Numbers 18

1 And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

परमप्रभुले हारूनलाई भन्‍नुभयो, “तँ, तेरा छोराहरू र तेरा वंशकाहरू पवित्र स्थान विरुद्ध गरिने सबै पापका निम्ति जिम्मेवार हुनेछौ । तर पुजारीको पदमा कसैले गरेको सबै पापको निम्ति तँ र तेरा छोराहरू मात्र जिम्मेवार हुनेछौ ।

2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

लेवी कुलका अर्थात् तेरा पुर्खाका वंशका तेरा सङ्गी सदस्यहरूको सवालमा, तिनीहरूलाई तँसँगै ले अनि तँ र तेरा छोराहरूले गवाही-पाटीको पालको सम्मुख सेवा गर्दा तिनीहरू सहभागी होऊन् र तिमीहरूलाई सहायता गरून् ।

3 They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.

तिनीहरूले तेरो र सारा पालको सेवा गर्नुपर्छ ।

4 They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.

तथापि, तिनीहरू पवित्र स्थान वा वेदीसँग सम्बन्धित कुनै थोकको नजिक आउनुहुँदैन नत्रता तिनीहरू र तँ मर्नेछौ । तिनीहरू पालसँग सम्बन्धित सबै किसिमका कामकाजको निम्ति तिमीहरूसँग सहभागी हुनुपर्छ र भेट हुने पालको देखरेख गर्नुपर्छ । कुनै पनि परदेशी तिमीहरूको नजिक आउनुहुँदैन ।

5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

पवित्र स्थान र वेदीको निम्ति तैँले जिम्मा लिनुपर्छ, ताकि इस्राएलका मानिसहरूमाथि मेरो क्रोध फेरि नआओस् ।

6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

हेर्, लेवीहरूका तेरा सङ्गी सदस्यहरूलाई इस्राएलका सन्तानहरूबाट म आफैले चुनेको छु । तिनीहरू भेट हुने पालसँग सम्बन्धित काम गर्न मलाई दिइएका तेरो निम्ति उपहार हुन् ।

7 And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

तर वेदी र पर्दाभित्र भएका सबै थोकसित सम्बन्धि पुजारीको काम तँ र तेरा छोराहरूले मात्र गर्न सक्छस् । ती दायित्वहरू तँ आफैले पुरा गर्नुपर्छ । पुजारीको पद मैले तँलाई उपहारको रूपमा दिइरहेको छु । नजिक आउने कुनै पनि परदेशीलाई मार्नुपर्छ ।”

8 And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.

परप्रभुले हारूनलाई भन्‍नुभयो, “हेर्, मलाई चढाइने बलिदानहरू र इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले मलाई दिने पवित्र भेटीहरू सम्भाल्ने जिम्मा मैले तँलाई दिएको छु ।

9 This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.

मैले यी बलिहरू तँलाई र तेरा छोराहरूलाई अनवरत हिस्साको रूपमा दिएको छु । आगोमा जलाउनबाट बचेका यी थोकहरू तेरा हुने छन् । हरेक अन्‍नबलि, पापबलि र दोषबलिजस्ता तिनीहरूका हरेक बलिबाट तिनीहरू तँलाई र तेरा छोराहरूलाई अलग गरिएका हुन् ।

10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.

यी बलिहरू अति पवित्र छन् । हरेक पुरुषले यो खानुपर्छ, किनभने तिनीहरू तिमीहरूका निम्ति पवित्र छन् ।

11 And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food.

इस्राएलका मानिसहरूका डोलाइने बलिको रूपमा तिनीहरूका सबै उपहारबाट अलग गरिएका यी सबै बलि तेरा हुने छन् । मैले ती तँलाई, तेरा छोराहरू र तेरा छोरीहरूका निम्ति तिमीहरूको सदाको निम्ति अंशको रूपमा दिएको छु । तेरा परिवारका विधिवत् रूपमा शुद्ध हुने सबैले यी बलिहरूबाट खान सक्छन् ।

12 All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

मानिसहरूले मलाई दिने तेल, नयाँ दाखमद्य र अन्‍नको उत्तम भाग, पहिलो फल यी सबै मैले तँलाई दिएको छु ।

13 The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.

तिनीहरूले मकहाँ ल्याउने तिनीहरूका भूमिको पहिलो पाकेको फल तेरो हुने छ । तेरा परिवारका शुद्ध हुने सबैले यी थोकहरूबाट खान सक्छन् ।

14 Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.

इस्राएलमा अर्पण गरिएका सबै थोक तेरा हुने छन् ।

15 The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

मानिसहरूले परमप्रभुलाई अर्पण गर्ने मानिस र पशु दुवैका गर्भ खोल्ने पहिलो जन्मेकाहरू सबै तेरै हुने छन् । तथापि, मानिसहरूले जेठा छोरालाई किनेर फिर्ता लिनुपर्छ र तिनीहरूले अशुद्ध पशुहरूका पहिलो जन्मेकाहरूलाई किनेर फिर्ता गर्नुपर्छ ।

16 Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

मानिसहरूले किनेर फिर्ता लिनुपर्नेहरूलाई एक महिनाको भएपछि किनेर फिर्ता गर्नुपर्छ । त्यसपछि मानिसहरूले पवित्र स्थानको शेकेलको तौलको मापदण्डअनुसार पाँच शेकेल तिरेर फिर्ता लिन सक्छन् । बिस गेराको एक शेकेल हुन्छ ।

17 But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.

तर गाईको पहिले जन्‍मेको बाछो वा भेडा वा बाख्राको पहिले जन्मेको पाठोलाई तिमीहरूले किनेर फिर्ता लिनुहुँदैन; ती मेरो निम्ति अलग गरिएका छन् । तिनीहरूका रगत वेदीमाथि छर्कनुपर्छ र तिनीहरूका बोसो आगोद्वारा चढाइएको परमप्रभुलाई मनपर्ने सुगन्धित बलिको जलाउनुपर्छ ।

18 Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.

