Numbers 23
1 And Balaam said to Balac, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.
बालामले बालाकलाई भने, “यहाँ मेरो निम्ति सातवटा वेदी निर्माण गर्नुहोस्, र सातवटा साँढे र सातवटा भेडा तयार पार्नुहोस् ।
2 And Balac did as Balaam told him; and he offered up a calf and a ram on [every] altar.
बालाकले बालामले भनेजस्तै गरे । अनि बालाक र बालामले हरेक वेदीमा एउटा-एउटा साँढे र भेडा बलि चढाए ।
3 And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by your sacrifice, and I will go and see if God will appear to me and meet me, and the word which he shall show me, I will report to you. And Balac stood by his sacrifice.
अनि बालामले बालाकलाई भने, “तपाईं आफ्नो बलिदानको छेउमा खडा हुनुहोस् र म जाने छु । सायद परमप्रभु मलाई भेट्न आउनुहुने छ । उहाँले मलाई जे देखाउनुहुन्छ, सो म गर्ने छु ।” त्यसैले तिनी कुनै रुख नभएको पहडाको चुचुरोतिर गए ।
4 And Balaam went to enquire of God; and he went straight forward, and God appeared to Balaam; and Balaam said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and have offered a calf and a ram on [every] altar.
तिनी पहाडको टुप्पोमा हुँदा परमेश्वरले तिनलाई भेट्नुभयो र बालामले उहाँलाई भने, “मैले सातवटा वेदी बनाएको छु र मैले हरेक वेदीमा एउटा-एउटा साँढे र भेडा बलि चढाएको छु ।”
5 And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, you shall return to Balac, and thus shall you speak.
परमप्रभुले बालामको मुखमा वचन हालिदिनुभयो र भन्नुभयो, “बालाककहाँ फर्केर जा र त्यसलाई भन् ।”
6 And he returned to him, and moreover he stood over his whole burnt offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; and the Spirit of God came upon him.
त्यसैले बालाम बालाककहाँ फर्के, जो आफ्नो बलिदानको छेउमा उभिरहेका थिए र मोआबका सबै अगुवा तिनीसँग थिए ।
7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.
बालामले अगमवाणी कहन थाले र भने, “मोआबका राजा बालाकले मलाई पूर्वका पहाडहरूबाट अर्थात् अरामबाट ल्याएका छन् । तिनले भने, 'आउनुहोस् मेरो निम्ति याकूबलाई सराप दिनुहोस् ।' 'आउनुहोस्, इस्राएललाई धम्की दिनुहोस् ।'
8 How can I curse whom the Lord curses not? or how can I devote whom God devotes not?
परमेश्वरले नै सराप नदिनुभएकालाई मैले कसरी सराप दिन सक्छु? परमप्रभुले नै विरोध नगर्नुभएकाहरूलाई मैले कसरी विरोध गर्न सक्छु?
9 For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
म तिनलाई पहाडको चुचुरोबाट देख्छु; म तिनलाई पहाडबाट हेर्छु । हेर्नुहोस्, एक्लै बस्ने मानिसहरू र आफूलाई साधारण जातिको रूपमा ठान्दैनन् ।
10 Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, and who shall number the families of Israel? let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, and let my seed be as their seed.
याकूबको धूलोलाई वा इस्राएलको एक चौथाइलाई मात्र पनि कसले गन्न सक्छ? मेरो मरण धार्मिक व्यक्तिको जस्तो होस् र मेरो जीवन त्यसको जस्तै होस्!”
11 And Balac said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I called you to curse my enemies, and behold you have greatly blessed [them].
बालाकले बालामलाई भने, “तपाईंले मलाई के गर्नुभएको? मेरा शत्रुहरूलाई सराप दिनुहोस् भनी मैले तपाईंलाई ल्याएँ, तर हे्र्नुहोस्, तपाईंले त तिनीहरूलाई आशिष् दिनुभयो ।”
12 And Balaam said to Balac, Whatsoever the Lord shall put into my mouth, shall I not take heed to speak this?
बालामले जवाफ दिए र भने, “के परमप्रभुले मेरो मुखमा जे हाल्नुहुन्छ सो मात्र भन्न म सावधान हुनुपर्दैन र?”
13 And Balac said to him, Come yet with me to another place where you shall not see the people, but only you shall see a part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse me them from thence.
बालाकले तिनलाई भने, “कृपया मसँग अर्को ठाउँमा आउनुहोस् जहाँबाट तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई देख्न सक्नुहुन्छ । तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई नजिकको मात्र देख्नुहुने छ, तर तिनीहरू सबैलाई देख्नुहुने छैन । तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई त्यहाँबाट सराप दिनुहुने छ ।”
14 And he took him to a high place of the field to the top of the quarried [rock], and he built there seven altars, and offered a calf and a ram on [every] altar.
