प्रेरित 7
1 प्रधान पूजाहारीले भने, “के यी कुराहरू साँचा हुन्?”
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
2 स्तिफनसले भने, “दाजुभाइ तथा पिताहरू हो, मेरो कुरा सुन्नुहोस्ः हाम्रा पिता अब्राहाम हारानमा बस्नुअगि महिमाका परमेश्वर मेसोपोटामियामा तिनीकहाँ देखा पर्नुभयो ।
And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 उहाँले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “तिम्रो देश र तिम्रा नातेदारहरूलाई छाड र मैले देखाउने देशमा जाऊ ।”
and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.
4 त्यसपछि तिनी कल्दीहरूको देशबाट प्रस्थान गरे अनि तिनी हारानमा आएर बसे । त्यहाँ तिनका पिताको मृत्यु भएपछि परमेश्वरले तिनलाई यस देशमा ल्याउनुभयो जहाँ अहिले तपाईंहरू बस्नुहुन्छ ।
Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.
5 उहाँले तिनलाई कुनै पनि कुरा पैत्तृक सम्पत्तिको रूपमा दिनुभएन, यहाँसम्म कि पर्याप्त पाइला राख्ने ठाउँसम्म पनि दिनुभएन । तर अब्राहामको कुनै सन्तान नहुँदा पनि उहाँले त्यो देश तिनलाई सम्पत्तिको रूपमा दिनुहुनेथियो र त्यसपछि तिनका सन्तानहरूलाई दिनुहुनेथियो भनी तिनीसित प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभयो ।
And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.
6 परमेश्वरले तिनलाई भन्दै हुनुहुन्थ्यो कि तिनका सन्तानहरू विदेशी भूमिमा केही समयको लागि बस्नेथिए र त्यहाँका बासिन्दाहरूले तिनीहरूलाई कमारा तुल्याउनेथिए र चार सय वर्षसम्म तिनीहरूलाई थिचोमिचो गर्नेथिए ।
And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;
7 परमेश्वरले भन्नुभयो, “तिनीहरू जुन जातिको अधीनमा कमारा हुनेछन् म तिनीहरूको न्याय गर्नेछु र त्यसपछि तिनीहरू त्यहाँबाट बाहिर निस्केर आई यस ठाउँमा मेरो आराधना गर्नेछन् ।”
and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.
8 अनि उहाँले अब्राहामसित खतनाको करार बाँध्नुभयो । त्यसैले, अब्राहाम इसहाकका पिता बने र तिनले आठौँ दिनमा उनको खतना गरे । इसहाक याकूबका पिता बने र याकूब बाह्र कुलका पिता बने ।
And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
9 कुलपतिहरूले योसेफको विरुद्धमा डाह गरे र तिनलाई मिश्रमा बेचिदिए । तर परमेश्वर तिनीसित हुनुहुन्थ्यो ।
And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,
10 र उहाँले तिनलाई सबै दुःखकष्टबाट छुटाउनुभयो र मिश्रका राजा फारोको सामने तिनलाई कृपा र बुद्धि दिनुभयो । तब फारोले तिनलाई मिश्र र तिनका सारा घरानाका शासक बनाए ।
and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.
11 त्यस बेला सारा मिश्र र कनानभरि अनिकाल पर्यो र ठुलो सङ्कष्ट आइपर्यो । परिणाम स्वरूप हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूले कुनै खाना पाएनन् ।
But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.
12 तर जब मिश्रमा अन्न पाईंदोरहेछ भनी याकूबले सुने तिनले पहिले हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूलाई त्यहाँ पठाए ।
But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;
13 दोस्रो पटकको भेटघाटमा योसेफले आफूलाई आफ्ना दाजुहरूकहाँ प्रकट गरे, र योसेफको परिवारलाई फारोकहाँ परिचित गराइयो ।
and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.
14 आफ्ना पिता याकूब र तिनका सबै नातेदारहरू अर्थात् पचहत्तर प्राणीलाई मिश्रमा आउनुहोस् भनी तिनले आफ्ना दाजुहरूमार्फत खबर पठाए ।
And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.
