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

¹Kata Bileam kepada Balak, "Dirikanlah di tempat ini tujuh mezbah untuk saya, dan siapkanlah di sini tujuh ekor sapi jantan dan tujuh ekor domba jantan."

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

²Balak melakukan seperti yang dikatakan Bileam kepadanya. Di atas setiap mezbah itu mereka mempersembahkan seekor sapi jantan dan seekor domba jantan.

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.

³Lalu Bileam berkata kepada Balak, "Berdirilah di dekat kurban bakaran Tuanku. Sementara itu saya pergi melihat apakah TUHAN mau bertemu dengan saya atau tidak. Nanti saya beritahukan segala sesuatu yang dikatakan TUHAN kepada saya." Maka Bileam pergi seorang diri ke puncak sebuah bukit,

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.”

⁴dan di situ Allah datang kepadanya. Kata Bileam kepada Allah, "Saya sudah mendirikan tujuh mezbah dan mempersembahkan seekor sapi jantan dan seekor domba jantan di atas masing-masing mezbah itu."

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

⁵Lalu TUHAN memberitahukan kepada Bileam apa yang harus dikatakannya, dan menyuruh dia kembali kepada Balak untuk menyampaikan pesan TUHAN kepadanya.

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

⁶Bileam kembali dan mendapati Balak masih berdiri di dekat kurban bakarannya, bersama-sama dengan semua pemimpin Moab.

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.

⁷Lalu Bileam mengucapkan nubuat ini, "Dari Aram, pegunungan di timur sana, Balak, raja Moab memanggil aku, katanya, 'Datanglah, bicaralah untukku. Kutuklah bangsa Israel itu!'

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

⁸Mungkinkah aku mengutuk, kalau Allah tidak mengutuk? Mungkinkah aku menghukum, kalau TUHAN tidak menghukum?

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.

⁹Dari puncak gunung-gunung kulihat mereka; dari bukit-bukit kupandang mereka. Lihat, suatu bangsa yang tersendiri tak termasuk golongan bangsa-bangsa lain.

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!”

¹⁰Keturunan Yakub bagai debu tak terbilang; bangsa Israel banyaknya bukan kepalang. Semoga aku mati sebagai orang jujur kiranya ajalku seperti ajal orang-orang itu."

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

¹¹Lalu Balak berkata kepada Bileam, "Apakah yang kaulakukan terhadapku? Engkau kubawa ke mari untuk mengutuk musuh-musuhku. Tetapi engkau malah memberkati mereka."

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

¹²Jawab Bileam, "Saya hanya dapat mengatakan apa yang TUHAN suruh katakan."

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.”

¹³Lalu Balak berkata kepada Bileam, "Mari kita pergi bersama-sama ke tempat lain; dari situ engkau dapat melihat hanya sebagian dari bangsa Israel. Kutuklah mereka dari situ."

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.

¹⁴Maka Balak membawa Bileam ke padang Zofim, di puncak Gunung Pisga. Di situ pun ia mendirikan tujuh mezbah dan mempersembahkan seekor sapi jantan dan seekor domba jantan di atas masing-masing mezbah itu.

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

¹⁵Kata Bileam kepada Balak, "Tinggallah di sini, dekat kurban bakaran Tuanku, sementara saya pergi menemui TUHAN di situ."

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

¹⁶TUHAN menemui Bileam dan memberitahukan kepadanya apa yang harus dikatakannya, lalu menyuruh dia kembali kepada Balak untuk menyampaikan pesan TUHAN itu.

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?”

¹⁷Maka kembalilah Bileam dan mendapati Balak masih berdiri di dekat kurban bakarannya, bersama-sama dengan para pemimpin Moab. Balak menanyakan apa yang telah dikatakan TUHAN,

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

¹⁸lalu Bileam mengucapkan nubuat ini, "Hai, Balak, anak Zipor, mari datang, dengarlah apa yang hendak kukatakan.

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?

¹⁹Allah tidak seperti manusia yang gampang menyesal dan suka berdusta. Bila Allah berjanji, pasti Ia tepati! Bila Ia berbicara, tentu akan terlaksana!

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

²⁰Aku disuruh memberkati; dan bila Allah memberkati, tak dapat kutarik kembali.

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.

²¹Pada Yakub tidak terlihat kejahatan; pada Israel tak tampak kesukaran. TUHAN, Allah mereka, menyertai mereka. Mereka bersorak: Dialah Raja!

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

²²Allah yang membawa mereka keluar dari Mesir; seperti banteng liar Ia bertempur bagi mereka.

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!

²³Tak ada mantra yang mempan terhadap Yakub tak ada tenungan yang berdaya terhadap Israel. Tentang bangsa itu orang akan berkata, 'Lihatlah keajaiban yang diperbuat Allah!'

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.”

²⁴Bangsa itu bangkit seperti singa betina, dan berdiri tegak seperti singa jantan. Ia tidak berbaring sebelum melahap mangsanya dan minum darah kurban yang diterkamnya."

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

²⁵Lalu Balak berkata kepada Bileam, "Sudahlah, jika engkau tak mau mengutuk bangsa Israel; tapi jangan sekali-kali memberkati mereka!"

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

²⁶Jawab Bileam, "Bukankah sudah saya katakan kepada Tuanku bahwa saya akan melakukan segala yang diperintahkan TUHAN?"

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.”

²⁷Balak berkata, "Mari kita ke tempat lain. Siapa tahu Allah membiarkan engkau mengutuk Israel untukku di tempat itu."

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

²⁸Maka dibawanya Bileam ke puncak Gunung Peor yang menghadap ke padang gurun.

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

²⁹Kata Bileam kepada Balak, "Dirikanlah tujuh mezbah di tempat ini dan siapkanlah di sini tujuh ekor sapi jantan dan tujuh ekor domba jantan."

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

³⁰Balak melakukan seperti yang dikatakan Bileam. Ia mengurbankan seekor sapi jantan dan seekor domba jantan di atas setiap mezbah itu.