< Genesis 31 >
1 But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and being enriched by his substance is become great:
याकूबले लाबानका छोराहरूले यसो भनेका सुने, “हाम्रा पिताका सबै थोक याकूबले लिएका छन्, र हाम्रा पिताका सम्पत्तिबाट नै तिनले यी सबै सम्पत्ति पाएका हुन् ।”
2 And perceiving also that Laban’s countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,
याकूबले लाबानको व्यवहार देखे । याकूबप्रति लाबानको मनसाय परिवर्तन भइसकेको याकूबले देखे ।
3 Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
तब परमप्रभुले याकूबलाई भन्नुभयो, “तेरा पुर्खाहरू र तेरा आफन्तहरूको देशमा फर्केर जा, र म तँसित हुनेछु ।”
4 He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
याकूबले राहेल र लेआलाई आफ्नो बगालको खेतमा बोलाउन पठाए,
5 And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
र तिनीहरूलाई भने, “मप्रतिको तिमीहरूका पिताको मनसाय परिवर्तन भएको म देख्छु, तर मेरा पिताका परमेश्वर मसित हुनुभएको छ ।
6 And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.
मेरो सारा शक्ति लगाएर मैले तिमीहरूका पिताको सेवा गरेको कुरा त तिमीहरूलाई थाहै छ ।
7 Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
तिमीहरूका पिताले मलाई ठगेका छन्, र मेरो ज्याला दस पटक बद्लेका छन्, तर परमेश्वरले तिनलाई मेरो हानि गर्न दिनुभएको छैन ।
8 If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.
'थोप्ले जनावरहरू तिम्रो ज्याला हुनेछ' भनी तिनले भन्दा सबै बगालले थोप्ले पाठा-पाठी नै जन्माए । 'पेटारेहरू तिम्रो ज्याला हुनेछ' भनी तिनले भन्दा सारा बगालले पेटारे पाठा-पाठीहरू नै जन्माए ।
9 And God hath taken your father’s substance, and given it to me.
यसरी परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूका पिताका गाईबस्तु मलाई दिनुभएको छ ।
10 For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.
एक पटक बगाल मिसिने समयमा मैले सपनामा बोकाहरू बगालमा सँगसँगै भएको देखेँ । बोकाहरू छिर्केमिर्के, पेटारे र थोप्ले थिए ।
11 And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.
सपनामा परमेश्वरका दूतले मलाई भने, 'हे याकूब!' मैले जवाफ दिएँ, “हजुर, म यहाँ छु ।'
12 And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.
उहाँले भन्नुभयो, 'तेरा आँखा उठाएर सबै बोका बगालमाथि चढिरहेको हेर् । तिनीहरू छिर्केमिर्के, पेटारे र थोप्ले छन् किनकि लाबानले तँलाई गरेको हरेक कुरा मैले देखेको छु ।
13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.
म बेथेलको परमेश्वर हुँ जहाँ तैँले खामोलाई अभिषेक गरिस् र मसित भाकल गरिस् । अब उठ् र यस देश छाडेर तेरो जन्मभूमिमा फर्कि' ।”
14 And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house?
राहेल र लेआले तिनलाई जवाफ दिएर भने, “के हाम्रा पिताको घरमा हाम्रा निम्ति हकको कुनै भाग छ र? के उहाँले हामीलाई विदेशीहरूलाई जस्तै व्यवहार गर्नुभएको छैन र?
15 Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
किनकि उहाँले हामीलाई बेच्नुभएको छ, र हाम्रो रुपियाँ-पैसा पूर्ण रूपमा सखाप पार्नुभएको छ ।
16 But God hath taken our father’s riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.
हाम्रा पिताबाट परमेश्वरले लैजानुभएका सबै सम्पत्ति अब हाम्रा र हाम्रा छोराछोरीहरूका भएका छन् । त्यसो भए, अब परमेश्वरले तपाईंलाई जे भन्नुभएको छ, सो गर्नुहोस् ।”
17 Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
त्यसपछि याकूब उठे, र तिनले आफ्ना छोराहरू र पत्नीहरूलाई ऊँटहरूमाथि राखे ।
18 And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.
तिनले पद्दन-आराममा आफूले प्राप्त गरेका आफ्ना सबै गाईबस्तु र सबै सम्पत्तिलाई आफ्नो अगिअगि पठाए । त्यसपछि तिनी कनान देशमा आफ्ना पिता इसहाककहाँ जान निस्के ।
19 At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father’s idols.
लाबान आफ्ना भेडाहरूको ऊन कत्रन जाँदा राहेलले आफ्ना पिताका घर-देवताहरू चोरिन् ।
20 And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.
अरामी लाबानलाई थाहा नदिई घर छाडेकाले याकूबले तिनलाई पनि छल गरे ।
21 And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,
आफूसित भएका सबै थोक लिएर तिनी भागे, र छिट्टै महानदी पार गरेर गिलादको पहाडी देशतर्फ अगाडि बढे ।
22 It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.
याकूब भागेको कुरा लाबानलाई तेस्रो दिनमा बताइयो ।
23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.
