एज्रा 8

1 राजा अर्तासास्तको शासनकालमा बेबिलोनबाट मसितै आएका परिवारका अगुवाहरू यिनै हुन्:

And these are the chief fathers, and their genealogy, who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

2 पीनहासका परिवारका– गेर्शोम । ईतामारका परिवारका– दानिएल । दाऊदका परिवारका– शकन्‍याहका छोरा हत्तूश,

Of the children of Phinehas, Gershom; of the children of Ithamar, Daniel; of the children of David, Hattush;

3 परोशका परिवारका– जकरिया र तिनीसँग दर्ता भएका १५० पुरुष जसको विवरण तिनको वंशावलीमा लेखिएको छ ।

of the children of Shecaniah, of the children of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.

4 पहत-मोआबका परिवारका– जरयाहका छोरा एल्‍यहोएनै र तिनीसँग २०० पुरुष थिए ।

Of the children of Pahath-Moab, Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

5 जत्तूका परिवारका– बेन यहासेल र तिनीसँग ३०० पुरुष थिए ।

Of the children of Shechaniah, the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.

6 आदीनका परिवारका– जोनाथनका छोरा एबेद र तिनीसँग ५० पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

7 एलामका परिवारका– अतल्‍याहका छोरा यशयाह र तिनीसँग ७० पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Elam, Isaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.

8 शपत्‍याहका परिवारका– मिखाएलका छोरा जबदियाह र तिनीसँग ८० पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty males.

9 योआबका परिवारका– यहीएलका छोरा ओबदिया र तिनीसँग २१८ पुरुष थिए ।

Of the children of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

10 बानीका परिवारका– योसिपियाका छोरा शलोमीत र तिनीसँग १६० पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred and sixty males.

11 बेबैका परिवारका– बेबैका छोरा जकरिया, र तिनीसँग २८ पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males.

12 अज्‍गादका परिवारका– हक्‍कातानका छोरा योहानान र तिनीसँग ११० पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten males.

13 अदोनीकामका परिवारका– पछि आएका एलीपेलेत, यीएल र शमायाह, र तिनीहरूसँग ६० पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Adonikam, the last ones, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.

14 बिग्‍वैको परिवारका– उत्तै र जक्‍कूर, र तिनीहरूसँग ७० पुरुष थिए ।

And of the children of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

15 मैले यात्रुहरूलाई अहावातिर बग्‍ने नहरमा जम्मा गरें, र हामीले त्यहाँ तिन दिनसम्म छाउनी हाल्‍यौं । मैले मानिसहरू र पुजारीहरूको जाँच गरें तर त्यहाँ लेवीका सन्तानहरू कोही पनि पाइनँ ।

And I gathered them together at the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days; and I surveyed the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there.

16 त्यसैले एलीएजर, अरीएल, शमायाह, एल्‍नातान, यारीब र एल्‍नातान र नातान, जकरिया र मशुल्‍लाम जो अगुवाहरू थिए, अनि योयारीब र एल्‍नातान जो शिक्षकहरू थिए, तिनीहरूलाई मैले बोलाएँ ।

And I sent for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men, and for Joiarib and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

17 त्यसपछि मैले तिनीहरूलाई कासिपियाका अगुवा इद्दोकहाँ पठाएँ । इद्दो र तिनका आफन्तहरू, कासिपियामा बसिरहेका मन्दिरका सेवकहरूकहाँ गएर हामीकहाँ परमेश्‍वरको मन्दिरका लागि सेवकहरू पठाइदिनुहोस् भनी तिनीहरूलाई भन्‍न लगाएँ ।

And I gave them a commission to Iddo the chief, at the place Casiphia, and I put words in their mouths to say to Iddo [and] his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

18 त्यसैले हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरको भलो गर्ने हातद्वारा तिनीहरूले बुद्धिमान् मानिस शरेबियाहलाई हामीकहाँ पठाइदिए । तिनी इस्राएलका छोरा लेवीका छोरा महलीका परिवारका थिए । तिनी अठार छोरा र दाजुभाइसँगै आए ।

And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely, Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

19 तिनीसँगै हशब्याह पनि आए । त्यहाँ मरारीका छोराहरूमध्येका एक अर्थात् यशयाह र तिनका दाजुभाइ र तिनीहरूका छोराहरू गरी जम्मा बिस जना पुरुष थिए ।

and Hashabiah, and with him Isaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

20 दाऊद र तिनका अधिकारीहरूले लेवीहरूलाई सहायता गर्न मन्दिरमा सेवा गर्ने यस्ता सेवकहरूको नियुक्त गरेका, २२० जना त्यस्ता मानिसहरूको पनि नाउँ दर्ता गरिए ।

and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were expressed by name.

