गन्ती 22

1 त्यसपछि इस्राएलीहरूले मोआबको यर्दन मैदानहरूमा यात्रा गरे। यरीहो पारी पट्टि यर्दन नदी नजिकै तिनीहरूले पाल हाले।

2 एमोरीहरूलाई इस्राएलीहरूले गरेको व्यवहार सिप्पोरको छोरो बालाकले देखे।

3 इस्राएलीहरू धेरै संख्यामा भएकोले मोआब डराएका थिए।

4 मोआबले मिद्यानीका बूढा-प्राधानहरूसित कुरा गरे, “हरियो मैदानमा गोरूले घाँस खाएर नष्ट पारे झैं यी धेरै संख्यामा आएका मानिसहरूले हाम्रा वरिपरि भएको प्रत्येक चीज नष्ट पार्नेछन्।”सिप्पोरको छोरो बालाक त्यस समय मोआबका राजा थिए।

5 बालाकले बओरको छोरा बिलामलाई निमन्त्रण गर्न दूतहरू पठाए जो युफ्रेटिस् नदिको नजीकै पातोरमा थिए। तिनीहरूले भने मिश्रबाट एउटा जाति आएका छन् अनि तिनीहरूको छाउनीहरूले सम्पूर्ण भूमि ढाकेको छ। अहिले तिनीहरूले मेरो विपरीतमा छाउनी बसाएका छन्।

6 यसकारण अब आएर मेरो पक्षमा तिनीहरूलाई सराप्नु होस्, कारण तिनीहरू म भन्दा बलिया छन्। यदि तपाईंले त्यसो गर्नु भए शायद म तिनीहरूलाई परास्त पार्न सक्छु किनभने, मलाई थाहा छ, जसलाई तपाईं आशीर्वाद दिनु हुन्छ, उसलाई आशिर्बाद लाग्छ, र जसलाई तपाईंले सराप्नु हुन्छ उसलाई श्राप लाग्छ।”

7 मोआब र मिद्यानका बूढा-पाकाहरू बिलामसंग कुरा गर्न भनी बाटो लागे। तिनीहरूले भविष्यवाणीको निम्ति आफूसित केही पैसा पनि लिएर गए।

8 तिनीहरू बिलामकहाँ आएर बालाकले भनेको कुरा सुनाए। त्यसपछि बिलामले तिनीहरूलाई भने, “तिमीहरू आज राती यहीं बस अनि म तिमीहरूलाई परमप्रभुले मलाई जे भन्नुहुन्छ सो बताउँछु।” यसर्थ मोआबले पठाएका मानिसहरू बिलामसित बसे।

9 सपनामा परमेश्वरले बिलामलाई दर्शन दिनु भयो र भन्नुभयो, “तिमीसित भएका यी मानिसहरू को हुन्?”

10 बिलामले परमेश्वरलाई उत्तर दिए, “मोआबका राजा सिप्पोरका छोरा बालाकले मकहाँ दूतहरू पठाएका छन्।

11 उनको सन्देश थियो “हेर्नुहोस् यो जाति मिश्रदेशबाट भएको छ र तिनीहरूको छाउनीले देशलाई ढाकी रहेकोछ। अब आउनु होस् र मेरो पक्षमा तिनीहरूलाई सराप्नु होस। यदि तपाईंले त्यसो गारिदिनु भयो भने सायद म तिनीहरूलाई लँडाईमा जितेर धपाउन सक्छु।”

12 परमेश्वरले बिलामलाई भन्नुभयो, “तिमी तिनीहरूसित नजाऊ, अनि मानिसहरूलाई नसराप किनभने तिनीहरू म द्वारा अशिषित छन्।”

13 त्यसकारण बिहानै उठेर बालाकद्वारा पठाएका बुढा-पाकाहरूलाई बिलामले भने, “तपाईंहरूको देशमा फर्केर जानुहोस् परमप्रभुले मलाई तिमीहरूसित जानु अनुमति दिनु भएन।”

14 यसर्थ मोआबका बूढा-पाकाहरू उठेर बालाककहाँ गएर भने, “बिलामले हामीसित आउनु अस्वीकार गरे।”

15 “एक पल्ट फेरि बालाकले बिलामकहाँ मानिसहरू पठाए। दोस्रो चोटीका बुढा-पाकाहरू पहिलेको भन्दा धेरै ठूला र सम्मानित थिए।

16 तिनीहरू गएर बिलामलाई भने, “सिप्पोरको छोरो बालाकको भनाई यस्तो छ, दयागरी तपाईं म भए कहाँ आउन तपाईंले आफैंलाई नरोक्नु होस्।

17 किनभने म तपाईंलाई बडो इज्जत साथ सम्मान चढाउनेछु साथै तपाईंले जे भन्नुहुन्छ म मान्नेछु। दया गरी आउनुहोस् र मेरो पक्षमा तिनीहरूलाई सराप्नु होस्।”

18 तब बिलामले बालाकका मानिसहरूलाई जवाफ दिए, “यदि बालाकले मलाई सुन र चाँदीले भरिएको महल दिए पनि म मेरो परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको आज्ञाचाहे ठूलो वा सानो होस् नष्ट गर्दिनँ।

19 यसकारण अरूहरू झैं तिमीहरू पनि आज राती यहि बस्। अनि म हेर्छु परमप्रभुले मलाई केही कुरा भन्नु हुन्छ कि।”

20 त्यो राती बिलामलाई सपनामा आएर परमेश्वरले भन्नुभयो, “जब यी मानिसहरू तिमीलाई उनीहरूसित लैजान आएका छन्, तिमी उठेर तिनीहरूसित जाऊ, तर म जे भन्छु त्यो मात्र तिमीले गर्नुपर्छ।”

