¹Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

¹Ja Bileam ütles Baalakile: 'Ehita mulle siia seitse altarit ja muretse mulle siia seitse härjavärssi ja seitse jäära!'

²Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

²Ja Baalak tegi, nagu Bileam ütles; ja Baalak ja Bileam ohverdasid igal altaril härjavärsi ja jäära.

³Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.

³Ja Bileam ütles Baalakile: 'Jää oma põletusohvri juurde, mina aga lähen sinna! Vahest Issand tuleb mulle vastu. Ja mida tema mulle ilmutab, seda ma ütlen sinule.' Ja ta läks lagedale künkale.

⁴God 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.”

⁴Ja Jumal tuli vastu Bileamile, kes ütles temale: 'Ma püstitasin need seitse altarit ning ohverdasin igal altaril härjavärsi ja jäära.'

⁵Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

⁵Ja Issand pani Bileamile sõnad suhu ning ütles: 'Mine tagasi Baalaki juurde ja räägi nõnda!'

⁶He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

⁶Siis ta läks tagasi tema juurde, ja vaata, ta seisis oma põletusohvri juures, tema ja kõik Moabi vürstid.

⁷He 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.

⁷Siis ta hakkas lausuma ja ütles: 'Aramist tõi mind Baalak, ida mägedelt Moabi kuningas: 'Tule, nea mulle Jaakob, tule sajata Iisraeli!'

⁸How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

⁸Kuidas ma võiksin needa, keda Jumal ei nea? Ja kuidas ma võiksin sajatada, keda Issand ei sajata?

⁹For 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 reckoned among the nations.

⁹Sest ma näen teda kaljude tipust ja vaatan küngastelt: ennäe rahvast, kes elab eraldi ega arva ennast paganate hulka.

¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

¹⁰Kes loendab Jaakobi põrmu ja kes arvab kokku Iisraeli tolmukübemed? Mu hing surgu õiglaste surma ja mu lõpp olgu nagu temal!'

¹¹Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

¹¹Siis Baalak ütles Bileamile: 'Mis sa mulle tegid? Ma tõin sind oma vaenlasi needma, ja vaata, sa oled neid hoopis õnnistanud!'

¹²He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

¹²Aga tema vastas ja ütles: 'Kas ma ei peaks ustavalt rääkima seda, mis Issand mu suhu paneb?'

¹³Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.”

¹³Siis Baalak ütles temale: 'Tule nüüd koos minuga teise paika, kust sa näed seda rahvast. Sa näed küll ainult ta äärt, sa ei näe teda kogu ulatuses, aga nea ta mulle sealt!'

¹⁴He 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.

¹⁴Ja ta võttis tema kaasa valvurite väljakule, Pisgaa mäetippu, ehitas seitse altarit ning ohverdas igal altaril härjavärsi ja jäära.

¹⁵He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there.”

¹⁵Siis Bileam ütles Baalakile: 'Jää siia oma põletusohvri juurde, mina lähen sinna kohtamisele!'

¹⁶Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

¹⁶Ja Issand tuli Bileamile vastu, pani temale sõnad suhu ja ütles: 'Mine tagasi Baalaki juurde ja räägi nõnda!'

¹⁷He 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?”

¹⁷Siis ta tuli tema juurde, ja vaata, ta seisis oma põletusohvri juures ja koos temaga Moabi vürstid. Ja Baalak küsis temalt: 'Mis Issand rääkis?'

¹⁸He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

¹⁸Siis ta hakkas rääkima ja ütles: 'Tõuse, Baalak, ja kuule, pane mind tähele, Sippori poeg!

¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

¹⁹Jumal ei ole inimene, et ta valetaks, inimlaps, et ta kahetseks. Kas tema ütleb, aga ei tee, või räägib, aga ei vii täide?

²⁰Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

²⁰Vaata, mind on kästud õnnistada. Tema on õnnistanud, mina ei saa seda tagasi võtta.

²¹He 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.

²¹Ei märgata häda Jaakobis ega nähta õnnetust Iisraelis. Issand, ta Jumal, on temaga ja rõõmuhääl kuningast tema keskel.

²²God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

²²Jumal, kes tõi nad Egiptusest, on neile otsekui sarved metshärjale.

²³Surely 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!

²³Sellepärast ei ole lausumist Jaakobi vastu ega loitsimist Iisraeli vastu. Küll öeldakse Jaakobist ja Iisraelist: Vaata, mis Jumal on teinud!

²⁴Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

²⁴Vaata, rahvas tõuseb nagu emalõvi, ajab ennast püsti nagu lõvi. Ei ta heida maha enne, kui saak on söödud ja tapetute veri on joodud.'

²⁵Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”

²⁵Aga Baalak ütles Bileamile: 'Kui sa teda ei nea, siis ära teda ometi õnnista!'

²⁶But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”

²⁶Bileam aga vastas ja ütles Baalakile: 'Eks ma ole sulle rääkinud ja öelnud: Ma pean tegema kõike, mida Issand käsib.'

²⁷Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.”

²⁷Siis Baalak ütles Bileamile: 'Tule nüüd, ma võtan sind kaasa teise paika. Vahest on see õige Jumala silmis, et sa nead rahva mulle sealt!'

²⁸Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

²⁸Ja Baalak võttis Bileami enesega kaasa mäetippu, mis kerkib üle kõrbepinna.

²⁹Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

²⁹Siis Bileam ütles Baalakile: 'Ehita mulle siia seitse altarit ja muretse mulle siia seitse härjavärssi ja seitse jäära!'

³⁰Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

³⁰Ja Baalak tegi, nagu Bileam ütles, ja ta ohverdas igal altaril härjavärsi ja jäära.