< उत्पत्ति 12 >

1 परमप्रभुले अब्रामलाई भन्‍नुभयो, “तेरो देश, तेरा नातेदारहरू र तेरो पिताको घरानाबाट मैले तँलाई देखाउने मुलुकतिर जा ।
Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you.
2 म तँलाई ठुलो जाति बनाउनेछु, म तँलाई आशिष् दिनेछु, तेरो नाउँ महान् हुनेछ र तँ आशिष् हुनेछस् ।
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
3 तँलाई आशिष् दिनेलाई म आशिष् दिनेछु, तर तँलाई अनादर गर्नेलाई म सराप दिनेछु । तँद्वारा नै पृथ्वीका सबै परिवारहरूले आशिष् पाउनेछन् ।
I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
4 यसैले परमप्रभुले भन्‍नुभएबमोजिम अब्राम गए र लोत पनि तिनीसँगै गए । हारान छोडेर जाँदा अब्राम पचहत्तर वर्षका थिए ।
And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 अब्रामले तिनकी पत्‍नी साराई, तिनका भतिजा लोत, तिनीहरूले हारानमा जम्‍मा गरेका सम्पत्ति र प्राप्‍त गरेका मानिसहरू सबै लगे । तिनीहरू कनानको भूमिमा जानलाई हिँडे र कनानको भूमिमा आइपुगे ।
And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it,
6 अब्राम त्यो भूमि हुँदै शकेममा भएको मोरेको फलाँटको रुखसम्म गए । त्यस बेला त्यो भूमिमा कनानीहरू बस्थे ।
Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land.
7 परमप्रभु अब्रामकहाँ देखा पर्नुभयो र भन्‍नुभयो, “यो भूमि म तेरा सन्तानहरूलाई दिनेछु ।” यसैले अब्रामले तिनीकहाँ देखा पर्नुहुने परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाए ।
Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 त्यहाँबाट तिनी बेथेलको पूर्वतिरको देशतिर गए, जहाँ तिनले बेथेललाई पश्‍चिमतिर र ऐलाई पूर्वतिर पारेर तिनको पाल टाँगे । त्यहाँ तिनले एउटा वेदी बनाए र परमप्रभुको नाउँको पुकारा गरे ।
And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name.
9 अनि अब्राम यात्रा गर्दै नेगेवतिर गए ।
And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south.
10 त्यो भूमिमा अनिकाल लागेको थियो, यसैले अब्राम बस्‍नलाई मिश्रतिर झरे (गए), किनकि त्यो भूमिमा निकै अनिकाल लागेको थियो ।
But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.
11 तिनी मिश्र प्रवेश गर्न लाग्दा, तिनले आफ्‍नी पत्‍नी साराईलाई भने, “हेर, तिमी कति सुन्दरी स्‍त्री छौ भनी म जान्दछु ।
And when he was close to entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: “I know you to be a beautiful woman.
12 मिश्रीहरूले तिमीलाई देख्‍दा 'यो यसकी पत्‍नी हो' भन्‍ने छन् र तिनीहरूले मलाई मार्ने छन्, तर तिनीहरूले तिमीलाईचाहिँ जीवितै राख्‍नेछन् ।
And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you.
13 यसैले तिमी मेरी बहिनी हौ भनी तिमीले भन, ताकि तिम्रो खातिर मेरो भलो होस् र तिम्रो खातिर मेरो जीवन बाँचोस् ।
Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor.”
14 मिश्र प्रवेश गर्न लग्दा साराई अति सुन्दरी थिइन् भनी मिश्रीहरूले देखे ।
And so, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was exceedingly beautiful.
15 फारोका अधिकारीहरूले तिनलाई देखे र फारोको सामु तिनको प्रशंसा गरे र ती स्‍त्रीलाई फारोको घरानामा लगियो ।
And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh.
16 फारोले तिनको खातिर अब्रामलाई राम्रो व्यवहार गरे र तिनलाई गोरु, गधाहरू, नोकरीहरू, गधैनीहरू र ऊँटहरू दिए ।
In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 अनि परमप्रभुले अब्रामकी पत्‍नी साराईको कारण फारो र तिनको परिवारमाथि ठुलो विपत्ति ल्याउनुभयो ।
But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram.
18 फारोले अब्रामलाई बोलाए र भने, “तिमीले मलाई यो के गरेको? तिनी तिम्रो पत्‍नी थिइन् भनी मलाई किन बताएनौ?
And Pharaoh called Abram, and he said to him: “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
19 'तिनी मेरी बहिनी हुन्' भनी तिमीले किन मलाई भन्यौ? त्यसैले मैले तिनलाई मेरी पत्‍नी बनाउन मैले लगेँ । यसकारण, तिम्रो पत्‍नी यहीँ छिन् । तिनलाई लेऊ र आफ्‍नो बाटो लाग ।
For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go.”
20 अनि फारोले तिनको बारेमा आफ्‍ना मानिसहरूलाई आदेश दिए र तिनीहरूले तिनलाई तिनकी पत्‍नी र तिनीसँग भएका सबै थोकसहित पठाए ।
And Pharaoh instructed his men about Abram. And they led him away with his wife and all that he had.

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