1Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
1 Balaam ne Balak se: «Ma sargay feema iyye cina ay se neewo, ka yeeji iyye nda feeji gaaru iyye soola ay se ne.»
2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
2 Balak mo te mate kulu kaŋ Balaam ci. I boro hinka na yeeji fo da feeji gaaru fo wi feema fo kulu boŋ.
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.
3 Gaa no Balaam ne Balak se: «Ni ma kay ne ni sargay kaŋ i ga ton jarga hal ay ma koy. Hambara Rabbi ga kaa ka kuband'ay. Hay kulu kaŋ a cab'ay se, nga no ay mo ga ci ni se.» A koy ka kaaru tudu fo kaŋ sinda tuuri-nya boŋ.
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.”
4 Irikoy kubay da Balaam. A ne Irikoy se: «Ay na sargay feema iyye soola ka yeeji fo da feeji gaaru fo ton feema fo kulu ra.»
5Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
5 Kala Rabbi na sanniyaŋ daŋ Balaam meyo ra ka ne: «Ma ye Balak do. Ya-cina nda ya-cine filaana no ni ga salaŋ.»
6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
6 Kaŋ Balaam ye a do, a na Balak gar a goono ga kay nga sargay summaare kaŋ i ga ton jarga, nga nda Mowab laabu koyey kulu.
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.
7 Balaam sintin ka annabitaray te, ka ne: «Hala Aram laabu no Balak donton k'ay ceeci, Mowab bonkoono donton hala wayna funay haray tondey ra. A ne ‹Ni ma kaa, ni ma Yakuba laali ay se. Ma kaa ka deeni Israyla gaa ay se.›
8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
8 Mate n'ay ga te ka boro laali kaŋ Irikoy mana laali? Mate n'ay ga te ka canda nda boro kaŋ Rabbi mana canda nd'a?
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.
9 Zama za tondey boŋ no ay go ga di a, za tudey boŋ no ay n'a fonnay. Guna, dumi no kaŋ i gora go waani. I s'a lasaabu mo dumi cindey game ra.
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!”
10 May no ga hin ka Yakuba gurayze lasaabu? Baa i na Israyla fay itaaci, may no ga hin ka jare fo kabu i ra? Naŋ ay ma bu adilante* buuyaŋ, naŋ day ay kokora ma hima a wano.»
11Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
11 Kala Balak ne Balaam se: «Ifo no ni goono ga te ay se wo? Ay na ni sambu hala ni m'ay ibarey laali ay se, amma nin wo, ni na albarka daŋ i gaa no gumo!»
12He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
12 Balaam tu a se ka ne: «Manti a ga tilas ay gaa ay ma haggoy, ya salaŋ ka ci haya kaŋ Rabbi daŋ ay meyo ra?»
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.”
13 Balak ye ka salaŋ a se ka ne: «Ma kaa ay banda, ay ga ni ŋwaaray. Iri ma to nangu fo, kaŋ ni ga di ey ka boori, amma ni si di ikulu bo, kala jara. M'i laali ay se noodin.»
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.
14 A kond'a Zofim batama ra, Pisga tondo boŋ. A na sargay feema iyye cina ka yeeji fo da feeji gaaru fo ton feema fo kulu ra.
15He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there.”
15 Balaam mo ne Balak se: «Ni ma kay neewo ni sargay kaŋ i ga ton jarga hal ay ma koy yongo ka kubay da Rabbi.»
16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
16 Rabbi binde na Balaam kubay ka sanni daŋ a meyo ra, ka ne: «Ma ye Balak do. Ya-cina nda ya-cine filaana no ni ga ci.»
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?”
17 Waato kaŋ a kaa Balak do, a n'a gar a go ga kay nga sargay summaare kaŋ i ga ton jarga, nga nda Mowab koyey. Balak n'a hã ka ne: «Ifo no Rabbi ci?»
18He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
18 Kala Balaam na nga misa sambu ka ne: «Ya Balak, tun ka kay ka maa, ya Zippor izo, ma hanga jeeri ay se.
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?
19 Irikoy wo manti boro no, hal a ma taari, a manti Adam-ize mo no hal a ma salaŋ ka tunandi. D'a salaŋ, a ga jaŋ k'a te, wala? Wala a ma ci ka jaŋ k'a tabbatandi no?
20Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
20 Guna, lordi no ay ta ay ma albarka daŋ. Irikoy no ka albarka daŋ, ay wo si hin k'a barmay bo.
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.
21 A mana izefututaray kulu gar Yakuba do, a mana taali gar Israyla do. Rabbi a Irikoyo go a banda, bonkooni zamuuyaŋ go a jama ra.
22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
22 Irikoy n'i fattandi k'i kaa Misira ra. A gaabo ga hima haw-bi gaabi.
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!
23 Daahir, ziimataray kulu sinda hina Yakuba boŋ, gunayaŋ kulu mo sinda gaabi Israyla boŋ. Alwaati toonante ra mo i ga ne Yakuba nda Israyla se: ‹Haŋ kaŋ Irikoy te neeya!›
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.”
24 Guna, jama wo ga tun danga muusu beeri nya cine, sanda mate kaŋ muusu beeri futo ga te, yaadin no i ga tun. A si ye ka kani koyne bo kala nd'a na ham gani ŋwa, kala nd'a na haŋ k'a wi kuri haŋ.»
25Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
25 Waato din gaa Balak ne Balaam se: «Da ni mana i laali baa kayna, kulu ma si albarka daŋ i gaa mo baa kayna!»
26But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”
26 Amma Balaam ye ka tu ka ne a se: «Ay mana ci ni se ka ne: Hay kulu kaŋ Rabbi ne, tilas nga no ay ga te?»
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.”
27 Kala Balak ye ka salaŋ Balaam se koyne, ka ne: «Ma kaa day. Ay ga konda nin nangu fo koyne. Hambara a ga kaan Irikoy se ni m'i laali ay se noodin.»
28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
28 Balak binde konda Balaam Peyor tondo boŋ, nangu kaŋ ga guna saaji bambata do haray.
29Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
29 Balaam ne Balak se: «Ma sargay feema iyye cina ay se neewo ka yeeji iyye nda feeji gaaru iyye soola ay se.»
30Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
30 Balak te mate kaŋ Balaam ci nga se, ka yeeji fo da feeji gaaru fo ton feema fo kulu ra.