त्यसैले तिनले बालामलाई सोफीमको मैदानमा भएको पिसगाको टाकुरामा लगे, र अरू सातवटा वेदी बनाए । तिनले हरेकमा एउटा-एउटा साँढे र भेडा बलि चढाए ।
15 And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by your sacrifice, and I will go to enquire of God.
त्यसपछि बालामले बालाकलाई भने, “यहीँ नै तपाईंको बलिदानको छेउमा उभिनुहोस्, म परमप्रभुलाई भेट्न जान्छु ।”
16 And God met Balaam, and put a word into his mouth, and said, return to Balac, and thus shall you speak.
त्यसैले परमप्रभुले बालामलाई भेट्नुभयो र तिनको मुखमा सन्देश हालिदिनुभयो । तिनले भने, “बालाककहाँ जा र तिनलाई मेरो सन्देश दे ।”
17 And he returned to him: and he also was standing by his whole burnt sacrifice, and all the princes of Moab with him; and Balac said to him, What has the Lord spoken?
बालाम तिनीकहाँ फर्केर आए र तिनी आफ्नो होमबलिको छेउमा उभिरहेका थिए र मोआबका अगुवाहरू तिनीसँग थिए । अनि बालाकले तिनलाई भने, “परमप्रभुले के भन्नुभयो?”
18 And he took up his parable, and said, rise up, Balac, and hear; listen as a witness, you son of Sepphor.
बालामले अगमवाणी गर्न थाले, “उठ् बालाक र सुन् । हे सिप्पोरका छोरा मेरो कुरा सुन् ।
19 God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep [to his word]?
परमेश्वर मानिस वा मानव हुनुहुन्न कि उहाँले ढाँट्नुपरोस्, उहाँले आफ्नो मन बदल्नुपरोस् । के उहाँले पुरा नगर्ने गरी कुनै कुरा प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएको छ? के उहाँले कुनै गर्छु भनेर पुरा गर्नुभएको छैन र?
20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.
हेर्नुहोस्, आशिष् दिने आज्ञा मलाई दिइएको छ । परमेश्वरले आशिष् दिनुभएको छ र म यसलाई उल्टाउन सक्दिनँ ।
21 There shall not be trouble in Jacob, neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: the Lord his God [is] with him, the glories of rulers [are] in him.
उहाँले याकूबसँग कुनै कठिनाइ वा इस्राएलमा कुनै कष्ट देख्नुभएको छैन । परमप्रभु तिनीहरूका परमेश्वर तिनीहरूसँग हुनुहुन्छ र तिनीहरूका राजाको जय-ध्वनि तिनीहरूमाझ छ ।
22 It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.
परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूलाई जङ्गली गोरुको जस्तै शक्तिले मिश्रबाट ल्याउनुभयो ।
23 For there is no divination in Jacob, nor enchantment in Israel; in season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel what God shall perform.
याकूब विरुद्ध कुनै टुनामुनाले काम गर्दैन र इस्राएललाई कुनै जोखनाले हानि पुर्याउँदैन । बरु, याकूब र इस्राएलबारे यसो भन्नुपर्छ, 'हेर, परमेश्वरले के गर्नुभएको छ!'
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion's whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.
हेर, मानिसहरू सिंहनीजस्तै उठ्छन्, सिंहजस्तै उठ्छन् र आक्रमण गर्छन् । त्यो आफ्नो सिकारलाई नखाएसम्म र त्यसले मारेको सिकारको रगत नपिएसम्म आराम गर्दैन ।”
25 And Balac said to Balaam, Neither curse the people at all for me, nor bless them at all.
त्यसपछि बालाकले बालामलाई भने, “तिनीहरूलाई सराप नदिनुहोस् वा आशिष् पनि नदिनुहोस् ।”
26 And Balaam answered and said to Balac, Spoke I not to you, saying, Whatsoever thing God shall speak to me, that will I do?
तर बालामले जवाफ दिए र भने, “के परमप्रभुले भन्नलाई बताउनुभएको कुरा मात्र मैले भन्नुपर्छ भनी मैले भनेको थिइनँ र?”
27 And Balac said to Balaam, Come [and] I will remove you to another place, if it shall please God, and curse me them from thence.
त्यसैले बालाकले बालामलाई जावाफ दिए, “अब आउनुहोस्, म तपाईंलाई अर्को ठाउँमा लैजान्छु । सायद त्यहाँबाट मेरो निम्ति तिनीहरूलाई सराप दिन परमेश्वरले इच्छा गर्नुहुने छ ।”
28 And Balac took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extends to the wilderness.
त्यसैले बालाकले बालामलाई पोरको टाकुरामा लगे, जहाँबाट तल मरुभूमि देखिन्छ ।
29 And Balaam said to Balac, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.
बालामले बालाकलाई भने, “यहाँ सातवटा वेदी बनाउनुहोस् अनि सातवटा साँढे र भेडा तयार पार्नुहोस् ।”
30 And Balac did as Balaam told him, and offered a calf and a ram on [every] altar.
बालाकले बालामले भनेबमोजिम गरे; तिनले हरेक वेदीमा एउटा-एउटा साँढे र भेडा बलि चढाए ।
