लेवीहरू 23

1 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्‍नुभयो,

Yahweh said to Moses/me,

2 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई भन्, ‘परमप्रभुका निम्ति तोकिएका चाडहरू यी नै हुन्, जसलाई तिमीहरूले पवित्र सभाको रूपमा घोषणा गर्नू । यी मेरा नियमित चाडहरू हुन् ।

“Tell the Israeli people about the festivals that I have chosen, the days when you all must gather together [to worship me].”

3 तिमीहरू छ दिनसम्म काम गर्न सक्छौ, तर सातौँ दिनचाहिँ पूर्ण विश्रामको शबाथ अर्थात् पवित्र सभा हो । तिमीहरू बसोबास गर्ने कुनै पनि ठाउँमा काम नगर्नू किनभने त्यो परमप्रभुको निम्ति शबाथ हो ।

“You may work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must not do any work. You must rest. It is a sacred/holy day when you must gather together [to worship me]. Wherever you live, you must rest on that day.”

4 परमप्रभुका निम्ति तोकिएका चाडहरू यी नै हुन्, पवित्र सभाहरू जसलाई तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूका तोकिएका समयमा घोषणा गर्नू ।

“There are festivals that I have established for you. Those will also be sacred/holy days when you must gather together [to worship me].

5 पहिलो महिनाको चौधौँ दिनको साँझ परमप्रभुको निस्तार-चाड हो ।

[The first festival is] (the Passover/when you remember that I spared your ancestors when I killed all the firstborn Egyptian sons). That festival will begin at twilight/dusk/sunset on the chosen day (each spring/in March or April each year), [and end on the following day].

6 सोही महिनाको पन्ध्रौँ दिन परमप्रभुको निम्ति अखमिरी रोटीको चाड हो । सात दिनसम्म तिमीहरूले अखमिरी रोटी खानू ।

The next day, the Festival of Eating Bread That Has No Yeast will begin. That festival will continue for seven days. During that time, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast.

7 पहिलो दिनलाई तिमीहरूले भेला हुनको निम्ति छुट्‍ट्याउनू, र त्यस दिन तिमीहरूका कुनै पनि दैनिक काम नगर्नू ।

On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].

8 तिमीहरूले सात दिनसम्म परमप्रभुको निम्ति भोजनको भेटी अर्पण गर्ने छौ । सातौँ दिनचाहिँ परमप्रभुको निम्ति अलग गरिएको सभाको दिन हो, र त्यस दिन तिमीहरूले आफ्ना कुनै पनि दैनिक काम नगर्नू’ ।”

On each of the seven days, you must present to me [several animals to be] an offering/sacrifice to be completely burned [on the altar]. On the seventh day, you all must again stop your regular work and gather to worship me.”

9 परमप्रभु मोशासँग यसरी बोल्‍नुभयो,

Yahweh also told Moses/me

10 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई यसो भन्, ‘मैले तिमीहरूलाई दिन लागेको देशमा तिमीहरू पुगेर त्यहाँ फसलको कटनी गरेपछि तिमीहरूले बालीको पहिलो फलको एक बिटा पुजारीकहाँ ल्याउनू ।

to tell the Israeli people [about other festivals]. He said, “When you arrive in the land which I am giving to you, and you harvest your crops [for the first time] there, bring to the priest some of the first grain that you harvest.

11 त्यसले त्यो बालीको बिटालाई परमप्रभुको अगि डोलाउने छ र तिमीहरूका निम्ति त्यो स्वीकारियोस् भनेर त्यसले त्यो उहाँलाई अर्पण गर्ने छ । शबाथपछिको दिनमा पुजारीले त्यो डोलाएर मलाई अर्पण गर्ने छ ।

On the day after the [next] Sabbath/rest day, the priest will lift it up [high to dedicate it] to me, in order that I will accept it as your [gift].

12 बालीको बिटालाई डोलाएर मलाई अर्पण गर्ने दिनमा एक वर्षको निष्‍खोट थुमा होमबलिको रूपमा परमप्रभुलाई चढाउनू ।

That same day, you must sacrifice to me a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it [on the altar].

