नहेम्याह 13
1 त्यस दिन तिनीहरूले मानिसहरूले सुन्ने गरी मोशाको व्यवस्था पढे । कुनै अम्मोनी वा मोआबी कहिल्यै पनि परमेश्वरको सभामा आउनुहुँदैन भनी त्यसमा लेखिएको भेट्टाइयो ।
In that day they read in the book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it, that the Ammonites and Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God for ever;
2 किनकि तिनीहरू रोटी र पानी लिएर इस्राएलीहरूकहाँ आएका थिएनन्, तर तिनीहरूले इस्राएललाई सराप दिन बालामलाई भाडामा लिएका थिए । तथापि हाम्रा परमेश्वरले सरापलाई आशिष्मा परिणत गरिदिनुभयो ।
because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them: but our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3 तिनीहरूले व्यवस्था सुन्नेबित्तिकै तिनीहरूले इस्राएलबाट हरेक विदेशीबाट अलग गराए ।
And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they were separated, [even] every alien in Israel.
4 अब योभन्दा पहिले पुजारी एल्यासीब हाम्रा परमेश्वरको मन्दिरका भण्डार-कोठाहरूका जिम्मावाल नियुक्त भएका थिए । तिनको तोबियासित सम्बन्ध थियो ।
And before this time Eliasib the priest dwelt in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobias;
5 एल्यासीबले तोबियाको लागि एउटा ठुलो भण्डार-कोठा तयार पारेका थिए जहाँ पहिले तिनीहरूले लेवीहरू, गायकहरू, द्वारपालहरूका निम्ति अन्नबलि, धूप, काठपातहरू, अन्नका दशांशहरू, नयाँ दाखमद्य र तेल अनि पुजारीहरूका निम्ति दान राख्ने गर्थे ।
and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first-fruits of the priests.
6 तर यी सबै समयमा म यरूशलेममा थिइनँ । किनकि बेबिलोनका राजा अर्तासास्तको बत्तिसौँ वर्षमा म राजाकहाँ गएको थिएँ । केही समयपछि फर्केर जान मैले राजालाई अनुमति मागेँ,
But in all this [time] I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Arthasastha king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king;
7 र म यरूशलेम फर्कें । परमेश्वरको मन्दिरका चोकहरूमा एल्यासीबले तोबियालाई भण्डार-कोठा दिएर तिनले गरेको दुष्टतालाई मैले बुझेँ ।
and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the mischief which Eliasib had done in the case of Tobias, in making for him a treasury in the court of the house of God.
8 म सार्हैँ रिसाएँ, र मैले भण्डार-कोठाबाट तोबियाका सबै सरसामानहरू फालिदिएँ ।
And it appeared very evil to me: so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobias from the treasury.
9 भण्डार-कोठाहरू शुद्ध पारिऊन् भनी मैले आज्ञा दिएँ, अनि मैले परमेश्वरका मन्दिरका सामानहरू, अन्नबलिहरू र धूप फेरि त्यहाँ राखेँ ।
And I gave orders, and they purified the treasuries: and I restored thither the vessels of the house of God, [and] the offerings, and the frankincense.
10 लेवीहरूलाई तिनीहरूको भाग दिइएको रहेनछ, अनि लेवीहरूसाथै काम गर्ने गायकहरू आ-आफ्नो जग्गामा भागेर गएका रहे छन् भनी मैले थाहा पाएँ ।
And I understood that the portion of the Levites had not been given: and they had fled every one to his field, the Levites and the singers doing the work.
11 त्यसैले मैले अधिकारीहरूको सामना गरी तिनीहरूलाई भनेँ, “परमेश्वरको मन्दिरलाई किन बेवास्ता गरिएको?” मैले तिनीहरूलाई जम्मा गरी तिनीहरूकै पदमा नियुक्त गरेँ ।
And I strove with the commanders, and said, Wherefore has the house of God been abandoned? and I assembled them, and set them in their place.
