Numbers 12
1 [Moses’/My older sister] Miriam and [his/my older brother] Aaron were saying this: “Is Moses the only one to whom Yahweh has spoken messages to tell to us [RHQ]? Does Yahweh not speak messages to us two also?” [They told people that] they were saying that because Moses/I had married a woman who was a descendant of the Cush people-group, [but they were really saying that because they (were jealous/did not want Moses/me to be the only leader of the Israeli people)]. But Yahweh heard what they were saying.
| روزی مریم و هارون موسی را به علّت اینکه زن او حبشی بود، سرزنش کردند. |
| آنها گفتند: «آیا خداوند فقط به‌وسیلۀ موسی سخن گفته است؟ مگر او به‌وسیلهٔ ما نیز سخن نگفته است؟» خداوند سخنان آنها را شنید. |
3 [The truth was that] Moses/I was very humble. He/I was more humble than anyone else on the earth [and Moses/I had not appointed himself/myself to be their leader].
| موسی متواضع‌ترین مرد روی زمین بود. |
4 So immediately Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and to Aaron and Miriam. He said, “All three of you must go and stand at the Sacred Tent.” So they/we did that.
| پس خداوند بی‌درنگ موسی و هارون و مریم را به خیمهٔ ملاقات فرا خوانده فرمود: «هر سه نفر شما به اینجا بیایید.» پس ایشان در حضور خداوند ایستادند. |
5 Then Yahweh descended to the entrance of the tent in a cloud [that resembled a huge white] pillar. He told Aaron and Miriam to step forward, so they did.
| آنگاه خداوند در ستون ابر نازل شده، در کنار در خیمۀ عبادت ایستاد و فرمود: «هارون و مریم جلو بیایند» و ایشان جلو رفتند. |
6 Then he said to them, “Listen to me! When a prophet is among you, I [usually] reveal myself to him by allowing him to see visions, and I speak to him in dreams.
| خداوند به ایشان گفت، «سخنان مرا بشنوید: هرگاه یک نبی در میان شما باشد من که خداوندم، خود را در رویا به او آشکار می‌کنم و در خواب با وی سخن می‌گویم. |
7 But that is not the way I speak to my servant Moses. I trust that he will lead my people [well].
| ولی با موسی که خدمتگزار من است به این طریق سخن نمی‌گویم، چون او قوم مرا با وفاداری خدمت می‌کند. |
8 So I talk to him face-to-face. I speak to him (clearly/using words that he will understand easily), not using parables. He has even seen what I look like. So you should be afraid to criticize my servant Moses!”
| من با وی رو در رو و آشکارا صحبت می‌کنم، نه با رمز، و او تجلی خداوند را می‌بیند. چطور جرأت کردید او را سرزنش کنید؟» |
9 Yahweh was very angry with Miriam and Aaron, and he left.
| پس خشم خداوند بر ایشان افروخته شد و خداوند از نزد ایشان رفت. |
10 When the cloud rose up from the Sacred Tent, Aaron looked at Miriam, and he saw that her skin was [as white] as snow, because she now had leprosy.
| به محض اینکه ابر از روی خیمهٔ عبادت برخاست، بدن مریم از مرض جذام سفید شد. وقتی هارون این را دید، |
11 Aaron said to Moses/me, “My master, please do not punish us for this sin that we have foolishly committed.
| نزد موسی فریاد برآورد: «ای سرورم، ما را به خاطر این گناه تنبیه نکن، زیرا این گناه ما از نادانی بوده است. |
12 Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”
| نگذار مریم مثل بچهٔ مرده‌ای که موقع تولد، نصف بدنش پوسیده است، شود.» |
13 So Moses/I cried out to Yahweh, saying, “God, I plead with you to heal her!”
| پس موسی نزد خداوند دعا کرده، گفت: «ای خدا، به تو التماس می‌کنم او را شفا دهی.» |
14 But Yahweh replied, “If her father had [rebuked her for doing something wrong by] spitting in her face, she would have been ashamed for seven days. [She should be ashamed because of what she has done]. So send her outside the camp for seven days. Then [she will not have leprosy any more, and] she may return to the camp.”
| خداوند به موسی فرمود: «اگر پدرش آب دهان به صورت او انداخته بود آیا تا هفت روز شرمنده نمی‌شد؟ حالا هم باید هفت روز خارج از اردوگاه به تنهایی به سر برد و بعد از آن می‌تواند دوباره بازگردد.» |
15 So they sent her outside the camp for seven days. (The people/We) did not move [to another location] until she returned.
| پس مریم مدت هفت روز از اردوگاه اخراج شد و قوم اسرائیل تا بازگشت وی به اردوگاه صبر نموده، پس از آن دوباره کوچ کردند. |
16 But after [she returned], they/we left Hazeroth and moved [north] in the Paran Desert and set up their/our tents there.
| سپس از حضیروت کوچ کرده، در صحرای فاران اردو زدند. |