15 त्यसैले याकूब मिश्रमा गए । त्यहाँ तिनको मृत्यु भयो र हाम्रा पुर्खाहरू पनि त्यहीँ नै मरे ।
And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,
16 तिनीहरूका मृत शरीर शकेममा लगिए र अब्राहामले शकेममा हमोरका छोराहरूबाट चाँदीको मूल्यमा किनेको चिहानमा तिनीहरूलाई गाडियो ।
and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the [father] of Sychem.
17 परमेश्वरले अब्राहामसित प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएको समय नजिकिँदै गर्दा मानिसहरू मिश्रमा गुणात्मक रूपमा बढे ।
But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
18 त्यसपछि मिश्रमा अर्का राजाको उदय भयो जसले योसेफलाई चिन्दैनथ्ये ।
until another king over Egypt arose who did not know Joseph.
19 ती राजाले हाम्रा मानिसहरूलाई छलगरे र हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूलाई यसरी दुर्व्यवहार गरे कि आफैँलाई बचाउन तिनीहरूले आफ्ना शिशुहरूलाई बाहिर फाल्नुपर्थ्यो ।
He dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.
20 त्यही बेला मोशाको जन्म भयो । तिनी परमेश्वरको सामु सुन्दर थिए र तिन महिनासम्म तिनका पिताको घरमा तिनको स्याहार गरियो ।
In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.
21 जब तिनलाई फ्याँकियो फारोकी छोरीले तिनलाई उठाइन् र तिनलाई आफ्नै छोरासरह हुर्काइन् ।
And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself [to be] for a son.
22 मोशालाई मिश्रका सारा विद्यामा शिक्षा दिइयो र तिनी आफ्ना वचन र कर्ममा शक्तिशाली बने ।
And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
23 तर जब तिनी करिब चालिस वर्ष पुगे, तिनलाई आफ्ना दाजुहरू अर्थात् इस्राएलीहरूलाई भेट गर्न मन लाग्यो ।
And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;
24 एक जना इस्राएलीमाथि अन्याय भएको देखेर तिनले उसको रक्षा गरे र अत्याचार गर्ने मिश्रीलाई मारिदिए ।
and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.
25 परमेश्वरले तिनीद्वारा तिनका दाजुभाइहरूको छुट्कारा गर्न खोज्दै हुनुहुन्थ्यो भन्ने कुरा तिनीहरूले बुझ्लान् भनी तिनले सोचे, तर तिनीहरूले त्यो कुरा बुझेनन् ।
For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.
26 अर्को दिन तिनी केही इस्राएलीहरूकहाँ आए जहाँ तिनीहरू एक आपसमा झगडा गरिरहेका थिए । तिनले तिनीहरूको झगडा मिलाउन खोजे र भने, “तपाईंहरू दाजुभाइ हुनुहुन्छ । किन एकअर्काको विरुद्धमा लड्नुहुन्छ?”
And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?
27 तर जसले आफ्नो छिमेकीलाई हानि पुर्याएको थियो त्यसले तिनलाई धकेलेर भन्यो, “तिमीलाई कसले हाम्रो शासक र न्यायकर्ता तुल्यायो?
But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?
28 हिजो तिमीले त्यस मिश्रीलाई मारेझैँ के तिमी मलाई पनि मार्न चाहन्छौ?”
Dost thou wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
29 यो सुनेर मोशा भागे । तिनी मिद्यान देशमा परदेशी बने जहाँ तिनी दुई छोराका पिता बने ।
And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.
30 चालिस वर्ष बितेपछि सीनै पर्वतको उजाड–स्थानमा जलिरहेको आगोको पोथ्रामा एउटा स्वर्गदूत तिनीकहाँ देखा परे ।
And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.
31 मोशाले ज्वालालाई देखेपछि तिनी छक्क परे । त्यसलाई हेर्न तिनी नजिक जाँदा त्यहाँ परमप्रभुको आवाज आयो,
And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,
32 “तिम्रा पुर्खाहरू अब्राहाम, इसहाक र याकूबका परमेश्वर मै हुँ ।” मोशा काँपे र तिनले हेर्ने साहस गरेनन् ।
I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider [it].
