Числа 23
1 И рече Валаам к Валаку: созижди мне зде седмь требищ, и уготовай мне зде седмь телцев и седмь овнов.
And Balaam said to Balac, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.
2 И сотвори Валак, якоже рече ему Валаам: и вознесе телца и овна на требище.
And Balac did as Balaam told him; and he offered up a calf and a ram on [every] altar.
3 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.
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.
4 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.
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.
5 И вложи Бог слово во уста Валааму и рече: возвратився к Валаку тако глаголи.
And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, you shall return to Balac, and thus shall you speak.
6 И возвратися к нему: он же стояше у всесожжений своих, и вси князи Моавли с ним: и бысть Дух Божий на нем.
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.
7 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:
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.
8 что проклену, егоже не кленет Господь? Или что зло реку, егоже не злословит Бог?
How can I curse whom the Lord curses not? or how can I devote whom God devotes not?
9 Яко от верха гор узрю его и от холм проуразумею его: се, людие едини населятся и со языки не вменятся:
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.
10 кто изследит семя Иаковле? И кто изочтет сонмы Израиля? Да умрет душа моя в душах праведных, и буди семя мое, якоже семя их.
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.
11 И рече Валак к Валааму: что сотворил еси ми? На проклятие враг моих призвах тя, и се, благословил еси (я) благословением.
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].
12 И рече Валаам к Валаку: не елика ли вложит Бог во уста моя, сие сохраню глаголати?
And Balaam said to Balac, Whatsoever the Lord shall put into my mouth, shall I not take heed to speak this?
13 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.
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.
14 И поя его на стражу села, на верх Истесанаго, и созда тамо седмь требищ, и возложи телца и овна на требище.
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.
15 И рече Валаам к Валаку: стани у требы своея, аз же пойду вопросити Бога.
And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by your sacrifice, and I will go to enquire of God.
16 И срете Бог Валаама, и вложи слово во уста ему и рече: возвратися к Валаку, и речеши сия.
And God met Balaam, and put a word into his mouth, and said, return to Balac, and thus shall you speak.
17 И возвратися к нему: он же стояше у всесожжений своих, и вси князи Моавли с ним. И рече ему Валак: что глагола Господь?
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?
18 И восприим притчу свою, рече: востани, Валак, и послушай, внуши свидетель, сыне Сепфоров:
And he took up his parable, and said, rise up, Balac, and hear; listen as a witness, you son of Sepphor.
19 не яко человек Бог колеблется, ниже яко сын человеческий изменяется: Той глаголаше, не сотворит ли? Речет, и не пребудет ли?
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]?
20 Се, благословляти приведен есмь: благословлю, и не отвращу:
Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.
21 не будет труда во Иакове, ниже узрится болезнь во Израили: Господь Бог его с ним, слава царская на нем:
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.
22 Бог изведый его из Египта, якоже слава единорога в нем:
It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.
23 несть бо вражбы во Иакове, ниже волхвования во Израили: во время наречется Иакову и Израилю, что совершит Бог:
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.
24 се, людие яко львичища востанут, и яко лев вознесется: не уснет, дондеже снест лов и кровь посеченых испиет.
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.
25 И рече Валак к Валааму: ни клятвами мне клени их, ниже благословением благослови их.
And Balac said to Balaam, Neither curse the people at all for me, nor bless them at all.
26 И отвещав Валаам, рече к Валаку: не рех ли ти, глаголя: слово, еже аще возглаголет Бог, сие сотворю?
And Balaam answered and said to Balac, Spoke I not to you, saying, Whatsoever thing God shall speak to me, that will I do?
27 И рече Валак к Валааму: гряди, пойму тя на место ино, аще угодно будет Богу, и проклени ми их оттуду.
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.
28 И поя Валак Валаама на верх Фогора, простирающася в пустыню.
And Balac took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extends to the wilderness.
29 И рече Валаам к Валаку: созижди мне зде седмь требищ, и уготовай мне зде седмь телцев и седмь овнов.
And Balaam said to Balac, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.
30 И сотвори Валак, якоже рече ему Валаам: и вознесе телца и овна на требище.
And Balac did as Balaam told him, and offered a calf and a ram on [every] altar.
