1 Samuel 6
1 Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven months.
अनि पलिश्तीहरूको देशमा परमप्रभुको सन्दुक सात महिनासम्म रह्यो ।
2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell us how we are to send it back to its place? And they said:
त्यसपछि पलिश्ती मानिसहरूले पुजारीहरू र जोखाना हेर्नेहरूलाई बोलाए । तिनीहरूले उनीहरूलाई भने, “परमप्रभुको सन्दुकलाई हामीले के गर्नुपर्छ? हामीले त्यसको आफ्नै देशमा त्यो कसरी पठाउनुपर्छ हामीलाई भन्नुहोस् ।
3 If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away empty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then you shall be healed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you.
पुजारीहरू र जोखाना हेर्नेहरूले भने, “तपाईंहरूले परमेश्वरको सन्दुक फिर्ता पठाउनु हुन्छ भने, कुनै उपहारविना नपठाउनुहोस् । कुनै पनि हालतमा उहाँलाई दोषबलिसहित पठाउनुहोस् । तब तपाईंहरू निको हुनुहुनेछ र अहिलेसम्म उहाँको हात तपाईंहरूबाट किन नहटाइएको रहेछ भनी तपाईंहरूले जान्नुहुनेछ ।”
4 They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and they answered:
तब तिनीहरूले भने, “हामीले उहाँलाई फर्काइ रहँदा दोषबलि के हुनुपर्छ?” तिनीहरूले जवाफ दिए, “पलिश्तीहरूको शासकहरूको संख्या जति छ त्यति नै सङ्ख्यामा सुनका पाँच गिर्खा र सुनका पाँच मूसाहरू बनाउनुहोस् । किनकि तपाईंहरू र तपाईंका शासकहरूलाई त्यही रूढीले प्रहार गर्यो ।
5 According to the number of the provinces of the Philistines you shall make five golden emerods, and five golden mice: for the same plague hath been upon you all, and upon your lords. And you shall make the likeness of your emerods, and the likeness of the mice that have destroyed the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: to see if he will take off his hand from you, and from your gods, and from your land.
यसैले तपाईंहरूले आफ्ना गिर्खाहरूको नमूनाहरू र देशलाई नाश पार्ने आफ्ना मूसाहरूको नमूनाहरू बनाउनुपर्छ र इस्राएलका परमेश्वरलाई महिमा दिनुपर्छ । सायद उहाँले आफ्नो हात तपाईंहरूबाट, तपाईंका देवाताहरूबाट र तपाईंको देशबाट हटाउनुहुनेछ ।
6 Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they departed?
जसरी मिश्रीहरू र फारोले आफ्नो हृदय कठोर पारे त्यसरी तपाईंहरूले किन आफ्नो हृदय कठोर पार्नुहुन्छ? त्यस बेला परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूसँग कठोर व्यवहार गर्नुभयो । के मिश्रीहरूले मानिसहरू पठाएनन्, अनि तिनीहरूले छोडेर आएनन् र?
7 Now therefore take and make a new cart: and two kine that have calved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
अब एउटा नयाँ गाडासँगै कहिल्यै जुवा नलागाइएका दुई वटा दुहुना गाई तयार पार्नुहोस् । गाईहरूलाई गाडामा बाँध्नुहोस्, तर तिनीहरूका बाछाबाछीलाई तिनीहरूबाट छुट्टाएर घरमा नै राख्नुहोस् ।
8 And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the cart, and the vessels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you shall put into a little box, at the side thereof: and send it away that it may go.
तब परमप्रभुको सन्दुक लिनुहोस् र त्यसलाई गाडामा राख्नुहोस् । तपाईंहरूले दोषबलिको रूपमा उहाँलाई फर्काउने ती सुनका आकृतिहरूलाई त्यसको छेउमा एउटा बाकसमा राख्नुहोस् । अनि त्यसलाई पठाउनुहोस् र यसलाई आफ्नो बाटो जान दिनुहोस् ।
9 And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.
त्यसपछि हेर्नुहोस्, त्यो बेथ-शेमेशतिर आफ्नै देशको बाटो जान्छ भने, यत्रो ठुलो विपत्ति परमप्रभुले नै ल्याउनुभएको रहेछ । तर होइन भने, हामीले जान्नेछौं कि हामीलाई प्रहार गर्ने उहाँको हात होइन । बरु, संयोगले त्यसो भएको रहेछ भनी हामी जान्नेछौं ।
10 They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had suckling calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
मानिसहरूलाई भनेअनुसार उनीहरूले गरे । उनीहरूले दुई वटा दुहुना गाईहरू लिए र तिनका बाछाबाछीलाई घरमा नै थुने ।
11 And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice and the likeness of the emerods.
उनीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक, साथै सुनका मूसाहरू र उनीहरूका गिर्खाको आकृतिहरू भएको बाकसलाई उक्त गाडामा राखे ।
12 And the kine took the straight way that leadeth to Bethsames, and they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the Philistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames.