त्यसैले तिनले आफूसित आफ्ना आफन्तहरू लिई सात दिनसम्म तिनको पिछा गरे । लाबानले गिलादको पहाडी देशमा तिनलाई भेट्टाए ।
24 And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
राती सपनामा परमेश्वर अरामी लाबानकहाँ देखा पर्नुभई तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “तैँले याकूबसित असल वा खराब कुनै कुरो नभन्न होसियार हो ।”
25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.
लाबानले याकूबलाई भेट्टाउँदा याकूब त्यस पहाडी देशमा पाल टाँगेर बसेका थिए । गिलादको पहाडी देशमा लाबान पनि आफ्ना आफन्तहरूसँगै पाल टाँगेर बसे ।
26 And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters, as captives taken with the sword.
लाबानले याकूबलाई भने, “तिमीले मेरा छोरीहरूलाई युद्धका कैदीहरूलाई जस्तै गरी लगेर मलाई छल गरी यो के गरेको?
27 Why wouldst thou run away privately and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?
किन तिमीले मलाई नबताईकन सुटुक्क भागेर धोका दियौ? गीत गाउँदै वीणा र खैँजडी बजाउँदै उत्सवको साथमा मैले तिमीलाई बिदा गर्ने थिएँ ।
28 Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,
तिमीले मेरा नातिहरू र छोरीहरूलाई बिदाइको चुम्बन गर्ने अनुमति पनि दिएनौ । तिमीले मूर्खतापूर्वक काम गर्यौ ।
29 It is in my power to return thee evil: but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
तिमीलाई हानि गर्ने शक्ति मसित छ, तर तिम्रा परमेश्वर गत रात मसित यसो भन्दै बोल्नुभयो, 'तैँले याकूबसित असल वा खराब कुनै कुरो नभन्न होसियार हो ।'
30 Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father’s house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?
अब तिमीले आफ्ना पिताको घरमा फर्कने चाहना गरेकाले तिमी आइसकेका छौ । तर तिमीले मेरा घर-देवताहरू किन चोरी गर्यौ?
31 Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.
याकूबले लाबानलाई जवाफ दिई भने, “तपाईंले आफ्ना छोरीहरू मबाट जबरजस्ती खोसेर लैजानुहुने थियो भनी मैले ठानेकाले म डराएको थिएँ । त्यसैले म सुटुक्क भागेँ ।
32 But whereas thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.
तपाईंका घर-देवताहरू जोसुकैले चोरेको भए तापनि अबदेखि त्यो बाँच्नेछैन । हाम्रा आफन्तहरूको उपस्थितिमा तपाईंसित भएको कुनै थोक मसित छ भने चिनेर लैजानुहोस् ।” राहेलले ती चोरेकी थिइन् भनी याकूबलाई थाहा थिएन ।
33 So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel’s tent,
लाबान याकूब र लेआको पालसाथै दुई जना कमारीका पालभित्र गए, तर तिनले ती घर-देवताहरू पाएनन् । तिनी लेआको पालबाट बाहिर आई राहेलको पालभित्र पसे ।
34 She in haste hid the idols under the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,
राहेलले ती घर-देवताहरू ल्याएकी थिइन् र तिनलाई ऊँटको काठीमा लुकाएकी थिइन् । उनी तीमाथि बसेकी थिइन् । लाबानले पुरै पालमा खोजी गरे तापनि ती पाएनन् ।
35 She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me, according to the custom of women, So his careful search was in vain.
उनले आफ्ना पितालाई भनिन्, “हजुर मसित नरिसाउनुहोला । म महिनावरी भएकीले म तपाईंको सामु उठ्न सक्दिनँ ।” त्यसैले तिनले खोजी गरे तापनि ती घर-देवताहरू भेट्टाएनन् ।
36 And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,
याकूब रिसाए र तिनले लाबानलाई हप्काए, “मेरो दोष के हो? मेरो पाप के हो जसको लागि तपाईंले मेरो यसरी पिछा गर्नुभयो?
37 And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.
तपाईंले मेरा सबै मालसामानको खोजी गरिसक्नुभयो । के तपाईंले कुनै आफ्ना घरेलु सामानहरू फेला पार्नुभयो? पाउनुभएको छ भने ती हाम्रा आफन्तहरूको सामु राखिदिनुहोस् ताकि तिनीहरूले हामी दुईको बिचमा न्याय गरून् ।
38 Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:
बिस वर्षसम्म म तपाईंसँगै थिएँ । तपाईंका भेडीहरू र बाख्रीहरूका गर्भ कहिल्यै तुहिएन, न त मैले तपाईंका बगालबाट भेडाहरू खाएँ ।
39 Neither did I show thee that which the beast had torn, I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:
जङ्गली जनावरहरूले फहराएकाहरूलाई मैले तपाईंकहाँ ल्याउन्नथेँ । बरु, मैले त्यसको क्षतिपूर्ति तिर्थें । दिनमा चोरी भएर होस् वा रातमा चोरी भएर होस्, तपाईंले मलाई सधैँ हराएको हरेक पशुको मोल तिराउनुभयो ।
40 Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
मेरो हालत यस्तो थियो, कि दिउँसो गर्मीले मलाई पोल्थ्यो भने राती चिसोले ठिर्याउँथ्यो । मलाई निद्रा लाग्दैनथ्यो ।
41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.
