Числа 23
1 И рече Валаам к Валаку: созижди мне зде седмь требищ, и уготовай мне зде седмь телцев и седмь овнов.
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
2 И сотвори Валак, якоже рече ему Валаам: и вознесе телца и овна на требище.
Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
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.
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 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.
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 И вложи Бог слово во уста Валааму и рече: возвратився к Валаку тако глаголи.
Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 И возвратися к нему: он же стояше у всесожжений своих, и вси князи Моавли с ним: и бысть Дух Божий на нем.
He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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:
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 что проклену, егоже не кленет Господь? Или что зло реку, егоже не злословит Бог?
How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
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 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 кто изследит семя Иаковле? И кто изочтет сонмы Израиля? Да умрет душа моя в душах праведных, и буди семя мое, якоже семя их.
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 И рече Валак к Валааму: что сотворил еси ми? На проклятие враг моих призвах тя, и се, благословил еси (я) благословением.
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 И рече Валаам к Валаку: не елика ли вложит Бог во уста моя, сие сохраню глаголати?
He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
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.
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 И поя его на стражу села, на верх Истесанаго, и созда тамо седмь требищ, и возложи телца и овна на требище.
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 И рече Валаам к Валаку: стани у требы своея, аз же пойду вопросити Бога.
He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
16 И срете Бог Валаама, и вложи слово во уста ему и рече: возвратися к Валаку, и речеши сия.
Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
17 И возвратися к нему: он же стояше у всесожжений своих, и вси князи Моавли с ним. И рече ему Валак: что глагола Господь?
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 И восприим притчу свою, рече: востани, Валак, и послушай, внуши свидетель, сыне Сепфоров:
He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
19 не яко человек Бог колеблется, ниже яко сын человеческий изменяется: Той глаголаше, не сотворит ли? Речет, и не пребудет ли?
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 Се, благословляти приведен есмь: благословлю, и не отвращу:
Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
21 не будет труда во Иакове, ниже узрится болезнь во Израили: Господь Бог его с ним, слава царская на нем:
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 Бог изведый его из Египта, якоже слава единорога в нем:
God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
23 несть бо вражбы во Иакове, ниже волхвования во Израили: во время наречется Иакову и Израилю, что совершит Бог:
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 се, людие яко львичища востанут, и яко лев вознесется: не уснет, дондеже снест лов и кровь посеченых испиет.
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 И рече Валак к Валааму: ни клятвами мне клени их, ниже благословением благослови их.
Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
26 И отвещав Валаам, рече к Валаку: не рех ли ти, глаголя: слово, еже аще возглаголет Бог, сие сотворю?
But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do’?”
27 И рече Валак к Валааму: гряди, пойму тя на место ино, аще угодно будет Богу, и проклени ми их оттуду.
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 И поя Валак Валаама на верх Фогора, простирающася в пустыню.
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
29 И рече Валаам к Валаку: созижди мне зде седмь требищ, и уготовай мне зде седмь телцев и седмь овнов.
Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
30 И сотвори Валак, якоже рече ему Валаам: и вознесе телца и овна на требище.
Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
