प्रस्थान 23

1 कसैको बारेमा झुटा गवाही नदेओ । बेइमानी गवाही दिने दुष्‍ट मानिससित नमिल ।

Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

2 खराबी गर्न भिडको पछि नलाग, न त न्यायलाई बङ्ग्याउन भिडको पक्ष लेओ ।

Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

3 गरिब मानिसको मुद्दामा उसको पक्षपात नगर ।

But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

4 आफ्नो शत्रुको गोरु वा गधा बिच्केर जाँदै गरेको देख्यौ भने त्यसलाई फर्काएर त्यसकहाँ ल्याइदेओ ।

If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

5 तिमीहरूलाई घृणा गर्ने कुनै व्यक्तिको गधा भारीले थिचिएर भुइँमा लडेको देख्यौ भने त्यसलाई त्यत्तिकै नछोड । गधासँगै मदत गर ।

If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

6 मुद्दा मामिलामा गरिबहरूको न्याय हरण नगर ।

Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

7 झुटा गवाही दिन अरूहरूसित नमिल, र निर्दोष वा धर्मीहरूलाई नमार किनकि म दुष्‍टहरूलाई कहिल्यै निर्दोष ठहराउनेछैनँ ।

Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

8 कहिल्यै घुस नलेओ किनकि घुसले देख्‍नेहरूलाई अन्धो तुल्याइदिन्छ र इमानदार मानिसहरूका वचनलाई बङ्ग्याइदिन्छ ।

Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

9 परदेशीलाई थिचोमिचो नगर किनकि तिमीहरू मिश्र देशमा परदेशी भएर बाँचेकाले परदेशीको जीवन कस्तो हुन्छ भनी तिमीहरू जान्दछौ ।

Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

10 छ वर्षसम्म तिमीहरूले आ-आफ्ना जमिनमा बिउ रोपी फसल जम्मा गर ।

For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

11 तर सातौँ वर्षमा चाहिँ हलो नजोती त्यसलाई बाँझै छाडिदेओ ताकि तिमीहरूका बिचमा भएका गरिब मानिसहरूले खान सकून् । तिनीहरूले छाडेका जङ्गली जनावरहरूले खानेछन् । तिमीहरूका दाखबारी र भद्राक्षबारीलाई पनि त्यसै गर ।

But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

12 छ दिनसम्म आफ्नो काम गर, तर सातौँ दिनमा चाहिँ विश्राम गर । तिमीहरूका गोरु र गधाले पनि विश्राम पाउन सकून् भनेर यसो गर अनि तिमीहरूका कमारीको छोरो र परदेशीले पनि ताजा महसुस गर्न सकून् भनेर यस गर ।

For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

13 मैले तिमीहरूलाई भनेका हरेक कुरामा ध्यान देओ । अरू देवी-देवताहरूको चर्चा नगर, न त तिमीहरूका मुखबाट तिनीहरूको नाउँ नै सुनियोस् ।

Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

14 मेरो निम्ति चाड मान्‍न हरेक वर्ष तिन पटक यात्रा गर ।

Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.

15 तिमीहरूले अखमिरी रोटीको चाड मान्‍नू । मैले आज्ञा गरेझैँ तिमीहरूले सात दिनसम्म अखमिरी रोटी खानू । त्यस बेला तिमीहरू आबीब महिनामा मेरो सामु देखा पर्नू जुन यही उद्देश्यको लागि तयार पारिएको हो । तिमीहरू यही महिनामा मिश्रबाट बाहिर निस्केर आयौ । तर तिमीहरू खाली हात मेरो सामु देखा नपर्नू ।

You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:

16 तिमीहरूले आफ्ना खेतहरूमा बिउ छर्दा तिमीहरूको परिश्रमको अगौटे फलको सम्झनामा कटनीको चाड मान्‍नू । खेतहरूबाट तिमीहरूले अन्‍न बटुल्दा वर्षको अन्त्यमा तिमीहरूले अन्‍न भित्र्याउने चाड मनाओ ।

And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

17 तिमीहरूका सबै पुरुष हरेक वर्ष तिन पटक परमप्रभुको सामु देखा पर्नू ।

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.

18 मलाई चढाउने बलिको रगत खमिर हालेको रोटीसितै नचढाओ । मेरा चाडहरूमा चढाइने बलिदानहरूको बोसो रातभरि रहेर बिहानसम्म रहनुहुँदैन ।

Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.

