प्रस्थान 4
1 मोशाले जवाफ दिए, “तर तिनीहरूले विश्वास गरेनन् वा मेरो कुरा नसुनी 'परमप्रभु तिमीकहाँ देखा पर्नुभएको होइन' भनेमा के गर्ने नि?”
Moses/I replied, “But what if [the Israeli people] (do not believe me/are not convinced) or not do what I tell them? What if they say, ‘Yahweh did not appear to you!’”
2 परमप्रभुले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “तेरो हातमा के छ?” मोशाले भने, “लट्ठी ।”
Yahweh said to him/me, “[Look at] that thing you are holding in your hand. What is it?” He/I replied, “A (walking stick/shepherd’s stick).”
3 परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “त्यसलाई भुइँमा फाल् ।” मोशाले त्यसलाई भुइँमा फाले र त्यो सर्प भयो । मोशा दौडेर भागे ।
He said, “Throw it down on the ground!” So, he/I threw it on the ground, and it became a snake! And he/I ran/jumped away from it.
4 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्नुभयो, “तेरो हात पसारेर त्यसको पुच्छर समात् ।” त्यसैले तिनले आफ्नो हात पसारेर त्यस सर्पलाई समाते । त्यो फेरि तिनको हातमा लट्ठी भयो ।
But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Reach down and pick it up by its tail!” So he/I reached down and caught it, and [when he/I picked it up], it became a stick in his/my hand [again.]
5 “तिनीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाका परमप्रभु परमेश्वर अर्थात् अब्राहामका परमेश्वर, इसहाकका परमेश्वर र याकूबका परमेश्वर तँकहाँ देखा पर्नुभएको थियो भनी तिनीहरूले विश्वास गरून् भन्नाका लागि यो चिन्ह हुनेछ ।”
Yahweh said, “[Do the same thing in front of the Israeli people], in order that they may believe that [I], Yahweh God, the one Abraham and Isaac and Jacob worshiped, truly appeared to you.”
6 परमप्रभुले तिनलाई यसो पनि भन्नुभयो, “अब तेरो हात आफ्नो खास्टोभित्र राख् ।” त्यसैले मोशाले आफ्नो हात खास्टोभित्र राखे । तिनले बाहिर निकाल्दा तिनको हातमा हिउँजस्तै सेतो कुष्ठरोग लागेको थियो ।
Yahweh spoke to Moses/me again, saying “Put your hand inside your robe [MTY]!” He/I did that. And when he/I took it out again, [surprisingly], his/my hand was white. It had a skin disease [that made it] as white as snow.
7 परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “फेरि तेरो हात खास्टोभित्र राख् ।” त्यसैले मोशाले आफ्नो हात खास्टोभित्र राखे र तिनले हात बाहिर निकाल्दा त्यो तिनको शरीरको अरू मासुजस्तै स्वस्थ भएको थियो ।
Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your robe [MTY]!” So he/I did that, and when he/I took it out again, surprisingly, it was normal again, just like the rest of his/my body!
8 परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “तिनीहरूले मेरो शक्तिको पहिलो चिन्हलाई ध्यान दिएनन् वा विश्वास गरेनन् भने तिनीहरूले दोस्रो चिन्हलाई विश्वास गर्नेछन् ।
God said, “[You can do that in front of the Israeli people, too]. If they do not pay attention to what you say because of [seeing] the first miracle, they will (believe [you/be convinced) when you perform] the second miracle.
9 तिनीहरूले मेरो शक्तिका यी दुईवटै चिन्हलाई पनि विश्वास गरेनन् वा तेरो कुरा सुनेनन् भने नदीबाट थोरै पानी लिएर जा र त्यसलाई सुक्खा भूमिमा खन्या । तैँले लिएर जाने पानी सुक्खा भूमिमा रगत बन्नेछ ।”
If they do not believe you or do what you say, even [after you perform] those two miracles, get some water from the Nile [River] and pour it on the ground. [When you do that], the water from the river that you pour on the ground will become blood [MTY] (OR, [red like] blood).”
10 तब मोशाले परमप्रभुलाई भने, “हे प्रभु, म बोल्नमा सिपालु छैनँ, न पहिले थिएँ न त तपाईं आफ्ना दाससित बोल्नुभएपछि नै । म बोल्न र जिब्रो चलाउनमा सुस्त छु ।”
Moses/I replied, “O Yahweh! I am not an eloquent [speaker]! I was not an eloquent speaker before, and I have not become one since you started talking to me! I am not a good speaker [MTY], and I speak very slowly.”