21 यसकारण बिलामले बिहानै उठेर जीन लगाम कसे। त्यसपछि तिनी ती मोआबबाट आएका बूढा-प्रधानहरू संग गए।

22 बिलाम गएको देखी परमेश्वर रिसाउनु भयो र उसलाई रोक्न परमप्रभुका स्वर्गदूत बाटोमा उभिए। बिलाम गधामा चढेका थिए अनि तिनका दुईजना सेवकहरू पनि तिनीसित थिए।

23 जब गधाले परमप्रभुको स्वर्गदूतलाई हातमा तरवार लिएर बाटोमा उभिरहेको देख्यो त्यसले बाटो छाडेर खेततिर गयो। यसर्थ बिलामले त्यस गधालाई बाटोमा फर्काई ल्याउन हिर्कायो।

24 त्यसपछि परमप्रभुका स्वर्गदूत दुवै पट्टि ढुङ्गाको पर्खाल भएको दुइवटा दाखको खेत बीच साँघुरो बाटोमा उभिए,

25 जब गधाले परमप्रभुको स्वर्गदूतलाई देख्यो त्यो भित्तमा टाँसियो अनि बिलामको खुट्टा पनि चेप्टाइदियो। यसर्थ बिलामले फेरि त्यसलाई हिर्काए।

26 त्यसपछि परमप्रभुको स्वर्गदूत अघि बढेर एउटा एकदमै साघुँरो गल्ली जहाँ पसेर दाहिने-देब्रे फर्कन नसकिने ठाँउमा उभिए।

27 परमप्रभुको स्वर्गदूतलाई देखेर गधा थचक्क बस्यो। बिलाम रिसले चुर भएर त्यसलाई आफ्नो लौरोले बेस्सरी हिर्काए।

28 त्यसपछि परमप्रभुले गधालाई मुख खोल्ने अनुमति दिनुभयो र त्यसले बिलामलाई भन्यो, “मैले तपाईंलाई के गरें ताकि तपाईंले मलाई यस प्रकारले तीन चोटि हिर्काउनु भयो?”

29 तब बिलामले गधालाई भने, “तैंले मलाई मूर्ख बनाइस्। यदि मेरो हातमा तरवार हुँदो हो त म तपाईं अहिले मार्ने थिएँ।”

30 गधाले बिलामलाई उत्तर दियो, “के म तपाईंले आफ्नो जीवन भरि आज सम्म चढेको गधा होइन्? के मैले यस्तो अघि कहिले गरेको थिएँ? बिलामले भने, होइन्।”

31 त्यसपछि परमप्रभुले बिलामको आँखा खोली दिनुभयो अनि तिनले परमप्रभुको स्वर्गदूतलाई नाङ्गो तरवार लिएर बाटोमा उभिरहेको देखे। तब तिनले आफ्नो शिर निहुर्याए।

32 तब परमप्रभुको स्वर्गदूतले बिलामलाई भने, “किन तिमीले गधालाई तीन पल्ट हिर्कायौ हेर, म तिमीलाई रोक्नको निम्ति बाहिर आए किनभने तिम्रो यात्रा मेरो आज्ञाको विरूद्धमा छ।

33 जब गधाले मलाई देख्यो, त्यो तीन पल्ट मबाट तर्कन खोज्यो। यदि यो मबाट नतर्केको भए यो निश्चय थियो कि म तिमीलाई मार्ने थिएँ, तर गधालाई जिउँदै छाडि दिने थिएँ।”

34 तब बिलामले परमप्रभुका स्वर्गदूतलाई भने, “मैले पाप गरें कारण मैले जानिन कि तपाईं मलाई रोक्नको निम्ति बाटोमा उभिरहनु भएको थियो। तर यदि मेरो यात्रालाई केही नराम्रो ठान्नु हुन्छ भने म घर फर्कन्छु।”

35 तब परमप्रभुको स्वर्गदूतले बिलामलाई भने, “तिमी यी मानिसहरूसित जाऊ, तर म जे भन्छु तिमी त्यो मात्र बोल। यसकारण बिलाम मोआबबाट आएका बूढा-प्रधानहरूसंग गए।”

36 जब बालाकले बिलाम आउँदैछ भनेको सुने, ऊ मोआबी देशको शहरको उत्तरी सिमाना अर्नोन नदीको नजिक उसलाई भेट्न गए।

37 बालाकले बिलामलाई भने, “तपाईं मेरोमा आउनुहोस् भनी निम्तो दिन मैले मानिसहरू पठाएँ? तपाईं किन म भएकहाँ आउनु भएन? के म तपाईंलाई सम्मान गर्न योग्यको छैन?”

38 त्यसपछि बिलामले बालाकलाई भने, “हेर। म तिम्रोमा अहिले आएकोछु। म तिमीलाई अहिले नै केही कुरा भन्न सक्छु? म त्यही कुरा मात्र भन्ने छु जो परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले मलाई भन्न लगाउनु हुन्छ।”

39 त्यसपछि बिलाम बालाकसित गए। अनि तिनीहरू किर्यत-हुसोतमा आए।

40 बालाकले गोरूहरू र भेडाहरू बलि चढाए अनि बिलाम र मोआबबाट आएका बूढा-प्राधानहरूलाई निमन्त्रणा गरे र खान दिए जो ऊसित आएका थिए।

41 भोलिपल्ट बिहानै बालाकले बिलामलाई बमोत- बालमा लिएर गए। त्यहाँबाट तिनले इस्राएली मानिसहरूको केही भाग देखे।

1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:

6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,

11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.

12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.

13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more.

20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

22 And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.

23 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.

24 But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

25 And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.

26 And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

27 And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.

28 And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.

31 Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.

32 And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.

34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.

35 And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.

37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath-huzoth.

40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.

4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.

22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the Lord.

23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.