai achun Pathen in Balaam akimupin a sei pehtai, “Kei man Mai-cham sagi ka bol tai, chuleh bongchal nou khat cheh le kelngoi chal khat cheh ka lhandoh tai ati.

And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.

5 Hichun Pathen in Balaam chu ahoulim pin Balak asei peh ding thu apen; Hijou chun Nangma nung che tan Balak heng lam ah hiche ka thu sei doh hohi sei peh tan, ati.

And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

6 Balaam chu a hung ki nung le tan ahi leh Balak lengpa chu Moab mi a milunho chu toh pumgo maicham lhan doh na muna ana ding kim tauve.

Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:

7 Hiche thucheng hohi Balaam in Balak dinga asei doh ho ahi.

And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.

8 Ahinlah, Pakaiyin a gaosap lou ho chu keiman iti ka gaosap ding ham? Pathen in themmo achan louho chu iti themmo ka chan ding ham ati.

How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?

9 Keiman molchunga pat kaven, amaho chu molvum apat hin kamu soh kei uve. Hiteho hi chidang nam dang te akon lhenchom ahiu kamu doh e.

I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10 Koiham Israel chilhah ho simjou ding chu, simseng lou neldi ja ahiuve. Israel mite chu koima chan simjou lou ding ahi. Keijong hiche nam thengho bang in um inting, amaho thi bang in thileng kati.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.

11 Hichun Balak Lengpan Balaam heng’a asei jin, Ipi neilo hitam? ka melma te gaosap dinga ka kou na hin ahinlah nang in Phatthei na boh jo tai ati

And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.

12 Ahinlah, Balaam chun a donbut in “Keiman vang Pathen in thu cheng ka lung thimma ei seipeh ho bou ka sei doh ding ahi bouve” ati.

He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

13 Hichun Balak Lengpan Balaam chu mun chomma akou kit in. Hilai’a khu nang in mi dang chi dang Israel nam chom khat aum in, amavang abonchauvin kati poi hiche a um ho beh khu nei gao sap peh in kati.

Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.

14 Balak chu Zophim kiti damchup aum Pisgah molchunga apui touvin Balaam in maicham phung-sagi a tung doh in hiche maicham phol chunga bongnou chal chuleh kelngoi khat chu akat doh tan ahi.

And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram,

15 Balaam in jong Balak lengpa komma aseitan, nangma hikomma ana um ta din phat chomkhat keima kaga potdoh ding Pathen in ipi ei houlimpi ding ham keima Pathen toh kihou lim’a pot doh ding ka hi.

He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.

16 Chule Pakaiyin akimupin aki houlimpi tan, hichun Pathen in Balak komma che in lang hi tin ki houlimpi in a thuhet ho chu hetsah tan, ati.

And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

17 Balaam chu akinung le phat in Balak lampi ahin Moab mite hochu toh maicham phol muna chun thanom tah le ngahlal tah in ana um un ahi. Balak in a dongtan Pathen in epi nasei peh hitam tin a dong tan ahi.

Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?

18 Balaam in hiche thuchih ho a sei dohtan, Zippor chapa Balak ka thusei hohi ngai tem in, Ki thoudoh tan, ati.

But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:

19 Pakai hi mihem ahilou jeh in jou asei poi, Pathen hi mihem ahi loujeh in lunggel akhel ngai poi, Pakai-Pathen nin ana phondoh ana sei doh aboltan atoh lou um kha tam? Pathen in ana kitepna atoh doh louna suhbulhit louna um kha tam? tin aseiye.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?

20 Ngaijun keiman Pathen holna ding in thupeh kamui, Pakai-Pathen in phatthei aboh sa chu koiman akham thei poi, ka nung lah doh thei poi, ati.

I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.

21 Ama tohgon na a Jacob din manthah na imacha aum poi Israelte din lhaset na toh phalou imacha aum poi Pakaiyin ei umpi jing uvin Isreal a ana ki phut det ihi tauve.

There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

22 Eygpt a konna Pakaiyin ahin pui doh u ahi tai Israelte ding a Pakai chu bongchal hang sen tah ahiye.

God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

23 Sapset na in Jacob a sukhah lou beh ding, Isreal chung nga hile gam thahat kitah lang ding hi jong le, tuapat Jacob henga patna hiti a ka sei ding Pathen in Israel te din hitabang loupina abol ahi tai, ati.

There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

24 Veuvin mipi hochu keipi bang in ading doh un chule keipi bahkai bangtah in a ding doh tai, anneh ding an chah aval lhum masang nga kum lha lou ahi sa kitah thisan adon kahse a ding ahi, ati.

Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

25 Hichun Balak lengpa chun Balaam henga asei tan aphai amahohi nagaosap lou ding ahitah leh phatthei jong boh dajeng tan, atileh;

And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.

26 Ahin Balaam in Balak chu ahoulim pitan kana phondoh bangtah in Pakaiyin a phondoh hochu ka bol ding ka toh ding ahi kana ti ahi ajeh chu Balaam in thuphon dohna chu thumvei anei ahi.

And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?

27 Chu in Balak in Balaam chu ahou lim pitan, lungset tah in neihin jui tan keiman nangma hi munchom’a kapui ding akhatna Pathen lunglam ahung hi thei leh Israel mite chu keima a ding a nei gaosap peh thei ahi.

And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.

28 Balak in Balaam chu Peor molchung sang lam ah apui tou tan gam ong tamtah ahung kisuh vet na munah chun apuijin ahi.

And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,

29 Balak in Balaam chu ahou lim pitan hikom ahin maicham phung sagi nei sempeh in chule bongnou chal sagi chule kelngoi achal sagi maicham kintheng adin nei gonpeh in, ati.

Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

30 Hichun Balak in Balaam dei dol tah le asei dung jui jin bongnou chal sagi maicham phol chunga akoi in chule kelngoi chal sagi umna maicham phol chunga ajam lhatan, ahi.

Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.