गाईहरू सोझै बेथ-शेमेशको दिशातिर गए । ती गाईहरू कराउँदै गए तर दाँया र बाँया कतैतिर नलागी, तिनीहरू लोकमार्ग हुँदै गए । पालिश्तीहरूका शासकहरू बेथ-शेमेशको सिमानासम्म नै तिनीहरूको पछि-पछि गए ।
13 Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and lifting up their eyes they saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
यति बेला बेथ-शेमेशका मानिसहरूले बेसीमा गाहुँको कटानी गरिरहेका थिए। तिनीहरूले आफ्ना आँखा उठाए र सन्दुकलाई हेरे र तिनीहरू आनन्दित भए ।
14 And the cart came into the field of Josue a Bethsamite, and stood there. And there was a great stone, and they cut in pieces the wood of the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust to the Lord.
बेथ-शेमेशको नगरबाट त्यो गाडा यहोशूको खेतमा आयो र त्यहाँ नै रोकियो । त्यहाँ एउटा ठुलो ढुङ्गा थियो, र तिनीहरूले गाडाको काठ चिरे र ती गाईहरूलाई परमप्रभुको निम्ति होमबलि चढाए ।
15 And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little box that was at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put them upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames offered holocausts and sacrificed victims that day to the Lord.
लेवीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक र यससँगैको सुनका आकृतिहरू भएको बाकसलाई निकाले र तिनलाई त्यो ठुलो ढुङ्गामाथि राखे । बेथ-शेमेशका मानिसहरूले परमप्रभुलाई त्यसै दिन होमबलि र बलिदानहरू चढाए ।
16 And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Accaron the same day.
जब पलिश्तीहरूका पाँच जना शासकहरूले यो देखे, तब तिनीहरू एक्रोनमा फर्के ।
17 And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned for sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Accaron one:
पलिश्तीहरूले अश्दोदको निम्ति एउटा, गाजाको निम्ति एउटा, अश्कलोनको निम्ति एउटा, गातको निम्ति एउटा र एक्रोनको निम्ति एउटा गरी परमप्रभुलाई दोषबलिको रूपमा फर्काएका सुनका गिर्खाहरू यिनै हुन् ।
18 And the golden mice according to the number of the cities of the Philistines, of the five provinces, from the fenced city to the village that was without wall, and to the great Abel (the stone) whereon they set down the ark of the Lord, which was till that day in the field of Josue the Bethsamite.
सुनका मूसाहरू पलिश्ती शासकहरूका अधीनमा रहेका सबै किल्लाबन्दी गरिएका सहरहरू र गाउँहरूको संख्याअनुसार थिए । तिनीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक राखेका त्यो ठुलो ढुङ्गा बेथशेमेशीका यहोशूको खेतमा आजको दिनसम्म पनि साक्षीको रूपमा रहेको छ ।
19 But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark of the Lord: and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
परमप्रभुले बेथ-शेमेशका केही मानिसहरूलाई आक्रमण गर्नुभयो किनभने तिनीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुकभित्र हेरेका थिए । उहाँले पचास हजार सत्तरी मानिसहरू मार्नुभयो । मानिसहरूले विलाप गरे, किनभने परमप्रभुले मानिसहरूलाई ठुलो आघात पुर्याउनुभएको थियो ।
20 And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
बेथ-शेमेशका मानिसहरूले भने, “यो पवित्र परमप्रभुको परमेश्वर सामु को खडा हुन सक्छ? तो सन्दुक हामीबाट कसकहाँ जानेछ?
21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim, saying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, come ye down and fetch it up to you.
किर्यत-यारीमका बासिन्दाहरूकहाँ यसो भनेर तिनीहरूले दूतहरू पठाए, “पलिश्तीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक फिर्ता ल्याएका छन् । तल आउनुहोस् र त्यो आफ्नो साथमा लानुहोस् ।”
