१ शमूएल 6
1 अनि पलिश्तीहरूको देशमा परमप्रभुको सन्दुक सात महिनासम्म रह्यो ।
After the Ark of the Lord had been in the country of the Philistines for seven months,
2 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 ।
the Philistines summoned the priests and fortune-tellers, and asked, “What should we do with the Ark of the Lord? Explain to us how to send it back to where it came from.”
3 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 ।”
“If you're going to send back the Ark of the God of Israel, do not send it back empty-handedly, but make sure to send along with it a gift of a guilt offering to him,” they replied. “Then you will be healed, and you will understand why he has treated you like this.”
4 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 ।
“What kind of guilt offering should we send back to him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold objects in the shape of the swellings, and five gold rats representing the number of rulers of the Philistines,” they replied. “The same plague attacked both you and your rulers.
5 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 ।
Make models to represent your swellings and the rats destroying the country, and honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will stop punishing you, your gods, and your land.
6 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?
Why be stubborn like the Egyptians and Pharaoh? When he punished them, didn't they send the Israelites on their way as they left?
7 अब एउटा नयाँ गाडासँगै कहिल्यै जुवा नलागाइएका दुई वटा दुहुना गाई तयार पार्नुहोस् । गाईहरूलाई गाडामा बाँध्नुहोस्, तर तिनीहरूका बाछाबाछीलाई तिनीहरूबाट छुट्टाएर घरमा नै राख्नुहोस् ।
So get a new cart ready, pulled by two milk cows that have never been yoked. Tie the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and put them in a stall.
8 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 ।
Pick up the Ark of the Lord, put it on the cart, and place the gold objects you are sending him as a guilt offering in a chest beside it. Then send the Ark away. Let it go whichever way it wants,
9 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 ।
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its home country, to Beth-shemesh, then it is the Lord who caused all this terrible trouble for us. But if it doesn't, then we'll know that it wasn't him who punished us—it just happened to us by chance.”
10 मानिसहरूलाई भनेअनुसार उनीहरूले गरे । उनीहरूले दुई वटा दुहुना गाईहरू लिए र तिनका बाछाबाछीलाई घरमा नै थुने ।
So that's what the people did. They took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and kept their calves in a stall.
11 उनीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक, साथै सुनका मूसाहरू र उनीहरूका गिर्खाको आकृतिहरू भएको बाकसलाई उक्त गाडामा राखे ।
They put the Ark of the Lord on the cart, together with the chest containing the gold rats and models of their swellings.
12 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 ।
The cows went straight up the road to Beth-shemesh, lowing as they went, going directly on the main road and not turning either left or right. The Philistine rulers followed them all the way to the border of Beth-shemesh.
13 यति बेला बेथ-शेमेशका मानिसहरूले बेसीमा गाहुँको कटानी गरिरहेका थिए। तिनीहरूले आफ्ना आँखा उठाए र सन्दुकलाई हेरे र तिनीहरू आनन्दित भए ।
The people of Beth-shemesh were reaping wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the Ark, they were so happy to see it.
14 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 ।
The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh, and stopped there beside a large rock. The people cut up the cart for wood and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
15 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 ।
The Levites took down the Ark of the Lord and the chest containing the gold objects, and put them on the large rock. The people of Beth-shemesh presented burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord that day.
16 जब पलिश्तीहरूका पाँच जना शासकहरूले यो देखे, तब तिनीहरू एक्रोनमा फर्के ।
The five Philistine rulers saw all that happened this and then went back to Ekron the same day.
17 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 ।
The five gold models of swellings sent by the Philistines as a guilt offering to the Lord were from the rulers of Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.
18 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 ।
The gold rats represented the number of Philistine towns of the five rulers—the fortified towns and their surrounding villages. The large rock on which they placed the Ark of the Lord still stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh as a witness to what happened there.
19 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 ।
But God killed some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the Ark of the Lord. He killed seventy, and the people mourned deeply because the Lord had killed so many.
20 बेथ-शेमेशका मानिसहरूले भने, “यो पवित्र परमप्रभुको परमेश्वर सामु को खडा हुन सक्छ? तो सन्दुक हामीबाट कसकहाँ जानेछ?
The people of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand before the Lord, this holy God? Where should the Ark go from here?”
21 किर्यत-यारीमका बासिन्दाहरूकहाँ यसो भनेर तिनीहरूले दूतहरू पठाए, “पलिश्तीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक फिर्ता ल्याएका छन् । तल आउनुहोस् र त्यो आफ्नो साथमा लानुहोस् ।”
They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim to say, “The Philistines have returned the Ark of the Lord. Come down and take it home with you.”
