Numbers 23
1 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
И рече Валаам к Валаку: созижди мне зде седмь требищ, и уготовай мне зде седмь телцев и седмь овнов.
2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
И сотвори Валак, якоже рече ему Валаам: и вознесе телца и овна на требище.
3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me: and whatever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
И рече Валаам к Валаку: стани у требы своея, и пойду, аще явится мне Бог в сретение, и слово, еже мне укажет, повем тебе. И ста Валак у требы своея.
4 And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bull and a ram.
И Валаам иде вопросити Бога, и иде прямо: и явися Бог Валааму. И рече к нему Валаам: седмь требищ изготових и возложих телца и овна на требище.
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
И вложи Бог слово во уста Валааму и рече: возвратився к Валаку тако глаголи.
6 And he returned to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
И возвратися к нему: он же стояше у всесожжений своих, и вси князи Моавли с ним: и бысть Дух Божий на нем.
7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.
И восприим притчу свою рече: от Месопотамии приведе мя Валак царь Моавль, от гор восточных, глаголя: гряди, проклени ми Иакова, и гряди, проклени ми Израиля:
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
что проклену, егоже не кленет Господь? Или что зло реку, егоже не злословит Бог?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Яко от верха гор узрю его и от холм проуразумею его: се, людие едини населятся и со языки не вменятся:
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
кто изследит семя Иаковле? И кто изочтет сонмы Израиля? Да умрет душа моя в душах праведных, и буди семя мое, якоже семя их.
11 And Balak said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? I took thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
И рече Валак к Валааму: что сотворил еси ми? На проклятие враг моих призвах тя, и се, благословил еси (я) благословением.
12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
И рече Валаам к Валаку: не елика ли вложит Бог во уста моя, сие сохраню глаголати?
13 And Balak said to him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from which thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and from there curse them for me.
И рече к нему Валак: пойди еще со мною на место ино, с негоже не узриши их оттуду, но разве часть некую их узриши, всех же не узриши, и проклени ми их оттуду.
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on every altar.
И поя его на стражу села, на верх Истесанаго, и созда тамо седмь требищ, и возложи телца и овна на требище.
15 And he said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
И рече Валаам к Валаку: стани у требы своея, аз же пойду вопросити Бога.
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak, and say thus.
И срете Бог Валаама, и вложи слово во уста ему и рече: возвратися к Валаку, и речеши сия.
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What hath the LORD spoken?
И возвратися к нему: он же стояше у всесожжений своих, и вси князи Моавли с ним. И рече ему Валак: что глагола Господь?
18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise, Balak, and hear; hearken to me, thou son of Zippor:
И восприим притчу свою, рече: востани, Валак, и послушай, внуши свидетель, сыне Сепфоров:
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
не яко человек Бог колеблется, ниже яко сын человеческий изменяется: Той глаголаше, не сотворит ли? Речет, и не пребудет ли?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Се, благословляти приведен есмь: благословлю, и не отвращу:
21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
не будет труда во Иакове, ниже узрится болезнь во Израили: Господь Бог его с ним, слава царская на нем:
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Бог изведый его из Египта, якоже слава единорога в нем:
23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
несть бо вражбы во Иакове, ниже волхвования во Израили: во время наречется Иакову и Израилю, что совершит Бог:
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he shall eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
се, людие яко львичища востанут, и яко лев вознесется: не уснет, дондеже снест лов и кровь посеченых испиет.
25 And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
И рече Валак к Валааму: ни клятвами мне клени их, ниже благословением благослови их.
26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
И отвещав Валаам, рече к Валаку: не рех ли ти, глаголя: слово, еже аще возглаголет Бог, сие сотворю?
27 And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee to another place; perhaps it will please God that thou mayest from there curse them for me.
И рече Валак к Валааму: гряди, пойму тя на место ино, аще угодно будет Богу, и проклени ми их оттуду.
28 And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
И поя Валак Валаама на верх Фогора, простирающася в пустыню.
29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
И рече Валаам к Валаку: созижди мне зде седмь требищ, и уготовай мне зде седмь телцев и седмь овнов.
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on every altar.
И сотвори Валак, якоже рече ему Валаам: и вознесе телца и овна на требище.