21 त्यसपछि परमप्रभुको सामु आफैलाई विनम्र तुल्याउन, र हामी, हाम्रा बालबच्‍चा अनि हाम्रा सबै सम्पत्तिको लागि सोझो मार्गको खोजी गर्न मैले अहावा नहरमा उपवासको घोषणा गरें ।

And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

22 बाटोमा शत्रुहरूबाट हाम्रो रक्षा गर्नका लागि राजासँग सेना वा घोडचढीहरू माग्‍न म लजाएँ किनकि हामीले राजालाई भनेका थियौं, 'हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरको खोजी गर्ने सबैमाथि सदाको लागि उहाँको हात रहेको हुन्छ, तर उहाँलाई त्याग्‍नेहरू सबैमाथि उहाँको शक्ति र क्रोध पर्छ ।'

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way; for we had spoken to the king saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his anger is against all them that forsake him.

23 त्यसैले यस विषयमा हामीले उपवास बस्‍यौं, र परमेश्‍वरको खोजी गर्‍यौं, अनि हामीले उहाँलाई बिन्ती चढायौं ।

And we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he was entreated of us.

24 त्यसपछि मैले पुजारीय अधिकारीहरूबाट बाह्र जना मानिस छानें: शरेबियाह र जशब्याह अनि तिनीहरूका दस जना दाजुभाइ थिए ।

And I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

25 राजा, तिनका सल्लाहकारहरू र अधिकारीहरू अनि सारा इस्राएलीले परमेश्‍वरको मन्दिरको लागि सित्तैंमा दिएका चाँदी, सुन, चिजहरू र भेटीहरू मैले तिनीहरूका निम्ति तौलें ।

and I weighed to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the heave-offering for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors and his princes, and all Israel present, had offered.

26 मैले तिनीहरूका हातमा बाइस हजार किलो चाँदी, चौतिस सय किलो चाँदीका वस्तुहरू, चौतिस सय किलोग्राम सुन,

And I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver; and silver vessels a hundred talents, [and] of gold a hundred talents;

27 आठ किलो सुनका बाटाहरू र सुनजस्तै बहुमूल्य काँसाका दुईवटा भाँडा दिएँ ।

and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.

28 तब मैले तिनीहरूलाई भनें, “तिमीहरू र यी वस्तुहरू परमप्रभुका निम्ति समर्पण गरिएका छन् । चाँदी र सुन तिमीहरूका पुर्खाहरूका परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वरको निम्ति स्वेच्छिक भेटी हुन् ।

And I said to them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah; the vessels also are holy; and the silver and the gold is a voluntary offering to Jehovah the God of your fathers.

29 यरूशलेममा परमेश्‍वरको मन्दिरका कोठाहरूमा भएका पुजारीका अधिकारीहरू, लेवीहरू र परिवारका अगुवाहरूको सामु यी जोखेर नदिएसम्म तिमीहरूले यिनको रेखदेख गरी सुरक्षित राख्‍नू ।”

Watch and keep [them] until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.

30 यरूशलेममा हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरको मन्दिरमा लैजानलाई तौलिएका ति चाँदी, सुन र वस्तुहरू पुजारीहरू र लेवीहरूले जिम्‍मा लिएर राखे ।

And the priests and the Levites received by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

31 पहिलो महिनाको बाह्रौं दिनमा हामी अहावा नहरबाट यरूशलेम प्रस्थान गर्‍यौं । हामीमाथि हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरको हात थियो । उहाँले हामीलाई शत्रु र बाटोमा लुकेर बसेका लुटेराहरूको हातबाट सुरक्षा दिनुभयो ।

And we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

32 यसरी हामी यरूशलेम प्रवेश गर्‍यौं, र त्यहाँ तिन दिन बस्यौं।

And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

33 तब चौथो दिनमा चाँदी, सुन र वस्तुहरू तौलेर हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरको घरमा उरियाह पुजारीका छोरा मरेमोत र तिनको साथमा भएका पीनहासका छोरा एलाजार, यशूअका छोरा योजाबाद, लेवी बिन्‍नूईका छोरा नोअदिया हातमा जिम्मा लगाइयो ।

And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Urijah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites:

34 हरेक कुराको सङ्ख्या र तौल जाँच गरियो । त्यस बेला सबै कुराको तौल लेखेर राखियो ।

the whole by number and by weight; and all the weight was written down at that time.

35 निर्वासन अर्थात् कैदबाट फर्केर आएकाहरूले इस्राएलका परमेश्‍वरको निम्ति होमबलिहरू चढाए । तिनीहरूले सारा इस्राएलीका निम्ति बाह्रवटा साँढे, पापबलिको रूपमा छयानब्बेवटा भेडा, सतहत्तरवटा थुमा र बाह्रवटा बोका चढाए । यी सबै परमप्रभुका निम्ति होमबलि थिए ।

The children of those that had been carried away, who had come out of the captivity, presented burnt-offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all for a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

36 तब तिनीहरूले यूफ्रेटिस नदीपारिको प्रान्तमा बस्‍ने राजाका उच्‍च अधिकारीहरू र गभर्नरहरूलाई राजाको आदेश दिए, अनि तिनीहरूले मानिसहरू र परमेश्‍वरको मन्दिरलाई मदत गरे ।

And they delivered the king's edicts to the king's satraps, and to the governors on this side the river. And they furthered the people and the house of God.