33 परमप्रभुले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “तिम्रा जुत्ता फुकाल किनकि तिमी उभिएको ठाउँ पवित्र भूमि हो ।
And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.
34 निश्चय नै मैले मिश्रमा भएका मेरा मानिसहरूको दुःखकष्टलाई देखेको छु । मैले तिनीहरूको क्रन्दन सुनेको छु र म तिनीहरूलाई छुट्कारा दिन तल ओर्लीआएको छु । म तिमीलाई मिश्रमा पठाउनेछु ।”
I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.
35 यी मोशा जसलाई तिनीहरूले इन्कार गरेका थिए, जसलाई तिनीहरूले भनेका थिए, “कसले तिमीलाई शासक र न्यायकर्ता तुल्यायो?”, तिनैलाई परमेश्वरले शासक र उद्धारकर्ता दुवै बनाएर पठाउनुभयो । पोथ्रामा मोशाकहाँ देखा पर्ने स्वर्गदूतद्वारा परमेश्वरले तिनलाई पठाउनुभयो ।
This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 मिश्र, लाल समुद्रसाथै उजाड–स्थानमा चालिस वर्षसम्म आश्चर्यकर्म र चिन्हहरू गरेर मोशाले तिनीहरूलाई मिश्रबाट बाहिर ल्याए ।
He led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 यी तिनै मोशा थिए जसले इस्राएलीहरूलाई भनेका थिए, “परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूका दाजुभाइहरूकै बिचबाट मजस्तै एक जना अगमवक्ता खडा गर्नुहुनेछ ।”
This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him shall ye hear].
38 यी तिनै मानिस हुन् जो उजाड-स्थानमा भएको समुदायसित स्वर्गदूतसँगै थिए जो सीनै पर्वतमा तिनीसित बोलेका थिए । यी तिनै मानिस थिए जो हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूसित थिए; यी तिनै मानिस थिए जसले हामीलाई दिन जीवित वचनहरू प्राप्त गरे ।
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;
39 यी तिनै मानिस थिए जसप्रति हाम्रा पुर्खाहरू आज्ञाकारी बनेनन्; तिनीहरूले तिनलाई पन्छाए र तिनीहरू आफ्ना हृदयमा मिश्रमा फर्कने चाहना गरे ।
to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
40 त्यस बेला तिनीहरूले हारूनलाई भने, “हामीलाई अगुवाइ गर्ने देवताहरू बनाउनुहोस् । हामीलाई मिश्र देशबाट अगुवाइ गरेर ल्याउने यी मोशालाई के भयो हामीलाई थाहा छैन ।”
saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.
41 ती दिनमा तिनीहरूले एउटा बाछोको मूर्ति बनाए र तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई बलिदान चढाए र तिनीहरू आफूले गरेको काममा रमाए ।
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 तर परमेश्वर तिनीहरूबाट तर्कनुभयो र तिनीहरूलाई आकाशका ताराहरूको सेवा गर्न छाडिदिनुभयो जस्तो अगमवक्ताका पुस्तकहरूमा लेखिएको छः “इस्राएलका घराना हो, के तिमीहरूले मलाई चालिस वर्षसम्म उजाड-स्थानमा पशुबलि र बलिदानहरू चढायौ र?”
But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 तिमीहरूले मोलोखको पवित्र वासस्थान र रेफन देवताको तारा र आफूले पूजा गर्न बनाएका मूर्तिहरूलाई स्वीकार गर्यौ । यसकारण म तिमीहरूलाई बेबिलोनभन्दा पर निर्वासनमा लैजानेछु ।”
Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.
