१ शमूएल 6
1 अनि पलिश्तीहरूको देशमा परमप्रभुको सन्दुक सात महिनासम्म रह्यो ।
And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines 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 ।
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying: 'What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? declare unto us wherewith we shall send it to its place.'
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 ।”
And they said: 'If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return Him a guilt-offering; then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.'
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 ।
Then said they: 'What shall be the guilt-offering which we shall return to Him?' And they said: 'Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
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 ।
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel; peradventure He will lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off 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?
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when He had wrought among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
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 ।
Now therefore take and prepare you a new cart, and two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them.
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 ।
And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return Him for a guilt-offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
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 ।
And see, if it goeth up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then He hath done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.'
10 मानिसहरूलाई भनेअनुसार उनीहरूले गरे । उनीहरूले दुई वटा दुहुना गाईहरू लिए र तिनका बाछाबाछीलाई घरमा नै थुने ।
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
11 उनीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक, साथै सुनका मूसाहरू र उनीहरूका गिर्खाको आकृतिहरू भएको बाकसलाई उक्त गाडामा राखे ।
And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
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 ।
And the kine took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto 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 ।
And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced 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 ।
And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone; and they cleaved the wood of the cart, and offered up the kine for a burnt-offering unto 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 ।
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
16 जब पलिश्तीहरूका पाँच जना शासकहरूले यो देखे, तब तिनीहरू एक्रोनमा फर्के ।
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned 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 ।
And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a guilt-offering unto the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
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 ।
and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even unto Abel by the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD, which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
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 ।
And He smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had gazed upon the ark of the LORD, even He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because the LORD had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
20 बेथ-शेमेशका मानिसहरूले भने, “यो पवित्र परमप्रभुको परमेश्वर सामु को खडा हुन सक्छ? तो सन्दुक हामीबाट कसकहाँ जानेछ?
And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?'
21 किर्यत-यारीमका बासिन्दाहरूकहाँ यसो भनेर तिनीहरूले दूतहरू पठाए, “पलिश्तीहरूले परमप्रभुको सन्दुक फिर्ता ल्याएका छन् । तल आउनुहोस् र त्यो आफ्नो साथमा लानुहोस् ।”
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying: 'The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.'
