प्रस्थान 1
1 याकूबसँगै मिश्रमा आउने इस्राएलका छोराहरूका नाउँ यी नै हुन्:
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
2 रूबेन, शिमियोन, लेवी र यहूदा,
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 इस्साखार, जबूलून, र बेन्यामीन,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 दान, नप्ताली, गाद र आशेर ।
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5 याकूबका जम्मा सन्तानको सङ्ख्या सत्तरी जना थियो । योसेफ पहिले नै मिश्रमा थिए ।
All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
6 त्यसपछि योसेफ, तिनका सबै दाजुहरू र त्यो सबै पुस्ता मरे ।
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
7 इस्राएलीहरू फल्दै-फुल्दै र सङ्ख्यामा अत्यधिक बढ्दै गए, अनि तिनीहरू शक्तिशाली भए र तिनीहरूद्वारा देश भरियो ।
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 त्यसपछि योसेफको बारेमा थाहा नपाउने नयाँ राजाले शासन गर्न थाले ।
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
9 तिनले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई भने, “हेर, इस्राएलीहरू सङ्ख्यामा हामीभन्दा बढी भएका छन् र तिनीहरू हामीभन्दा शक्तिशाली भएका छन् ।
He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10 आओ, तिनीहरूसित बुद्धिमानीपूर्वक काम गरौँ नत्रभने तिनीहरूको सङ्ख्या वृद्धि भइरहनेछ । युद्ध भयो भने तिनीहरू हाम्रा शत्रुहरूसित मिल्न गई हाम्रै विरुद्धमा लड्नेछन् र देश छाडेर जानेछन् ।”
Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
11 त्यसैले तिनीहरूलाई कठोर काम लगाएर तिनीहरूमाथि थिचोमिचो गर्न तिनीहरूले नाइकेहरू खटाए । इस्राएलीहरूले पिताम र रामसेस नामक भण्डारका सहरहरू बनाए ।
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
12 तर जति मिश्रीहरूले इस्राएलीहरूमाथि थिचोमिचो गरे त्यति नै तिनीहरूको सङ्ख्या बढ्दै गएर तिनीहरू फैलन थाले । त्यसैले मिश्रीहरू इस्राएलीहरूसित डराउन थाले ।
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
13 मिश्रीहरूले इस्राएलीहरूलाई निर्दयतापूर्वक काममा लगाए ।
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
14 मिश्रीहरूले मसला र इँटको कामसाथै खेतका कठिन कामहरू गर्न लगाएर तिनीहरूका जीवनै खल्लो बनाइदिए । तिनीहरूले लगाएका कामहरू कठिन थिए ।
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
15 तब मिश्रका राजाले शिप्रा र पूआ नाम गरेका हिब्रू सुँडिनीहरूलाई भने,
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
16 “हिब्रू स्त्रीहरूले बच्चा जन्माउने बेलामा तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूको हेरचाह गर्दा अवलोकन गर । छोरो रहेछ भने तिमीहरूले त्यसलाई मार ।
and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
17 तर छोरी रहेछ भने त्यसलाई जीवितै राख ।” तर सुँडिनीहरू परेमश्वरदेखि डराउँथे । त्यसैले तिनीहरूले मिश्रका राजाले आज्ञा दिएबमोजिम गरेनन्, बरु तिनीहरूले छोराहरूलाई पनि जीवितै राखे ।
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
18 मिश्रका राजाले तिनीहरूलाई बोलाएर भने, “तिमीहरूले किन यसो गरेर छोराहरूलाई पनि जीवितै राखेका छ्यौ?”
The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
19 ती सुँडिनीहरूले फारोलाई जवाफ दिए, “हिब्रू स्त्रीहरू मिश्री स्त्रीहरूजस्ता छैनन् । तिनीहरू हट्टाकट्टा छन् र सुँडिनी पुग्नुभन्दा पहिले नै तिनीहरूले बच्चा जन्माइसकेका हुन्छन् ।
The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
20 परमेश्वरले यी सुँडिनीहरूलाई जोगाउनुभयो । इस्राएलीहरू सङ्ख्यामा बढ्दै गए र तिनीहरू शक्तिशाली भए ।
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
21 सुँडिनीहरू परमेश्वरदेखि डराएकाले उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई परिवार दिनुभयो ।
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
22 फारोले आफ्ना सबै मानिसलाई आज्ञा दिए, “जन्मेको हरेक छोरोलाई तिमीहरूले नदीमा फ्याँक्नू, तर छोरीलाई भने जीवितै राख्नू ।”
Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