44 उजाड-स्थानमा हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूको गवाहीको पवित्र वासस्थान थियो जुन परमेश्वरले मोशालाई आज्ञा गर्नुभएमुताबिक उहाँले देखाउनुभएको नमुनाबमोजिम बनाइएको थियो ।
Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;
45 हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूको पालोमा तिनीहरूले यस पाललाई यहोशूसँगै यस देशमा ल्याए । हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूको उपस्थितिमा परमेश्वरले ती जातिहरूलाई बाहिर निकाली तिनीहरूको देश हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूको हातमा दिनुहुँदा यो घटना भएको थियो । दाऊदको समयसम्म यस्तै भयो,
which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;
46 जसले परमेश्वरको दृष्टिमा निगाह पाए र तिनले याकूबका परमेश्वरको निम्ति एउटा वासस्थान निर्माण गर्नका निम्ति अनुरोध गरे ।
who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
47 तर सोलोमनले परमेश्वरको निम्ति एउटा भवन बनाए ।
but Solomon built him a house.
48 तथापि सर्वोच्च परमेश्वर हातले बनाएका घरहरूमा बस्नुहुन्न जस्तो अगमवक्ताले भनेका छन्ः
But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands; as says the prophet,
49 ‘स्वर्ग मेरो सिंहासन हो, र पृथ्वी मेरा खुट्टाको पाउदान । तिमीहरूले मेरो निम्ति कस्तो किसिमको घर बनाउन सक्छौ?’ परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ । वा मेरो विश्राम स्थान कहाँ छ?
The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where [is the] place of my rest?
50 के यी सबै कुराहरू मेरै हातले बनाएका होइनन् र?’
has not my hand made all these things?
51 हे हठी मानिसहरू हो, हृदय र कानको खतना नभएकाहरू, तपाईंहरू सधैँ पवित्र आत्माको विरोध गर्नुहुन्छ । तपाईंहरूका पुर्खाले जस्तो गरे तपाईंहरू पनि त्यस्तै गर्नुहुन्छ ।
O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.
52 तपाईंहरूका पुर्खाले कुनचाहिँ अगमवक्तालाई सताएनन्? तिनीहरूले अगमवक्ताहरूलाई मारे जो धर्मी जनको आगमनअगि देखा परेका थिए । अहिले आएर तपाईंहरूले उहाँका विश्वासघाती र उहाँका हत्यारा बन्नु भएको छ ।
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!
53 तपाईंहरूले स्वर्गदूतहरूद्वारा स्थापित व्यवस्था पाउनुभयो तर त्यसको पालना गर्नुभएन ।”
who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].
54 जब परिषद्का सदस्यहरूले यी कुराहरू सुने तिनीहरू स्तिफनसको विरुद्धमा क्रूद्ध बने र तिनीहरूले दाह्रा किटे ।
And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.
55 तर तिनले पवित्र आत्माले भरिएर एकटकले स्वर्गतिर हेरे र परमेश्वरको महिमा साथै येशूलाई परमेश्वरको दाहिने हातपट्टि उभिरहनुभएको देखे ।
But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
56 स्तिफनसले भने, “हेर्नुहोस्, म स्वर्ग उघ्रेको र मानिसका पुत्रलाई परमेश्वरको दाहिने हातपट्टि उभिरहनुभएको देख्दछु ।”
and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
57 तर परिषद्का सदस्यहरू ठुलो सोरले चिच्च्याए; तिनीहरूले आफ्ना कान थुने र तिनीहरू तिनीमाथि जाइलागे ।
And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;
58 तिनीहरूले तिनलाई सहरबाहिर ल्याए र तिनीमाथि ढुङ्गा बर्साए । साक्षीहरूले शाऊल नाउँ गरेका जवान मानिसको खुट्टानेर आफ्ना बाहिरी वस्त्रहरू खोलेर राखे ।
and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.
59 तिनीहरूले स्तिफनसमाथि ढुङ्गा बसाईरहँदा तिनले निरन्तर रूपमा प्रभुको पुकारा गरे र भने, “हे प्रभु येशू, मेरो आत्मालाई ग्रहण गर्नुहोस् ।”
And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 तिनले घुँडा टेकी ठुलो सोरले चिच्च्याए, “हे प्रभु, तिनीहरूलाई यो पापको दोष नलागोस् ।” यति भनेपछि तिनले आफ्नो प्राण त्यागे ।
And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.
