1 Toe sê B¡leam vir Balak: Bou vir my hier sewe altare en berei vir my hier sewe bulle en sewe ramme.
2 En Balak het gedoen soos B¡leam verlang het; en Balak en B¡leam het 'n bul en 'n ram op elke altaar geoffer.
3 Daarop sê B¡leam vir Balak: Bly by jou brandoffer staan, en ek sal heengaan; miskien sal die HERE my tegemoetkom, en wat Hy my ook al laat sien, sal ek jou bekend maak. En hy het na 'n kaal heuwel gegaan.
4 En God het B¡leam tegemoetgekom, en hy het vir Hom gesê: Sewe altare het ek reggemaak en 'n bul en 'n ram op elke altaar geoffer.
5 Toe lê die HERE 'n woord in B¡leam se mond en sê: Gaan terug na Balak, en so moet jy spreek.
6 En hy het na hom teruggegaan terwyl hy daar staan by sy brandoffer, hy en al die vorste van Moab.
7 En hy het sy spreuk aangehef en gesê: Uit Aram laat Balak my haal, die koning van Moab -- uit die berge van die Ooste: Kom vervloek Jakob vir my, en kom, verwens Israel.
8 Hoe sal ek vloek wie God nie vloek nie? En hoe sal ek verwens vir wie die HERE nie verwens nie?
9 Want van die top van die rotse af sien ek hom, en van die heuwels af aanskou ek hom. Kyk, 'n volk wat afgesonderd woon en hom nie tot die nasies reken nie.
10 Wie het die stof van Jakob getel? En wie, volgens getal, die vierde deel van Israel? Laat my sterwe die dood van die opregtes, en laat my einde soos syne wees!
11 Toe sê Balak vir B¡leam: Wat het jy my aangedoen? Ek het jou laat haal om my vyande te vloek, en kyk, jy het net geseën!
12 En hy antwoord daarop d¡t: Moet ek dan nie sorgvuldig alles spreek wat die HERE in my mond lê nie?
13 Daarop sê Balak vir hom: Kom tog saam met my na 'n ander plek vanwaar jy hom kan sien -- net sy kant sal jy sien, maar heeltemal kan jy hom nie sien nie -- en vervloek hom daarvandaan vir my.
14 En hy het hom saamgeneem na die Veld van die Wagte, op die top van Pisga, en sewe altare gebou en 'n bul en 'n ram op elke altaar geoffer.
15 Toe sê hy vir Balak: Bly hier staan by jou brandoffer, en ek sal daar op 'n ontmoeting wag.
16 En die HERE het B¡leam ontmoet en 'n woord in sy mond gelê en gesê: Gaan terug na Balak, en so moet jy spreek.
17 En hy het by hom gekom terwyl hy daar staan by sy brandoffer, en die vorste van Moab by hom. En Balak sê vir hom: Wat het die HERE gespreek?
18 Toe hef hy sy spreuk aan en sê: Staan op Balak, en hoor! Luister na my, seun van Sippor!
19 God is geen man dat Hy sou lieg nie; of 'n mensekind dat dit Hom sou berou nie. Sou Hy iets sê en dit nie doen nie, of spreek en dit nie waar maak nie?
20 Kyk, ek het ontvang om te seën; en het Hy geseën, dan kan ek dit nie keer nie.
21 'n Mens aanskou geen ongeregtigheid in Jakob en sien geen onheil in Israel nie. Die HERE sy God is met hom, en die gejubel tot eer van die Koning is by hom.
22 God wat hulle uit Egipte uitgelei het, is vir hulle soos die horings van 'n buffel.
23 Want daar is geen towery teen Jakob of waarsêery teen Israel nie. Nou sal van Jakob en van Israel gesê word wat God gedoen het.
24 Kyk, 'n volk wat opstaan soos 'n leeuin, en soos 'n leeu verhef hy hom. Hy gaan nie lê voordat hy roof eet en die bloed van die wat verslaan is, drink nie.
25 Toe sê Balak vir B¡leam: Jy moet hulle glad nie vloek nie, en jy moet hulle glad nie seën nie.
26 Maar B¡leam antwoord en sê vir Balak: Het ek nie dit met jou gespreek nie: Alles wat die HERE spreek, dit sal ek doen?
27 Verder sê Balak vir B¡leam: Kom tog, ek sal jou na 'n ander plek saamneem; miskien sal dit reg wees in die oë van God dat jy hulle vir my daarvandaan vervloek.
28 Toe neem Balak B¡leam saam na die top van Peor wat oor die wildernis afkyk.
29 Daarop sê B¡leam vir Balak: Bou vir my hier sewe altare, en berei vir my hier sewe bulle en sewe ramme.
30 En Balak het gedoen soos B¡leam verlang het en 'n bul en 'n ram op elke altaar geoffer.
1 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.
2 And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep.
3 Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.
4 And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
5 And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
6 So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab.
7 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
8 How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?
9 From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.
10 Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
11 Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.
12 And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth?
13 And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there.
14 So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
15 Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.
16 And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
17 So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?
18 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor:
19 God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
20 See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.
21 He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.
22 It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.
23 No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!
24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.
25 Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.
26 But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says?
27 Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.
28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.
29 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.
30 And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.