12 तब सारा यहूदाले अन्नको दशांश, नयाँ दाखमद्य र तेल भण्डार-कोठाहरूभित्र ल्याए ।
And all Juda brought a tithe of the wheat and the wine and the oil into the treasuries,
13 मैले पुजारी शेलेम्याह, शास्त्री सादोक र लेवीहरूबाट पदायाहलाई भण्डार-कोठाहरूको कोषाध्यक्षको रूपमा नियुक्त गरेँ । जक्कूरका छोरा, मत्तन्याहका नाति हानानलाई तिनीहरूका सहायकको रूपमा नियुक्त गरेँ किनकि तिनीहरू भरोसायोग्य ठानिएका थिए । तिनीहरूका सहायकहरूका खानेकुराहरू वितरण गर्नु नै तिनीहरूको कर्तव्य थियो ।
to the charge of Selemia the priest, and Sadoc the scribe, and Phadaea of the Levites: and next to them [was] Anan the son of Zacchur, son of Matthanias; for they were accounted faithful: [it was] their office to distribute to their brethren.
14 हे मेरा परमेश्वर, यस विषयमा मेरो सम्झना गर्नुहोस्, अनि मेरा परमेश्वरको मन्दिर र यसका सेवाहरूमा मैले गरेका असल कार्यहरूलाई नमेटिदिनुहोस् ।
Remember me, O God, in this, and let not my kindness be forgotten which I have wrought in [regard to] the house of the Lord God.
15 ती दिनमा मैले यहूदामा मानिसहरूले शबाथमा कोल पेलिरहेका, अन्नका भारीहरू ल्याइरहेका, अनि दाखमद्य, दाख, नेभारा र सबै किसिमका भारीहरू गधाहरूमाथि लादेर शबाथ-दिनमा यरूशलेममा ल्याएको देखेँ । त्यस दिन तिनीहरूले खानेकुरा बेच्दै थिए भनी मैले विरोध जनाएँ ।
In those days I saw in Juda [men] treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs, and every [kind of] burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day:
16 यरूशलेममा बस्ने टुरोसका मानिसहरूले माछासाथै सबै किसिमका खानेकुरा ल्याए, अनि शबाथमा तिनीहरूले यहूदा र सहरका मानिसहरूलाई ती चिजहरू बेचे ।
and I testified in the day of their sale. Also their dwelt in it [men] bringing fish, and selling every [kind of] merchandise to the children of Juda and in Jerusalem on the sabbath.
17 तब मैले यहूदाका मानिसहरूको सामना गरेँ, “शबाथ-दिनलाई अपवित्र पारी तपाईंहरूले यो दुष्ट काम गर्नुको अर्थ के हो?
And I strove with the free children of Juda, and said to them, What [is] this evil thing which ye do, and profane the sabbath-day?
18 के तपाईंहरूका पुर्खाहरूले यसै गरेका होइनन् र? के हाम्रा परमेश्वरले हामी र हाम्रो सहरमाथि यी सबै खराबी ल्याउनुभएको होइन र? अब शबाथलाई अपवित्र पारी तपाईंहरूले इस्राएलमाथि अझै धेरै क्रोध ल्याउँदै हुनुहुन्छ ।”
Did not your fathers thus, and our God brought upon them and upon us and upon this city all these evils? and do ye bring additional wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath?
19 शबाथअगि यरूशलेमका प्रवेश-द्वारहरूमा साँझ पर्नेबित्तिकै ती बन्द गरेर शबाथ नसकिएसम्म नखोलिऊन् भनी मैले आज्ञा दिएँ । शबाथ-दिनमा कुनै भारी भित्र लैजान नसकियोस् भनेर प्रवेश-द्वारहरूमा मैले मेरा केही सेवकहरू नियुक्त गरेँ ।
And it came to pass, when the gates were set up in Jerusalem, before the sabbath, that I spoke, and they shut the gates; and I gave orders that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and I set [some] of my servants at the gates, that none should bring [in] burdens on the sabbath-day.
20 सबै किसिमका सामान ल्याउने र बेच्नेहरूले एक-दुई पटक यरूशलेमबाहिरै छाउनी हाले ।
So all [the merchants] lodged, and carried on traffic without Jerusalem once or twice.
21 तर मैले तिनीहरूलाई चेताउनी दिएँ, “तपाईंहरू किन पर्खालबाहिर छाउनी हाल्नुहुन्छ? तपाईंहरूले फेरि यसो गर्नुभयो भने म तपाईंहरूलाई कारबाही गर्ने छु ।” त्यस समयदेखि तिनीहरू शबाथमा आएनन् ।
Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why do ye lodge in front of the wall? if ye do so again, I will stretch out my hand upon you. From that time they came not on the sabbath.