19 तिमीहरूले मेरो घर अर्थात् परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरको घरमा अगौटे फलहरूमध्ये सबैभन्दा असलचाहिँ ल्याउनू । बाख्राको पाठो त्यसको माउको दूधमा नपकाओ ।

The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

20 बाटोमा तिमीहरूको सुरक्षा दिन र मैले तिमीहरूका निम्ति तयार पारिराखेको ठाउँमा तिमीहरूलाई ल्याउन म तिमीहरूका अगिअगि एउटा दूत पठाउनेछु ।

See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.

21 तिनको कुरा सुनी तिनको आज्ञा पालन गर । तिनलाई नचिढ्याओ किनकि तिनले तिमीहरूका अपराधहरू क्षमा दिनेछैनन् । तिनैमा मेरो नाउँ छ ।

Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.

22 तिमीहरूले वास्तवमै तिनका आज्ञा मान्यौ र मैले भनेका हरेक कुरा गर्‍यौ भने म तिमीहरूका शत्रुहरूका शत्रु हुनेछु र तिमीहरूका वैरीहरूका वैरी हुनेछु ।

But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.

23 मेरा दूत तिमीहरूका अगिअगि जानेछन् र तिनले तिमीहरूलाई एमोरी, हित्ती, परिज्‍जी, कनानी, हिव्वी र यबूसीहरूकहाँ ल्याउनेछन् । म तिनीहरूलाई नष्‍ट गर्नेछु ।

And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.

24 तिमीहरू तिनीहरूका देवी-देवताहरूको सामु ननिहरनू, तिनीहरूको पूजा नगर्नू न त तिनीहरूले गरेजस्तै गर्नू । बरु तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई बिलकुलै नाश गरिदिनू र तिनीहरूका ढुङ्गाका मूर्तिहरूलाई टुक्राटुक्रा पारिदिनू ।

Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

25 तिमीहरूले परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरको आराधना गर्नू, अनि उहाँले तिमीहरूका अन्‍न र पानीमा आशिष् दिनुहुनेछ । म तिमीहरूका बिचबाट रोग हटाइदिनेछु ।

And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

26 तिमीहरूको देशमा कुनै पनि स्‍त्री बाँझी हुनेछैन न त कसैको गर्भ तुहिनेछ ।

All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

27 म तिमीहरूलाई दीर्घायु दिनेछु । तिमीहरू अगाडि बढ्ने देशमा म मेरो डर अगिअगि पठाउनेछु । म तिमीहरूले भेट्ने सबै मानिसलाई मार्नेछु । म तिमीहरूका सबै शत्रुलाई तिमीहरूको डरको कारणले भगाउनेछु ।

I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

28 म तिमीहरूका अगिअगि अरिङ्गालहरू पठाउनेछु जसले हिव्वी, कनानी र हित्तीहरूलाई तिमीहरूभन्दा अगाडि नै धपाउनेछन् ।

I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.

29 म तिनीहरूलाई एकै वर्षमा तिमीहरूको सामुन्‍नेबाट धपाउनेछैनँ, नत्रता देश उजाड हुनेछ र जङ्गली जनावरहरू तिमीहरूका निम्ति अत्यधिक हुनेछन् ।

I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.

30 बरु, तिमीहरूको वृद्धि भई तिमीहरू देशमा नभरिएसम्म म तिनीहरूलाई तिमीहरूकै सामु अलिअलि गरेर धपाउनेछु ।

Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

31 नर्कटहरूको समुद्रदेखि पलिश्तिहरूको समुद्रसम्म र उजाड-स्थानदेखि यूफ्रेटिस नदीसम्म म तिमीहरूका सिमाना तोकिदिनेछु । त्यस देशका बासिन्दाहरूमाथि म तिमीहरूलाई विजय दिनेछु । तिमीहरूले तिमीहरूकै सामु तिनीहरूलाई धपाउनेछौ ।

I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

32 तिनीहरूसित वा तिनीहरूका देवी-देवताहरूसित करार नबाँध्‍नू ।

Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

33 तिनीहरू तिमीहरूको देशमा बस्‍नुहुँदैन नत्रता तिनीहरूले तिमीहरूलाई मेरो विरुद्धमा पाप गर्न लगाउनेछन् । तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूका देवी-देवताहरूलाई पुजा गर्‍यौ भने निश्‍चय नै यो तिमीहरूका लागि पासो हुनेछ ।”

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.