11 परमप्रभुले तिनलाई भन्नुभयो, “मानिसको मुख बनाउने को हो? मानिसलाई गुँगो वा बैरो वा दृष्टिविहीन बनाउने को हो? के म परमप्रभुले नै होइनँ र?
Then Yahweh said to him/me, “[You seem to forget] who it is that makes people able to speak [RHQ]! Who is it that enables people to be unable to speak or unable to hear, or able to see or not to see? It is I, Yahweh [RHQ]!
12 त्यसैले अब जा र म तेरो मुखमा भएर के भन्ने भनी तँलाई सिकाउनेछु ।”
So start going [to Egypt], and I will help you to speak [MTY], and I will tell you what you should say.”
13 तर मोशाले भने, “हे प्रभु, तपाईंले इच्छा गर्नुभएको अरू कसैलाई पठाउनुहोस् ।”
But he/I replied, “O, Yahweh, I ask you, please send someone else [instead]!”
14 तब परमप्रभु मोशासित रिसाउनुभयो र भन्नुभयो, “तेरो दाजु लेवी हारून छैन र? त्यसले राम्ररी बोल्न सक्छ भनी मलाई थाहा छ । यसको अतिरिक्त, त्यो तँलाई भेट्न आउँदै छ र त्यसले तँलाई देख्दा त्यो ह्रदयमा खुसी हुनेछ ।
Then Yahweh became very angry with Moses/me. He said, “[What about] your [older] brother Aaron, who is [also] a descendant of Levi? I know that he is a very good/eloquent speaker. He is actually on his way here [right now], and he will be very happy to see you.
15 तँ त्योसित कुरा गर् र त्यसले भन्नुपर्ने कुरा त्यसलाई बताइदे । म तिमीहरू दुवैसित हुनेछु र के गर्ने भनी म तिमीहरू दुवैलाई देखाउनेछु ।
You can talk to him and tell him what to say [MTY], and I will help both of you [SYN] to know what to say [MTY]. And I will tell you both what you should do.
16 त्यसले तेरो लागि मानिसहरूसित बोल्नेछ । त्यो तेरो प्रवक्ता हुनेछ र तँ त्यसको लागि मजस्तै परमेश्वर हुनेछस् ।
He will speak for you to the [Israeli] people. He will be (your spokesman/as though he was your mouth) [MET], and you will be to him as though you are [his] god.
17 तैँले तेरो हातमा यो लट्ठी लैजा । यसले तैँले चिन्हहरू गर्नेछस् ।”
[Be sure] to take with you the walking/shepherd’s stick [that is in your hand], because you will perform miracles with it.”
18 त्यसैले मोशा आफ्ना ससुरा यित्रोकहाँ गई तिनलाई भने, “मलाई मिश्रमा भएका मेरा आफन्तहरू जीवितै छन् कि छैनन् भनी हेर्न फर्केर जान दिनुहोस् ।” यित्रोले मोशालाई भने, “शान्तिसित जाऊ ।”
Moses/I returned to his/my father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go back to Egypt, to see my fellow Israelis there. I want to know if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses/me, “Go, and may [God give you inner] peace.”
19 परमप्रभुले मिद्यानमा मोशालाई भन्नुभयो, “फर्केर मिश्रमा जा किनकि तेरो जीवन लिन खोज्नेहरू सबै मरिसकेका छन् ।”
Yahweh said to Moses/me [before he/I left] Midian, “You can [safely] return to Egypt, because the men who were wanting to kill you [MTY] are [now] dead.”
20 आफ्नी पत्नी र आफ्ना छोराहरू गधामा चढाएर मोशा बाटो लागे । तिनी मिश्र देशमा फर्के र तिनले परमेश्वरको लट्ठी आफूसँगै लगेका थिए ।
So Moses/I took his/my wife and sons and put them on donkeys, and they/we returned to Egypt. And Moses/I took in his/my hand the stick that God [told him/me to take along].