13 अन्‍नबलिचाहिँ परमप्रभुको निम्ति मिठो सुगन्ध दिनको निम्ति होमबलिको रूपमा तेलसँग मुछिएको एक पाथी मसिनो पिठो होस्, र अर्घबलिचाहिँ एक लिटर दाखमद्य होस् ।

You must also burn an offering of grain. That offering must consist of (three quarts/3.5 liters) of good flour mixed with [olive] oil. The smell [of those things burning] will be very pleasing to me. Along with that, you must also offer one quart/liter of wine, which will be a liquid offering.

14 यो बलि तिमीहरूले आफ्नो परमेश्‍वरकहाँ नल्याउने दिनसम्म तिमीहरूले रोटी, भुटेको अन्‍न वा हरियो अनाज केही नखानू । तिमीहरू बसोबास गर्ने हरेक ठाउँमा तिमीहरूका मानिसहरूको सबै वंशमा यो सदाको निम्ति विधि होस् ।

Do not eat any bread or any roasted grain or unroasted grain on that day until after you have brought those offerings to me, your God. You must always obey [LIT] those commands, wherever you live.”

15 शबाथ दिन अर्थात् डोलाउने बलिको रूपमा तिमीहरूले बालीको बिटा ल्याएको दिनपछि पुरै सात हप्‍ता गन्‍नू ।

“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,

16 सातौँ शबाथको पचास दिन तिमीहरूले गन्‍नू । त्यसपछि तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुलाई नयाँ अन्‍नको बलि चढाउनू ।

on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.

17 तिमीहरूका घरहरूबाट एक पाथी पिठोबाट बनेका दुईवटा रोटी ल्याउनू । त्यो मसिनो पिठो खमिर राखेर बनाइयोस् । ती परमप्रभुको निम्ति पहिलो फलको डोलाइने बलि हुने छन् ।

From your homes, bring two loaves of bread [to the priest]. He will lift them up [high to dedicate them] as an offering to me. Those loaves must be baked from three quarts/liters of good flour that has yeast mixed with it. That bread will be an offering to me from the first wheat that you harvest [each year].

18 रोटीसँगै तिमीहरूले एक वर्षे निष्‍खोट सातवटा थुमा, एउटा साँढेको बच्‍चा, र दुईवटा भेडा अर्पण गर्नू । तिनीहरूको अन्‍नबलि र अर्घबलिसँगै ती परमप्रभुको निम्ति मिठो सुगन्ध दिने होमबलि होऊन् ।

Along with this bread, you must present to me seven one-year-old lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. They must all be completely burned [on the altar]. All those offerings, with the grain offering and the wine offering, will be burned, and the smell [of all those things burning] will be very pleasing to me.

19 तिमीहरूले पापबलिको निम्ति एउटा बोका, र मेलबलिको निम्ति एक वर्षे दुईवटा थुमा बलिदानको निम्ति अर्पण गर्नू ।

Then you must also kill one male goat to be an offering/sacrifice for your sins, and two one-year-old male lambs to be an offering to enable you to maintain fellowship with me.

20 पहिलो फलको रोटीसँगै परमप्रभुको निम्ति पुजारीले ती डोलाओस्, र दुईवटा थुमासँगै ती बलिदानस्वरूप अर्पण गरोस् । ती पुजारीको निम्ति परमप्रभुलाई अर्पण गरिएको पवित्र बलिदान हुने छन् ।

The priest will lift up these offerings [high to dedicate them] to me. He will also offer the loaves of bread that were baked from the first wheat that you harvest. Those offerings are sacred to me, but they are for the priests [to eat].

21 त्यही दिन तिमीहरूले घोषणा गर्नू । त्यहाँ पवित्र सभा हुने छ, र तिमीहरूले गर्ने दैनिक काम नगर्नू । तिमीहरू बसोबास गर्ने सबै ठाउँमा तिमीहरूको वंशमा यो सदाको निम्ति विधि हुने छ ।

On that day, you must stop your regular work and gather to worship me. You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.

