गन्ती 23

1 बालामले बालाकलाई भने, “यहाँ मेरो निम्ति सातवटा वेदी निर्माण गर्नुहोस्, र सातवटा साँढे र सातवटा भेडा तयार पार्नुहोस् ।

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

2 बालाकले बालामले भनेजस्तै गरे । अनि बालाक र बालामले हरेक वेदीमा एउटा-एउटा साँढे र भेडा बलि चढाए ।

Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

3 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 ।

Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.

4 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 ।”

God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

5 परमप्रभुले बालामको मुखमा वचन हालिदिनुभयो र भन्‍नुभयो, “बालाककहाँ फर्केर जा र त्यसलाई भन् ।”

Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

6 त्यसैले बालाम बालाककहाँ फर्के, जो आफ्‍नो बलिदानको छेउमा उभिरहेका थिए र मोआबका सबै अगुवा तिनीसँग थिए ।

He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7 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 ।'

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

8 परमेश्‍वरले नै सराप नदिनुभएकालाई मैले कसरी सराप दिन सक्छु? परमप्रभुले नै विरोध नगर्नुभएकाहरूलाई मैले कसरी विरोध गर्न सक्छु?

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

9 म तिनलाई पहाडको चुचुरोबाट देख्छु; म तिनलाई पहाडबाट हेर्छु । हेर्नुहोस्, एक्लै बस्‍ने मानिसहरू र आफूलाई साधारण जातिको रूपमा ठान्दैनन् ।

For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.

10 याकूबको धूलोलाई वा इस्राएलको एक चौथाइलाई मात्र पनि कसले गन्‍न सक्छ? मेरो मरण धार्मिक व्यक्‍तिको जस्तो होस् र मेरो जीवन त्यसको जस्तै होस्!”

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

11 बालाकले बालामलाई भने, “तपाईंले मलाई के गर्नुभएको? मेरा शत्रुहरूलाई सराप दिनुहोस् भनी मैले तपाईंलाई ल्याएँ, तर हे्र्नुहोस्, तपाईंले त तिनीहरूलाई आशिष् दिनुभयो ।”

Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

12 बालामले जवाफ दिए र भने, “के परमप्रभुले मेरो मुखमा जे हाल्नुहुन्छ सो मात्र भन्‍न म सावधान हुनुपर्दैन र?”

He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

13 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 ।”

Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”

14 त्यसैले तिनले बालामलाई सोफीमको मैदानमा भएको पिसगाको टाकुरामा लगे, र अरू सातवटा वेदी बनाए । तिनले हरेकमा एउटा-एउटा साँढे र भेडा बलि चढाए ।

He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

15 त्यसपछि बालामले बालाकलाई भने, “यहीँ नै तपाईंको बलिदानको छेउमा उभिनुहोस्, म परमप्रभुलाई भेट्न जान्छु ।”

He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”

16 त्यसैले परमप्रभुले बालामलाई भेट्नुभयो र तिनको मुखमा सन्देश हालिदिनुभयो । तिनले भने, “बालाककहाँ जा र तिनलाई मेरो सन्देश दे ।”

Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

17 बालाम तिनीकहाँ फर्केर आए र तिनी आफ्नो होमबलिको छेउमा उभिरहेका थिए र मोआबका अगुवाहरू तिनीसँग थिए । अनि बालाकले तिनलाई भने, “परमप्रभुले के भन्‍नुभयो?”

He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”

18 बालामले अगमवाणी गर्न थाले, “उठ् बालाक र सुन् । हे सिप्पोरका छोरा मेरो कुरा सुन् ।

He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

19 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?

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?

20 हेर्नुहोस्, आशिष् दिने आज्ञा मलाई दिइएको छ । परमेश्‍वरले आशिष् दिनुभएको छ र म यसलाई उल्टाउन सक्दिनँ ।

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

21 उहाँले याकूबसँग कुनै कठिनाइ वा इस्राएलमा कुनै कष्‍ट देख्‍नुभएको छैन । परमप्रभु तिनीहरूका परमेश्‍वर तिनीहरूसँग हुनुहुन्छ र तिनीहरूका राजाको जय-ध्वनि तिनीहरूमाझ छ ।

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

22 परमेश्‍वरले तिनीहरूलाई जङ्गली गोरुको जस्तै शक्‍तिले मिश्रबाट ल्याउनुभयो ।

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

23 याकूब विरुद्ध कुनै टुनामुनाले काम गर्दैन र इस्राएललाई कुनै जोखनाले हानि पुर्‍याउँदैन । बरु, याकूब र इस्राएलबारे यसो भन्‍नुपर्छ, 'हेर, परमेश्‍वरले के गर्नुभएको छ!'

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

24 हेर, मानिसहरू सिंहनीजस्तै उठ्छन्, सिंहजस्तै उठ्छन् र आक्रमण गर्छन् । त्यो आफ्नो सिकारलाई नखाएसम्म र त्यसले मारेको सिकारको रगत नपिएसम्म आराम गर्दैन ।”

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

25 त्यसपछि बालाकले बालामलाई भने, “तिनीहरूलाई सराप नदिनुहोस् वा आशिष् पनि नदिनुहोस् ।”

Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”

26 तर बालामले जवाफ दिए र भने, “के परमप्रभुले भन्‍नलाई बताउनुभएको कुरा मात्र मैले भन्‍नुपर्छ भनी मैले भनेको थिइनँ र?”

But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do’?”

27 त्यसैले बालाकले बालामलाई जावाफ दिए, “अब आउनुहोस्, म तपाईंलाई अर्को ठाउँमा लैजान्छु । सायद त्यहाँबाट मेरो निम्ति तिनीहरूलाई सराप दिन परमेश्‍वरले इच्छा गर्नुहुने छ ।”

Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

28 त्यसैले बालाकले बालामलाई पोरको टाकुरामा लगे, जहाँबाट तल मरुभूमि देखिन्छ ।

Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

29 बालामले बालाकलाई भने, “यहाँ सातवटा वेदी बनाउनुहोस् अनि सातवटा साँढे र भेडा तयार पार्नुहोस् ।”

Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

30 बालाकले बालामले भनेबमोजिम गरे; तिनले हरेक वेदीमा एउटा-एउटा साँढे र भेडा बलि चढाए ।

Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.