21 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्नुभयो, “तँ मिश्रमा फर्केर जाँदा मैले तेरो शक्तिमा राखिदिएका सबै अचम्मका कामहरू तैँले फारोको सामु गरेर देखा । तर म त्यसको ह्रदय कठोर पार्नेछु र त्यसले मानिसहरूलाई जान दिनेछैन ।
Yahweh said to Moses/me, “When you return to Egypt, be sure to perform all the miracles that I have given you power [to do], while the king is watching. But I will make him stubborn [IDM], with the result that he will not let the Israeli people leave [Egypt].
22 तैँले फारोलाई यसो भन्नू, “परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, 'इस्राएल मेरो जेठो छोरो हो,
Then say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh says: “The Israeli [people] [MTY] are [as dear to] me as firstborn sons [MET].
23 र म तँलाई भन्दछु, 'मेरो छोरोलाई जान दे ताकि त्यसले मेरो आराधना गरोस् ।' तर तैँले त्यसलाई जान दिन इन्कार गरेकोले निश्चय नै म तेरो जेठो छोरोलाई मार्नेछु' ।”
I told you to let my people [MTY] leave [Egypt], in order that they may worship me [in the desert]. If you refuse to let them go, I warn you, I will kill your firstborn son!”’”
24 अब बाटोमा बास बस्ने ठाउँमा तिनीहरू रोकिँदा परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भेटी तिनलाई मार्न खोज्नुभयो ।
[One night], as they were camping on the way [to Egypt], Yahweh appeared to Moses/me. He wanted/threatened to kill Moses/me [for disobeying his command that boys/sons be circumcised].
25 त्यसपछि सिप्पोराले चकमके कर्द लिई आफ्नो छोरोको खलडी काटेर त्यसलाई मोशाको खुट्टामा छुवाइन् ।
Then [his/my wife] Zipporah took a flint knife and circumcised her son. Then she touched the boy’s feet (OR, genitals) with the piece of skin [she had cut off], and she said, “The blood [which flowed when I circumcised you] will protect you [from being harmed by Yahweh] [MET].”
26 तब उनले भनिन्, “निश्चय नै तपाईं रगतद्वारा मेरो दुलहा हुनुहुन्छ ।” त्यसैले परमप्रभुले तिनलाई एक्लै छाडिदिनुभयो । यो खतनाको कारणले “तपाईं मेरो दुलहा हुनुहुन्छ” भनी उनले भनिन् ।
She said to him, “You are safe now [MET] because you have been circumcised.” So Yahweh did not harm her son.
27 परमप्रभुले हारूनलाई भन्नुभयो, “उजाड-स्थानमा मोशालाई भेट्न जा ।” हारून गए र तिनले मोशालाई परमेश्वरको पर्वतमा भेटी चुम्बन गरे ।
Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet/see Moses!” So he went [there from Egypt] and met him/me at [Sinai], the mountain dedicated to God, and [greeted him/me by] kissing him/me [on the cheek].
28 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भनेर पठाउनुभएका सबै कुरा र देखाउनू भनी आज्ञा गर्नुभएका सबै चिन्हको बारेमा मोशाले हारूनलाई बताए ।
Moses/I told Aaron everything that Yahweh had said to him/me when he told him/me to return to Egypt. He/I also told Aaron about all the miracles that Yahweh told him/me to perform.
29 तब मोशा र हारून गएर इस्राएलीहरूका सबै धर्म-गुरुलाई भेला गराए ।
[So Aaron and Moses/I] returned [to Egypt]. There they/we gathered together all the Israeli elders/leaders.
30 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्नुभएका सबै कुरा हारूनले बताए । तिनले परमप्रभुको शक्तिका चिन्हहरू पनि मानिसहरूका सामु गरेर देखाइदिए ।
Aaron told them everything that Yahweh had told Moses/me, and Aaron performed [all] the miracles as the people watched.
31 मानिसहरूले विश्वास गरे । परमप्रभुले इस्राएलीहरूको वास्ता गर्नुहुन्छ र उहाँले तिनीहरूमाथि गरिएको थिचोमिचो देख्नुभएको छ भनी जब तिनीहरूले सुने, तिनीहरूले आ-आफ्ना शिर झुकाई उहाँको आराधना गरे ।
They believed [that what they/we were saying was true]. When they heard that Yahweh had seen how the Israeli people were being cruelly oppressed and that he was going to help them, they bowed down and worshiped [Yahweh].