22 तिमीहरूले आफ्नो भूमिको फसल कटनी गर्दा आफ्ना भूमिको कुना-कुनामा कटनी नगर्नू, र आफ्नो फसलको शिला-बाला नबटुल्‍नू । ती तिमीहरूले गरिब र परदेशीका निम्ति छोडिदिनू । म परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वर हुँ’ ।”

“When you harvest the grain in your fields, do not harvest the grain along the edges of the fields, and do not pick up the grain that the harvesters drop. Leave that grain for the poor people and for the foreigners who are living among you. [Do not forget that it is] I, Yahweh your God, [who am commanding those things]!”

23 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्‍नुभयो,

Yahweh also told Moses/me

24 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई भन्, ‘सातौँ महिनाको पहिलो दिन तिमीहरूका निम्ति पवित्र विश्रामको दिन हुने छ, र त्यो दिन तुरही फुकेर सम्झना गरिने छ र पवित्र सभा हुने छ ।

to give these instructions/commands to the Israeli people: “[Each year] in September, on the day that I have chosen, you all must celebrate it by completely resting. You must not do any work on that day. When [the priests] blow their trumpets loudly, you all must gather together to worship me.

25 तिमीहरूले आफ्ना दैनिक काम नगर्नू, र तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुका निम्ति आगोद्वारा बलि अर्पण गर्नू’ ।”

All of you must not do your regular work on that day. Instead, you must present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].”

26 अनि परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्‍नुभयो,

Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

27 “सातौँ महिनाको दसौँ दिन प्रायश्‍चित्तको दिन हो । त्यस बेला एउटा पवित्र सभा होस्, र तिमीहरूले आफैलाई नम्र बनाएर परमप्रभुको निम्ति आगोद्वारा बलि अर्पण गर्नू ।

“You must celebrate a day [on which you request that I] forgive you for the sins that you have committed. That day will be nine days after the festival [when the priests blow] the trumpets. On that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food). You must gather together to worship me and present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].

28 त्यस दिन तिमीहरूले काम नगर्नू, किनभने परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरको अगि आफ्नै निम्ति प्रायश्‍चित्त गर्नलाई त्यो दिन प्रायश्‍चित्तको दिन हो ।

You must not do any work on that day, because it is the day when the priests will offer sacrifices to me to (atone for/ask me to forgive) your sins.

29 त्यस दिन आफैलाई नम्र नबनाउने मानिस आफ्ना मानिसहरूबाट बहिष्‍कृत होस् ।

You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.

30 त्यस दिन कुनै पनि काम गर्ने मानिसलाई म परमप्रभुले नै त्यसका मानिसहरूका बिचमा नष्‍ट गर्ने छु ।

I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.

31 तिमीहरूले त्यस दिन कुनै पनि प्रकारको काम नगर्नू । तिमीहरू बसोबास गर्ने सबै ठाउँमा तिमीहरूका मानिसहरूका सबै वंशमा सदाको निम्ति यो विधि बनोस् ।

You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.

32 यो दिन तिमीहरूका निम्ति पवित्र विश्रामको शबाथ होस्, र त्यस महिनाको नवौँ दिनको साँझ तिमीहरूले आफैलाई नम्र बनाउनू । अर्को दिनको साँझसम्म तिमीहरूले शबाथ मान्‍नू ।”

That day will be a day of complete rest for all of you, and on that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food) [to show that you are sorry for having sinned]. That day of rest and (fasting/abstaining from eating food) will begin on the evening before the day in which you ask me to forgive you for your sins, and it will end on the evening of the following day.”

33 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्‍नुभयो,

Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

34 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई भन्, ‘सातौँ महिनाको पन्ध्रौँ दिन परमप्रभुको निम्ति छाप्रो-बासको चाड हुने छ । त्यो सात दिनसम्म रहने छ ।

“Tell the Israeli people that [each year] they must also celebrate a festival of living in temporary shelters. That festival will begin five days after the day in which they request me to forgive them for their sins. It will last for seven days.

35 पहिलो दिनमा पवित्र सभा होस् । तिमीहरूले आफ्ना दैनिक काम नगर्नू ।

On the first day of that festival, the people must gather together to worship me, and they must not do any regular work on that day.

