व्यवस्था 7

1 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई तिमीहरूले अधिकार गर्ने देशमा ल्याउनुहुँदा उहाँले तिमीहरूकै सामु तिमीहरूभन्दा महान् र शक्तिशाली सात जाति हित्ती, गिर्गाशी, एमोरी, कनानी, परिज्‍जी, हिव्वी र यबूसीहरूलाई धपाउनुहुने छ ।

“Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will expel from that land seven people-groups that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. He will expel the Heth people-group, the Girgash people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.

2 तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई पराजित गर्दा परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले नै तिनीहरूलाई तिमीहरूकहाँ सुम्पिदिनुहुने छ र तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई पूर्ण रूपमा नष्‍ट गर्नू । तिनीहरूसित कुनै करार नबाँध्‍नू, र तिनीहरूलाई कृपा नदेखाउनू ।

When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make (an alliance/a peace treaty) with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.

3 तिनीहरूसित विवाहको कुनै बन्दोवस्त नमिलाउनू । तिमीहरूले आफ्ना छोरीहरू तिनीहरूका छोराहरूलाई नदिनू, र आफ्ना छोराहरूका निम्ति तिनीहरूका छोरीहरू नलिनू ।

You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.

4 किनकि तिनीहरूले तिमीहरूका छोराहरूले अरू देवी-देवताहरूलाई पुजून् भनेर मलाई पछ्याउनबाट तिनीहरूलाई तर्काउने छन् । त्यसैले परमप्रभुको क्रोध तिमीहरूको विरुद्धमा दन्कने छ, र उहाँले तत्काल तिमीहरूलाई नष्‍ट गर्नुहुने छ ।

Because, if you did that, those people would cause your children to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship other gods. If that happens, Yahweh will be very angry with you and he will get rid of you immediately.

5 तिनीहरूसित यसरी व्यवहार गर्नूः तिनीहरूका वेदीहरू भत्काइदिनू; तिनीहरूका ढुङ्गाका खम्बाहरू टुक्राटुक्रा पारिदिनू; तिनीहरूका अशेरा देवीका खम्बाहरू काटेर ढालिदिनू र तिनीहरूका मूर्तिहरू आगोमा जलाइदिनू ।

This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their (altars/places for sacrificing animals), break apart the stone pillars [that are dedicated to their male god Baal], cut down the [poles that they use when they worship the goddess] Asherah, and burn their [wooden] idols.

6 किनकि तिमीहरू परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरका निम्ति अलग गरिएका जाति हौ । उहाँले तिमीहरूलाई पृथ्वीको धरातलमा भएका अन्य कुनै पनि जातिहरूभन्दा उहाँको जातिको रूपमा अधिकार हुन चुन्‍नुभएको छ ।

You must do that because you are a group of people who belong to Yahweh our God. He has chosen you from among all the people-groups in the world to be his own special people.

7 अरू जातिहरूभन्दा तिमीहरू सङ्ख्यामा धेरै भएकाले परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूलाई प्रेम देखाउनुभएको होइन वा चुन्‍नुभएको होइन किनकि तिमीहरू सबै जातिभन्दा सङ्ख्यामा थोरै छौ ।

“It was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.

8 तर उहाँले तिमीहरूलाई प्रेम गर्नुहुने भएकोले र उहाँले तिमीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूसित खानुभएको शपथ पुरा गर्ने इच्छा गर्नुभएकोले तिमीहरूलाई चुन्‍नुभएको हो ।

Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he vowed to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power [MTY], and freed you from being slaves [MTY] of the king of Egypt.

9 त्यसकारण, परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूलाई शक्तिशाली हातले बाहिर ल्याउनुभएको छ, र दासत्वको घर अर्थात् मिश्रका राजा फारोको हातबाट छुटकारा दिलाउनुभएको छ । तसर्थ, परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वर नै विश्‍वासयोग्य परमेश्‍वर हुनुहुन्छ जसले उहाँलाई प्रेम गर्ने र उहाँका आज्ञाहरू मान्‍ने हजारौँ पुस्तासम्म आफ्ना करार पुरा गर्नुहुन्छ र विश्‍वासयोग्य हुनुहुन्छ भनी जान ।

So do not forget that Yahweh our God is the only/true God. He will do what he agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love (for 1,000 generations/forever) all those who love him and who obey his commandments.

10 तर उहाँको अवहेलना गर्नेहरूलाई उहाँले बदला लिनुहुने छ वा तिनीहरूलाई नष्‍ट गर्नुहुने छ । उहाँको अवहेलना गर्नेहरू जोकसैप्रति पनि उहाँ सहनशील हुनुहुन्‍न । उहाँले त्यसको बदला लिनुहुने छ ।

But for those who hate him, he will (pay them back/do to them what they deserve); he will punish them and quickly get rid of them.

11 त्यसकारण मैले तिमीहरूलाई दिएका आज्ञा र विधिविधानहरू पालन गर र मान ।

“So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.

12 तिमीहरूले यी विधिविधानहरू सुनेर पालन गर्‍यौ भने परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूसित बाँध्‍नुभएको करार र विश्‍वसनियता उहाँले पुरा गर्नुहुने छ ।

If you heed these commands and obey them faithfully, Yahweh our God will do what he has agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love you, which is what he vowed to your ancestors that he would do.