यी बिस वर्ष म तपाईंको घरमा रहेँ । तपाईंका दुई छोरीका लागि मैले चौध वर्ष तपाईंको सेवा गरेँ, र बगालको लागि छ वर्ष सेवा गरेँ । तपाईंले दस पटक मेरो ज्याला बद्लनुभएको छ ।
42 Unless the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
मेरा पिताका परमेश्वर जो अब्राहामका परमेश्वर र इसहाकका भय हुनुहुन्छ, उहाँ मसित नहुनुभएको भए निश्चय नै तपाईंले मलाई रित्तै हात पठाउनुहुने थियो । परमेश्वरले ममाथिको थिचोमिचो र मैले गरेको कडा परिश्रम देख्नुभएको छ । त्यसैले उहाँले गत रात तपाईंलाई हप्काउनुभयो ।”
43 Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?
लाबानले याकूबलाई जवाफ दिई भने, “यी छोरीहरू मेरै छोरीहरू हुन्; यी नातिनातिनाहरू मेरै नातिनातिनाहरू हुन् र यी बगालहरू मेरै बगालहरू हुन् । तिमीले देखेका यी सबै मेरै हुन् । तर आज यी मेरा छोरीहरू र तिनीहरूले जन्माएका छोराछोरीहरूलाई म के नै गर्न सक्छु र?
44 Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
त्यसैले अब तिमी र मेरो बिचमा एउटा करार बाँधौँ अनि यही करार तिमी र मेरो बिचको गवाही होस् ।”
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title:
त्यसकारण याकूबले एउटा ढुङ्गो लिएर त्यसलाई खामोको रूपमा खडा गरे ।
46 And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.
याकूबले आफ्ना आफन्तहरूलाई भने, “ढुङ्गाहरू जम्मा गर ।” तिनीहरूले ढुङ्गाहरूको थुप्रो लगाए । त्यसपछि तिनीहरूले त्यही थुप्रोनेर खानपान गरे ।
47 And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.
लाबानले त्यसको नाउँ यगर-सहदूता राखे, तर याकूबले त्यसलाई गलेद भने ।
48 And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.
लाबानले भने, “आज यो थुप्रो तिमी र मेरो बिचमा गवाहीको रूपमा खडा छ । त्यसकारण यसको नाउँ गलेद राखियो ।
49 The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.
यसलाई मिस्पा पनि भनिन्छ किनभने लाबानले यसो भनेका थिए, “हामी एक-अर्काको दृष्टिबाट अलग हुँदा परमप्रभुले तिमी र मेरो हेरचाह गरून् ।
50 If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
तिमीले मेरा छोरीहरूलाई दुर्व्यवहार गर्यौ वा तिमीले मेरा छोरीहरूबाहेक अन्य पत्नीहरू ल्यायौ भने हामीसित कोही नभए तापनि परमेश्वर तिम्रो र मेरो बिचमा गवाही हुनुहुन्छ ।”
51 And he said again to Jacob: Behold, this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,
लाबानले याकूबलाई भने, “तिम्रो र मेरो बिचमा मैले खडा गरेको यो थुप्रो र यो खामोलाई हेर ।
52 Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it, thinking harm to me.
तिम्रो हानि गर्नलाई म यो पार गरेर तिमीकहाँ आउनेछैनँ र मेरो हानि गर्नलाई तिमी यो पार गरेर मकहाँ आउनेछैनौ भन्नाका लागि यो थुप्रो र यो खामो गवाहीको रूपमा खडा छन् ।
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
अब्राहामका परमेश्वर, नाहोरका परमेश्वर र तिनीहरूका पिताका परमेश्वरले हाम्रो बिचमा न्याय गरून् । याकूबले आफ्ना पिता इसहाकको भयलाई साक्षी मानी शपथ खाए ।
54 And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:
याकूबले त्यस पहाडमा बलिदान चढाए र आफ्ना आफन्तहरूलाई खानपानको लागि बोलाए । तिनीहरूले खानपान गरे, अनि पुरै रात त्यही पहाडमा बिताए ।
55 But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.
लाबान बिहान सबेरै उठे । तिनले आफ्ना नातिहरू, आफ्ना छोरीहरूलाई चुम्बन गरी आशिष् दिए । त्यसपछि लाबान बिदा भई घर फर्के ।