36 सात दिनसम्म परमप्रभुलाई आगोद्वारा बलिदान अर्पण गर्नू । आठौँ दिनमा पवित्र सभा होस्, र तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुको निम्ति आगोद्वारा बलिदान अर्पण गर्नू । यो एउटा पवित्र सभा हो, र तिमीहरूले आफ्ना दैनिक काम नगर्नू ।

On each of the seven days of the festival, they must present to me an offering [of animals] that will be burned [on the altar]. On the next day, they must gather again to worship me and present to me another animal that will be burned [on the altar]. That also will be a sacred gathering, and they must not work on that day, either.

37 यी परमप्रभुका निम्ति तोकिएका चाडहरू हुन्, जसलाई तिमीहरूले आगोद्वारा गरिने बलिदान, होमबलि र अन्‍नबलि, बलिदानहरू र अर्घबलिहरू आ-आफ्नै दिनमा अर्पण गर्नको निम्ति पवित्र सभाहरू भनेर घोषणा गर्नुपर्छ ।

“[To summarize], those are the festivals that I have appointed. Celebrate those sacred festivals by gathering together to present to me all the various offerings that will be burned [on the altar]—animals that will be burned completely, and offerings of grain, and offerings to enable the Israeli people to maintain fellowship with me, and offerings of wine. Each offering must be brought on the day that I have indicated.

38 परमप्रभुका निम्ति शबाथ, र तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुलाई दिने तिमीहरूका उपहारहरू, तिमीहरूका भाकलहरू, र तिमीहरूका सबै स्वेच्छा भेटीहरू बाहेक यी चाडहरू हुने छन् ।

(Those festivals must be celebrated/You must celebrate those festivals) in addition to [worshiping on] the (Sabbath days/days of rest). And all those offerings must be given in addition to the offerings that people personally decide to give, and in addition to the offerings that people make to accompany the solemn promises that they have made, or offerings that people make (voluntarily/because they themselves want to).

39 छाप्रो-बासको चाडको सम्बन्धमा, सातौँ महिनाको पन्ध्रौँ दिनमा तिमीहरूले भूमिबाट फसल बटुलिसकेपछि तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुको यो चाडलाई सात दिनसम्म मान्‍नू । पहिलो दिन पवित्र विश्राम हुने छ, र आठौँ दिन पनि पवित्र विश्राम हुने छ ।

“[Returning to my instructions about] the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters, you must celebrate this festival after you have harvested all the crops. On the first day and on the last day of that festival, you must rest completely.

40 पहिलो दिनमा तिमीहरूले रुखहरूबाट उत्तम फल, खजुरका हाँगाहरू, र धेरै पात भएका हाँगाहरू, र लहरे-पीपलका हाँगाहरू लिनू, र सात दिनसम्म परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरको सामु आनन्द मनाउनू ।

But on the first day, you are permitted to pick fruit from trees. Cut palm fronds/branches and other leafy branches from trees or from bushes that grow by the streams, [and make shelters/huts to live in for that week]. Then rejoice in my presence for those seven days.

41 हरेक वर्ष सात दिनसम्म तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुको निम्ति यो चाड मनाउनू । तिमीहरू बसोबास गर्ने सबै ठाउँमा तिमीहरूका मानिसहरूका सबै वंशमा सदाको निम्ति यो एउटा विधि होस् ।

You must celebrate this festival for seven days every year. You must never stop obeying my commands/instructions for that festival. You must celebrate it in September.

42 तिमीहरू सात दिनसम्म स-साना छाप्रोमा बस्‍नू । इस्राएलमा जन्मेका सबै जना सात दिनसम्म स-साना छाप्रोमा बसून्,

During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelis your entire lives must live in shelters/huts.

43 ताकि तिमीहरूका वंशले पुस्तौँ-पुस्तासम्म यो जानून्, कि मैले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई मिश्र देशबाट बाहिर ल्याउँदा तिनीहरूलाई कसरी यी स-साना छाप्राहरूमा बस्‍न लगाएँ । म परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वर हुँ’ ।”

That will remind your descendants that their ancestors lived in shelters [for many years] after I rescued them from Egypt. [Do not forget that] I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who is commanding this].”

44 यसरी मोशाले परमप्रभुका निम्ति तोकिएका चाडहरूबारे इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई घोषणा गरे ।

So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.