13 उहाँले तिमीहरूलाई प्रेम गर्नुहुने छ; आशिष् दिनुहुने छ र गुणात्मक रूपमा वृद्धि गराउनुहुने छ । तिमीहरूलाई दिन्छु भनी तिमीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूसित प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएको देशमा उहाँले तिमीहरूको शरीरको फल, भूमिको फल, तिमीहरूको अन्‍न, तिमीहरूको नयाँ दाखमद्य, तिमीहरूको तेल, तिमीहरूको गाईवस्तु र तिमीहरूको बगाललाई वृद्धि गरी आशिष् दिनुहुने छ ।

He will love you and bless you. He will enable you to have many children [DOU]. He will bless your fields, with the result that you will have plenty of grain and [grapes to make] wine and plenty of [olive] oil. You will have many cattle and sheep. He will do all these things for you in the land that he promised to your ancestors that he would give to you.

14 अरू सबै जातिभन्दा तिमीहरू सुखि हुने छौ । तिमीहरूका बिचमा कोही पनि निसन्तान हुने छैन, र तिमीहरूका गाईवस्तुमध्ये एउटै पनि बैला हुने छैन ।

He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.

15 परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूबाट सबै रोग लैजानुहुने छ । तिमीहरूले जानेका मिश्रका कुनै पनि खराब रोगहरू तिमीहरूमाथि आउने छैनन्, तर तिमीहरूलाई घृणा गर्नेहरूमाथि उहाँले ती ल्याउनुहुने छ ।

And Yahweh will protect you from all illnesses. You will not be afflicted with any of the dreadful diseases that [our ancestors knew about] in Egypt, but all your enemies will be inflicted with those diseases.

16 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई दिनुहुने सबै जातिलाई नष्‍ट गर्नू, र तिनीहरूलाई दया नदेखाउनू । तिनीहरूका देवी-देवताको पुजा नगर्नू किनकि त्यो तिमीहरूका निम्ति पासो हुने छ ।

You must get rid of all the people-groups that Yahweh our God will enable you to conquer. Do not [SYN] act mercifully toward any of them. And do not worship their gods, because if you do that, it would be like falling into a trap [from which you will never be able to escape].

17 'यी जातिहरू सङ्ख्यामा हामीभन्दा धेरै भएकाले हामीले कसरी धपाउन सकौँला' भनी तिमीहरूले आफ्ना ह्रदयमा सोच्यौ भने पनि

“Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’

18 तिनीहरूदेखि नडराओ । परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले फारो र सबै मिश्रीलाई के गर्नुभयो भनी तिमीहरूले याद राख्‍नू ।

Do not be afraid of them. Instead, think about what Yahweh our God did to the king of Egypt and to all the people whom he [ruled].

19 भयानक दुःखकष्‍ट, चिन्ह, आश्‍चर्य, शक्तिशाली हात र फैलिएको पाखुरा जसद्वारा परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई ल्याउनुभयो, सो तिमीहरूका आँखाले देख्यौ । तिमीहरू डराएका ती सबै जातिलाई पनि परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले त्यसै गर्नुहुने छ ।

Do not forget the terrible plagues that your ancestors saw [Yahweh inflict on the people of Egypt], and the many [DOU] miracles [that he performed], and the very powerful [DOU, MTY] way by which he brought your ancestors out [of Egypt]. Yahweh our God will do the same kind of things to the people-groups that you are afraid of now.

20 यसबाहेक, परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिनीहरू बाँकी रहुञ्‍जेलसम्म र तिमीहरूको उपस्थितिबाट नष्‍ट नहोस् भनी तिनीहरू लुकेसम्म तिनीहरूका बिचमा अरिङ्गाल पठाउनुहुने छ ।

Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.

21 तिनीहरूदेखि नडराओ किनकि परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वर तिमीहरूका बिचमा हुनुहुन्छ जो महान् र भययोग्य हुनुहुन्छ ।

Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God will be with/among you. He is a great God; he is the one you should be afraid of.

22 परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूकै सामुन्‍ने तिनीहरूलाई अलिअलि गरेर धपाउनुहुने छ । तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई एकै चोटि पराजित गर्ने छैनौ नत्रता जङ्गली जनावरहरू तिमीहरूका बिचमा धेरै हुने छन् ।

He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not [try to] expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, [and you would not be able to get rid of them].

23 तर तिमीहरू तिनीहरूसित युद्ध गर्न जाँदा परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिनीहरूमाथि तिमीहरूलाई विजयी तुल्याउनुहुने छ ।

Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies [one people-group at a time]. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.

24 उहाँले तिनीहरूका राजाहरूलाई तिमीहरूको शक्तिमुनि ल्याउनुहुने छ र तिमीहरूले आकाशमुनि तिनीहरूका नाउँ मेटिदिने छौ । तिनीहरूलाई नष्‍ट नगरुञ्‍जेलसम्म कोही पनि तिमीहरूका सामु खडा हुन सक्दैन ।

He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.

25 खोपेर बनाइएका तिनीहरूका देवी-देवताहरूका प्रतिमूर्तिहरू जलाइदिनू । तिनलाई ढाक्‍ने सुनचाँदीको लोभ गरेर ती आफ्नो निम्ति नराख्‍नू । तिमीहरूले त्यसो गर्‍यौ भने तिमीहरू त्यसद्वारा पासोमा पर्ने छौ किनकि यो परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरको निम्ति घृणित कुरो हो ।

You must burn the wooden idols [that represent] their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold [decorations] that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap [to cause you to want to worship those idols]. Yahweh hates [the worship of those idols].

26 तिमीहरूका घरमा कुनै पनि घृणित वस्तु ल्याएर त्यसको पुजा गर्न नथाल्नू । त्यसलाई पूर्ण रूपमा घृणा गर्नू र तिरस्कार गर्नू किनकि यो विनाशको निम्ति अलग गरिएको हो ।

You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise [DOU] those idols, because they are things that [Yahweh] has cursed.”