तिनीहरूका मासु तेरो हुने छ । डोलाइएको ह्याकुलो र दाहिने साँप्रोझैँ तिनीहरूका मासु तेरो हुने छ ।

19 All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.

इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले परमप्रभुलाई चढाएका सबै पवित्र बलि निरन्तरको अंशको रूपमा मैले तँलाई, तेरा छोराहरू र छोरीहरूलाई दिएको छु । यो तेरो र तेरा सन्तानहरू दुवैको निम्ति परमप्रभुको सामु अनन्तको बाध्यकारी करार अर्थात् नूनको अनन्त करार हो ।”

20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

परमप्रभुले हारूनलाई भन्‍नुभयो, “मानिसहरूको जग्गा-जमिनमा तेरो कुनै उत्तराधिकार हुनेछैन, न त मानिसहरूको सम्पत्तिमा कुनै हिस्सा हुने छ । इस्राएलका मानिसहरूमा म नै तेरो हिस्सा र उत्तराधिकार हुँ ।

21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

हेर्, लेवीका सन्तानहरूले भेट हुने पालमा काम गरे बापत मैले तिनीहरूलाई इस्राएलका दशांश सेवाको सट्टामा दिएको छु ।

22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

आज उप्रान्त इस्राएलका मानिसहरू भेट हुने पालको नजिक आउनुहुँदैन, नत्रता तिनीहरू यो पापको निम्ति जिम्मेवार हुने छन् र मर्नेछन् ।

23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

लेवीहरूले भेट हुने पालसँग सम्बन्धित कामहरू गर्नुपर्छ । यससँग सम्बन्धित कुनै पापको जिम्मेवार तिनीहरू हुने छन् । यो तिमीहरूका मानिसहरूका पुस्तौँ-पुस्तासम्मको स्थायी नियम हुने छ । इस्राएलका मानिसहरूका माझ तिनीहरूको कुनै उत्तराधिकार हुनुहुँदैन ।

24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

मेरो निम्ति योगदानको रूपमा तिनीहरूले चढाएका इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको दशांश मैले लेवीहरूलाई तिनीहरूको उत्तराधिकारको रूपमा दिएको छु । यसैले मैले तिनीहरूलाई यसो भनेँ, 'इस्राएलका मानिसहरूमाझ तिनीहरूको कुनै उत्तराधिकार हुनुहुँदैन ।”

25 And the Lord said to Moses,

परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्‍नुभयो,

26 Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.

“तिमीहरूले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूबाट दशांश प्राप्‍त गर्दा जुन मैले तिमीहरूको उत्तराधिकार हुनको निम्ति दिएको छु, तिमीहरूले यसबाट दशांशको दशांश परमप्रभुलाई दिनेछौ' भनी तैँले लेवीहरूलाई भन्‍नुपर्छ' ।”

27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

तिमीहरूका हिस्सालाई खलाबाट ल्याइएको अन्‍न वा कोलबाट ल्याइएको दाखमद्यको रूपमा लिनुपर्छ ।

28 So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.

यसैले तिमीहरूले पनि इस्राएलका मानिसहरूबाट प्राप्‍त गरेका दशांशहरूबाट परमप्रभुको निम्ति योग दिनुपर्छ । तिमीहरूले त्यसबाट पुजारी हारूनलाई त्यसको हिस्सा दिनुपर्छ ।

29 From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

तिमीहरूले प्राप्‍त गरेका सबै उपहारबाट तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुलाई हरेक हिस्सा दिनुपर्छ । यो तिमीहरूलाई दिइएको उत्तम र अति पवित्र थोकहरूबाट दिनुपर्छ ।'

30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

यसकारण, 'जब तिमीहरूले यसको उत्तम हिस्सा दिन्छौ, लेवीहरूको निम्ति यो खलाबाट ल्याइएको अन्‍न र कोलबाट ल्याइएको दाखमद्यको रूपमा गनिन्छ' भनी तैँले तिनीहरूलाई भन् ।

31 It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.

बाँकी तेरा उपहारहरू तिमीहरू र तिमीहरूका परिवारले कुनै पनि ठाउँमा खान सक्छौ, किनभने यो भेट हुने पालमा तिमीहरूको कामको सट्टामा दिइएको ज्याला हो ।

32 And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

यदि तिमीहरूले प्राप्‍‍त गरेका थोकहरूबाट यसको उत्तम हिस्सा परमप्रभुलाई चढाएका छौ भने, यो खाएर र पिएर तिमीहरूमाथि कुनै दोष आइपर्नेछैन । तर तिमीहरूले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूका पवित्र बलिहरूलाई अपवित्र तुल्याउनुहुँदैन नत्रता तिमीहरू मर्नेछौ' ।”