4 Mojzes 23

1 Bileám je rekel Baláku: »Tukaj mi zgradi sedem oltarjev in mi pripravi sedem volov ter sedem ovnov.«

And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

2 Balák je storil, kakor je Bileám govoril, in Balák in Bileám sta na vsakem oltarju darovala bikca in ovna.

And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.

3 Bileám je rekel Baláku: »Stoj pri svoji žgalni daritvi, jaz pa bom šel. Morda bo prišel Gospod, da me sreča in karkoli mi pokaže, ti bom povedal.« In odšel je na visok kraj.

And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.

4 Bog je srečal Bileáma in ta mu je rekel: »Pripravil sem sedem oltarjev in na vsakem oltarju sem daroval bikca in ovna.«

And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.

5 Gospod je v Bileámova usta položil besedo ter rekel: »Vrni se k Baláku in tako boš govoril.«

And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

6 Vrnil se je k njemu in glej, ta je stal poleg svoje žgalne daritve, on in vsi Moábovi princi.

Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:

7 Vzel je njegovo prispodobo ter rekel: »Moábski kralj Balák me je privedel iz Aráma, iz vzhodnih gora, rekoč: ›Pridi, prekolni mi Jakoba in pridi izzivat Izraela.‹

And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.

8 Kako naj prekolnem, kogar Bog ni preklel? Kako naj izzivam, kogar Gospod ni izzival?

How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?

9 Kajti od vrha skal ga vidim in od hribov ga gledam. Glej, ljudstvo bo prebivalo samo in ne bo šteto med narode.

I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10 Kdo lahko prešteje Jakobov prah in število četrtine Izraela? Naj umrem smrt pravičnega in naj bo moj zadnji konec podoben njegovemu!«

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.

11 Balák pa je rekel Bileámu: »Kaj si mi storil? Vzel sem te, da prekolneš moje sovražnike in glej, ti si jih vse skupaj blagoslovil.«

And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.

12 Ta je odgovoril in rekel: »Mar ne morem paziti, da govorim to, kar je Gospod položil v moja usta?«

He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

13 Balák mu je rekel: »Pridi, prosim te, z menoj na drug kraj, od koder jih lahko vidiš. Videl boš le njihov skrajni del, ne boš pa videl vseh, in od tam mi jih prekolni.«

Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.

14 Privedel ga je na polje Zofim, k vrhu Pisge in zgradil sedem oltarjev in na vsakem oltarju daroval bikca in ovna.

And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram,

15 Baláku je rekel: »Stoj tukaj pri svoji žgalni daritvi, medtem ko tam srečam Gospoda.«

He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.

16 Gospod je srečal Bileáma in v njegova usta položil besedo ter rekel: »Ponovno pojdi k Baláku in tako povej.«

And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

17 Ko je prišel k njemu, glej, je ta stal pri svoji žgalni daritvi in princi Moába z njim. In Balák mu je rekel: »Kaj je Gospod govoril?«

Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?

18 Ta je vzel njegovo prispodobo ter rekel: »Vstani, Balák in poslušaj; prisluhni mi, ti, Cipórjev sin.

But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:

19 Bog ni človek, da bi lagal; niti človeški sin, da bi se moral kesati. Je rekel in tega ne bi storil? Je govoril in ali tega ne bi dobro naredil?

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?

20 Glej, prejel sem zapoved, da blagoslovim in on je blagoslovil in tega ne morem razveljaviti.

I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.

21 Ni zagledal krivičnosti v Jakobu niti ni videl perverznosti v Izraelu. Gospod, njegov Bog, je z njim in krik kralja je med njimi.

There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

22 Bog jih je privedel iz Egipta; moč ima, kakor bi bila moč od samoroga.

God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

23 Zagotovo tam ni izrekanja uroka zoper Jakoba niti tam ni nobenega vedeževanja zoper Izraela. Glede na ta čas bo to rečeno o Jakobu in o Izraelu; ›Kaj je Bog storil!‹

There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

24 Glej, ljudstvo bo vstalo kakor velik lev in se dvignilo kakor mlad lev. On se ne bo ulegel, dokler ne jé od plena in ne pije krvi umorjenega.«

Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

25 Balák je rekel Bileámu: »Niti jih sploh ne preklinjaj niti jih sploh ne blagoslavljaj.«

And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.

26 Toda Bileám je odgovoril in rekel Baláku: »Mar ti nisem rekel, rekoč: ›Vse, kar Gospod govori, to moram storiti?‹«

And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?

27 Balák je rekel Bileámu: »Pridi, prosim te, privedel te bom na drug kraj. Morda bo to ugajalo Bogu, da mi jih boš od tam preklel.«

And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.

28 In Balák je privedel Bileáma na vrh Peórja, ki gleda proti Ješimonu.

And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,

29 Bileám je rekel Baláku: »Tukaj mi zgradi sedem oltarjev in tukaj mi pripravi sedem bikcev in sedem ovnov.«

Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

30 Balák je storil kakor je Bileám rekel in na vsakem oltarju daroval bikca in ovna.

Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.