प्रेरित 7
1 प्रधान पूजाहारीले भने, “के यी कुराहरू साँचा हुन्?”
Then the high priest said, “Can these things be so?”
2 स्तिफनसले भने, “दाजुभाइ तथा पिताहरू हो, मेरो कुरा सुन्नुहोस्ः हाम्रा पिता अब्राहाम हारानमा बस्नुअगि महिमाका परमेश्वर मेसोपोटामियामा तिनीकहाँ देखा पर्नुभयो ।
So he said: “Men, brothers and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he resided in Haran,
3 उहाँले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “तिम्रो देश र तिम्रा नातेदारहरूलाई छाड र मैले देखाउने देशमा जाऊ ।”
and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and come into a land that I will show you.’
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 he left the land of the Chaldeans and resided in Haran. From there, after his father died, God moved him to this land in which you now live;
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 ।
yet He did not give him an inheritance in it, not even a footstep. He promised to give it to him for a possession, that is, to his seed after him, though 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 ।
Further, God spoke like this: that his offspring would be aliens in a foreign land—and that they would be enslaved and oppressed—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 ।”
‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out 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 him a covenant of circumcision; and so he begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac did the same to Jacob, and Jacob to the twelve patriarchs.
9 कुलपतिहरूले योसेफको विरुद्धमा डाह गरे र तिनलाई मिश्रमा बेचिदिए । तर परमेश्वर तिनीसित हुनुहुन्थ्यो ।
“The patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt; yet 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 adversities, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor 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 ।
And a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, even a great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.
12 तर जब मिश्रमा अन्न पाईंदोरहेछ भनी याकूबले सुने तिनले पहिले हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूलाई त्यहाँ पठाए ।
But upon hearing that there was wheat in Egypt, Jacob first sent our fathers.
13 दोस्रो पटकको भेटघाटमा योसेफले आफूलाई आफ्ना दाजुहरूकहाँ प्रकट गरे, र योसेफको परिवारलाई फारोकहाँ परिचित गराइयो ।
On the second trip Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was presented to Pharaoh.
14 आफ्ना पिता याकूब र तिनका सबै नातेदारहरू अर्थात् पचहत्तर प्राणीलाई मिश्रमा आउनुहोस् भनी तिनले आफ्ना दाजुहरूमार्फत खबर पठाए ।
Joseph sent and summoned his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
15 त्यसैले याकूब मिश्रमा गए । त्यहाँ तिनको मृत्यु भयो र हाम्रा पुर्खाहरू पनि त्यहीँ नै मरे ।
So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers;
16 तिनीहरूका मृत शरीर शकेममा लगिए र अब्राहामले शकेममा हमोरका छोराहरूबाट चाँदीको मूल्यमा किनेको चिहानमा तिनीहरूलाई गाडियो ।
and they were transferred to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.
17 परमेश्वरले अब्राहामसित प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएको समय नजिकिँदै गर्दा मानिसहरू मिश्रमा गुणात्मक रूपमा बढे ।
“Now as the time of the promise was approaching which God had sworn to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,
18 त्यसपछि मिश्रमा अर्का राजाको उदय भयो जसले योसेफलाई चिन्दैनथ्ये ।
until a different king arose who had not known Joseph.
19 ती राजाले हाम्रा मानिसहरूलाई छलगरे र हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूलाई यसरी दुर्व्यवहार गरे कि आफैँलाई बचाउन तिनीहरूले आफ्ना शिशुहरूलाई बाहिर फाल्नुपर्थ्यो ।
This man took advantage of our race and oppressed our fathers, making them expose their babies so that they would not stay alive.
20 त्यही बेला मोशाको जन्म भयो । तिनी परमेश्वरको सामु सुन्दर थिए र तिन महिनासम्म तिनका पिताको घरमा तिनको स्याहार गरियो ।
At that time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; he was nurtured in his father's house for three months.
21 जब तिनलाई फ्याँकियो फारोकी छोरीले तिनलाई उठाइन् र तिनलाई आफ्नै छोरासरह हुर्काइन् ।
When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him to herself and brought him up as her own son.
22 मोशालाई मिश्रका सारा विद्यामा शिक्षा दिइयो र तिनी आफ्ना वचन र कर्ममा शक्तिशाली बने ।
So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; he was mighty in words and deeds.
23 तर जब तिनी करिब चालिस वर्ष पुगे, तिनलाई आफ्ना दाजुहरू अर्थात् इस्राएलीहरूलाई भेट गर्न मन लाग्यो ।
Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.
24 एक जना इस्राएलीमाथि अन्याय भएको देखेर तिनले उसको रक्षा गरे र अत्याचार गर्ने मिश्रीलाई मारिदिए ।
Well seeing one of them being wronged, he defended and avenged the one being oppressed, striking down the Egyptian.
25 परमेश्वरले तिनीद्वारा तिनका दाजुभाइहरूको छुट्कारा गर्न खोज्दै हुनुहुन्थ्यो भन्ने कुरा तिनीहरूले बुझ्लान् भनी तिनले सोचे, तर तिनीहरूले त्यो कुरा बुझेनन् ।
Now he supposed that his brothers understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.
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?”
The next day he appeared to them as they were fighting and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?’
27 तर जसले आफ्नो छिमेकीलाई हानि पुर्याएको थियो त्यसले तिनलाई धकेलेर भन्यो, “तिमीलाई कसले हाम्रो शासक र न्यायकर्ता तुल्यायो?
But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed Moses away, saying: ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
28 हिजो तिमीले त्यस मिश्रीलाई मारेझैँ के तिमी मलाई पनि मार्न चाहन्छौ?”
Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’
29 यो सुनेर मोशा भागे । तिनी मिद्यान देशमा परदेशी बने जहाँ तिनी दुई छोराका पिता बने ।
Well Moses fled at that word, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons.
30 चालिस वर्ष बितेपछि सीनै पर्वतको उजाड–स्थानमा जलिरहेको आगोको पोथ्रामा एउटा स्वर्गदूत तिनीकहाँ देखा परे ।
“And when another forty years had passed, Angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 मोशाले ज्वालालाई देखेपछि तिनी छक्क परे । त्यसलाई हेर्न तिनी नजिक जाँदा त्यहाँ परमप्रभुको आवाज आयो,
Well upon seeing it Moses was amazed at the sight, but as he approached for a closer look the voice of the Lord came to him:
32 “तिम्रा पुर्खाहरू अब्राहाम, इसहाक र याकूबका परमेश्वर मै हुँ ।” मोशा काँपे र तिनले हेर्ने साहस गरेनन् ।
‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ Moses started trembling and did not dare to look.
33 परमप्रभुले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “तिम्रा जुत्ता फुकाल किनकि तिमी उभिएको ठाउँ पवित्र भूमि हो ।
So the Lord said to him: ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand 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 definitely seen the mistreatment of my people in Egypt, and have heard their groaning; and I have come down to deliver them. So now come, I will send you 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 you a ruler and a judge?’—God sent him as leader and deliverer by 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 ।
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
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, ‘The Lord our God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, like me.’
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, who was with the Angel who spoke with him on Mount Sinai and was 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 did not want to be obedient; rather they rejected him and turned back in their heart 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 that will go before us; because this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt—we do not know what has become of him.’
41 ती दिनमा तिनीहरूले एउटा बाछोको मूर्ति बनाए र तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई बलिदान चढाए र तिनीहरू आफूले गरेको काममा रमाए ।
Well they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and started rejoicing in the works of their 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 away and gave them over to serve the army of the heaven, just as it is written in Book of the Prophets: ‘House of Israel, did you offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness?
43 तिमीहरूले मोलोखको पवित्र वासस्थान र रेफन देवताको तारा र आफूले पूजा गर्न बनाएका मूर्तिहरूलाई स्वीकार गर्यौ । यसकारण म तिमीहरूलाई बेबिलोनभन्दा पर निर्वासनमा लैजानेछु ।”
Actually you took along the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god, Rephan, the images that you made to worship; so I will relocate you beyond Babylon.’
44 उजाड-स्थानमा हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूको गवाहीको पवित्र वासस्थान थियो जुन परमेश्वरले मोशालाई आज्ञा गर्नुभएमुताबिक उहाँले देखाउनुभएको नमुनाबमोजिम बनाइएको थियो ।
“The tent of the testimony, according to the pattern that Moses had seen, just as the One speaking to him had commanded to make it, was with our fathers in the wilderness;
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, having received it in turn, our fathers with Joshua brought into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before 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 favor before God and asked to find a dwelling 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
However, the Most High does not dwell in handmade sanctuaries, just as the prophet says:
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?
‘Heaven is my throne, while the earth is a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me,’ says the Lord, ‘or what place for my rest?
50 के यी सबै कुराहरू मेरै हातले बनाएका होइनन् र?’
Did not my hand make 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 ।
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so you do.
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 did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers;
53 तपाईंहरूले स्वर्गदूतहरूद्वारा स्थापित व्यवस्था पाउनुभयो तर त्यसको पालना गर्नुभएन ।”
you who received the Law as ‘ordinances of angels’ and have not kept it!”
54 जब परिषद्का सदस्यहरूले यी कुराहरू सुने तिनीहरू स्तिफनसको विरुद्धमा क्रूद्ध बने र तिनीहरूले दाह्रा किटे ।
Well as they heard these things their hearts were being sawed in half, and they started gnashing their teeth at him.
55 तर तिनले पवित्र आत्माले भरिएर एकटकले स्वर्गतिर हेरे र परमेश्वरको महिमा साथै येशूलाई परमेश्वरको दाहिने हातपट्टि उभिरहनुभएको देखे ।
But he, being full of Holy Spirit and looking intently into the heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on God's right,
56 स्तिफनसले भने, “हेर्नुहोस्, म स्वर्ग उघ्रेको र मानिसका पुत्रलाई परमेश्वरको दाहिने हातपट्टि उभिरहनुभएको देख्दछु ।”
and said, “Wow! I see the heavens opened and the Son of the Man standing at God's right!”
57 तर परिषद्का सदस्यहरू ठुलो सोरले चिच्च्याए; तिनीहरूले आफ्ना कान थुने र तिनीहरू तिनीमाथि जाइलागे ।
Yelling at the top of their voice they covered their ears and rushed at him all at once,
58 तिनीहरूले तिनलाई सहरबाहिर ल्याए र तिनीमाथि ढुङ्गा बर्साए । साक्षीहरूले शाऊल नाउँ गरेका जवान मानिसको खुट्टानेर आफ्ना बाहिरी वस्त्रहरू खोलेर राखे ।
and throwing him out of the city they stoned him! (The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.)
59 तिनीहरूले स्तिफनसमाथि ढुङ्गा बसाईरहँदा तिनले निरन्तर रूपमा प्रभुको पुकारा गरे र भने, “हे प्रभु येशू, मेरो आत्मालाई ग्रहण गर्नुहोस् ।”
Yes, they stoned Stephen as he called out and said, “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 ।
Then kneeling down he called out at the top of his voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” And upon saying this he fell asleep. (Saul was in full agreement with his murder.)