22 तब मैले लेवीहरूलाई आ-आफूलाई शुद्ध पारी शबाथलाई पवित्र पार्न प्रवेशद्वारहरूको पहरा दिनू भनी आज्ञा दिएँ । हे मेरा परमेश्वर, मप्रति तपाईंको करारको बफादारीको कारणले यसको लागि पनि मलाई सम्झनुहोस्, र मलाई दया देखाउनुहोस् ।
and I told the Levites who were purifying themselves, and came and kept the gates, that they should sanctify the sabbath-day. Remember me, O God, for these things, and spare me according to the abundance of thy mercy.
23 ती दिनमा अश्दोद, अम्मोन र मोआबका स्त्रीहरूलाई बिहे गर्ने यहूदीहरूलाई पनि मैले देखेँ ।
And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
24 तिनीहरूका सन्तानमध्ये आधाले अश्दोदको भाषा बोल्थे । तिनीहरूमध्ये कसैले पनि यहूदाको भाषा बोल्न सक्दैनथ्यो, तर ती मानिसहरूको कुनै एउटा भाषा बोल्दथे ।
and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language.
25 मैले तिनीहरूको सामना गरी तिनीहरूलाई सराप दिएँ, र केहीलाई हिर्काएँ र तिनीहरूको जगल्टा लुछेँ । मैले तिनीहरूलाई यसो भनी परमेश्वरको नाउँमा शपथ खान लगाएँ, “तिमीहरूले आफ्ना छोरीहरू तिनीहरूका छोराहरूलाई नदिनू अथवा तिनीहरूका छोरीहरू आफ्ना छोराहरू वा आफ्नै लागि नलिनू ।
And I strove with them and cursed them; and I smote some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying, ]Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, and ye shall not take of their daughters to your sons.
26 के यी स्त्रीहरूकै कारणले इस्राएलका राजा सोलोमनले पाप गरेका होइनन् र? जाति-जातिहरूका बिचमा तिनीजस्ता राजा कोही थिइनन्, र तिनका परमेश्वरले तिनलाई प्रेम गर्नुहुन्थ्यो, अनि परमेश्वरले सारा इस्राएलमाथि तिनलाई राजा बनाउनुभयो । तथापि, तिनका विदेशी पत्नीहरूले तिनलाई पाप गर्न लगाए । के तपाईंहरूको कुरा सुनी यी सबै दुष्ट काम गर्ने अनि विदेशी स्त्रीहरूसित बिहे गरी हाम्रा परमेश्वरलाई धोका दिने?”
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? though there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.
27 प्रधान पुजारी एल्यासीबका छोरा योयादाको एक जना छोरो होरोनी सन्बलतको ज्वाइँ रहेछ । त्यसकारण मैले त्यसलाई मेरो उपस्थितिबाट भाग्न लगाएँ ।
So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, —to marry strange wives.
28 हे मेरा परमेश्वर, तिनीहरूलाई सम्झनुहोस्, किनकि तिनीहरूले पुजारीको पद, यसको करार र लेवीहरूलाई दुषित पारेका छन् ।
and Elisub the high priest, [one] of the sons of Joada, [being] son-in-law of Sanaballat the Uranite, I chased him away from me.
29 यसरी मैले तिनीहरूलाई हरेक विदेशीबाट शुद्ध पारेँ, अनि पुजारीहरूसाथै लेवीहरूलाई तिनीहरूको आ-आफ्नै कर्तव्यमा स्थापित गराएँ ।
Remember them, O God, for their [false] connection with the priesthood, and [the breaking] the covenant of the priesthood, and [for defiling] the Levites.
30 मैले तोकिएको समयमा दाउराको भेटी र अगौटे फलहरू उपलब्ध गराएँ ।
So I purged them from all foreign connection, and established courses for the priests and the Levites, [every] man according to his work.
31 हे मेरा परमेश्वर, सदासर्वदा मेरो सम्झना गर्नुहोस् ।
And the offering of the wood-bearers [was] at certain set times, and in the [times of the] first-fruits. Remember me, O our God, for good.
