गन्ती 35

1 परमप्रभु यरीहोमा यर्दन नजिकको मोआबको मैदानमा मोशासँग बोल्नुभयो,

Yahweh spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho and said,

2 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई तिनीहरूका आ-आफ्नो भूमिको हिस्साबाट लेवीहरूलाई केही दिन आज्ञा दे । तिनीहरूले उनीहरूलाई बस्‍नको निम्ति सहरहरू र त्यसको वरिपरि खर्क दिनुपर्छ ।

“Command the people of Israel to give some of their own shares of land to the Levites. They must give them cities to live in and pastureland surrounding those cities.

3 लेवीहरूले बस्‍नलाई यी सहरहरू पाउने छन् । तिनीहरूका गाईवस्तुहरू, भेडा-बाख्राहरू र तिनीहरूका सबै जनावरका निम्ति खर्क हुने छ ।

The Levites will have these cities to live in. The pastureland will be for their cattle, their flocks, and all their animals.

4 तिमीहरूले लेवीहरूलाई दिने सहर वरिपरिका खर्कहरू सहरका पर्खालहरूदेखि बाहिर वरिपरि सबैतिर एक-एक हजार हातसम्म फैलिएको हुने छ ।

The pasturelands around the cities that you will give to the Levites must extend from the city walls for one thousand cubits in every direction.

5 तिमीहरूले सहरको बाहिरबाट पूर्वपट्टि दुई हजार हात, दक्षिणपट्टि दुई हजार हात, पश्‍चिमपट्टि दुई हजार हात र उत्तरपट्टि दुई हजार हात नाप्‍नुपर्छ । यो तिनीहरूका निम्ति खर्कहरू हुने छ । सहरचाहिँ बिचमा हुने छ ।

You must measure two thousand cubits from outside the city on the east side, and two thousand cubits to the south side, two thousand cubits to the west side, and two thousand cubits to the north side. This will be the pasturelands for their cities. The cities will be in the center.

6 तिमीहरूले लेवीहरूलाई दिने सहरहरूमध्ये छ वटाले शरण-नगरहरूको काम गर्नुपर्छ । तिमीहरूले दिएका यी ठाउँहरूले कुनै मानिसलाई मार्ने व्यक्‍ति भाग्‍न सक्‍ने ठाउँ हुनुपर्छ । बयालिसवटा सहर पनि दिनू ।

Six of the cities that you will give to Levites must serve as cities of refuge. You must provide these as places to which a person who has killed someone can flee. Also provide forty-two other cities.

7 तिमीहरूले लेवीहरूलाई दिने सहरहरू जम्‍मा अठचालिसवटा हुने छ । तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई तिनीहरूका खर्कहरूसहित दिनुपर्छ ।

The cities that you give to the Levites will total forty-eight. You must give their pasturelands with them.

8 इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको ठुलो कुलसँग धैरै भूमि हुने भएकोले धेरै सहरहरू दिनुपर्छ । साना कुलहरूले कम सहरहरू दिनुपर्छ । हरेक कुलले आफूले प्राप्‍त गरेको हिस्साअनुसार लेवीहरूको निम्ति दिनुपर्छ ।

The larger tribes of the people of Israel, the tribes that have more land, must provide more cities. The smaller tribes will provide fewer cities. Each tribe must provide for the Levites according to the share that it has received.”

9 त्यसपछि परमप्रभु मोशासँग बोल्नुभयो,

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

10 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूसँग कुरा गर् र तिनीहरूलाई भन्, 'जब तिमीहरू यर्दन तरेर कनानको भूमिमा प्रवेश गर्छौ,

“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

11 तिमीहरूले तिमीहरूको निम्ति शरण-नगरको काम गर्ने सहरहरू चुन्‍नुपर्छ, जसमा कसैलाई अजानमा मारेको व्यक्‍ति त्यो ठाउँमा भागेर जान सक्छ ।

then you must choose cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, a place to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

12 यी सहरहरू बदला लिने व्यक्‍तिबाट बाँच्‍ने तिमीहरूको शरण-नगर हुनुपर्छ, ताकि दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍ति समुदायको सामु न्यायको लागि खडा हुनअगि नमारियोस् ।

These cities must be your refuge from the avenger, so that the accused man will not be killed without first standing trial before the community.

13 तिमीहरूले छवटा सहरलाई शरण-नगरको रूपमा छान्‍नुपर्छ ।

You must choose six cities as cities of refuge.

14 तिमीहरूले यर्दनपारि तिनवटा सहर र कनानको भूमिमा तिनवटा सहर दिनुपर्छ । ती शरण-नगर हुने छन् ।

You must provide three cities beyond the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan. They will be cities of refuge.

15 यी छवटा सहरले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूका निम्ति, परदेशीहरूका निम्ति र तिमीहरूमाझ बसोबास गर्ने जो कोहीको निम्ति एउटा शरणको काम गर्नेछ, जसमा कसैलाई अजानमा मार्ने व्यक्‍ति भागेर जान सक्छ ।

For the people of Israel, for the foreigners, for anyone living among you, these six cities will serve as a refuge to which anyone who kills someone unintentionally can flee.

16 तर यदि दोष लगाइएको मानिसले पीडितलाई फलामको हतियारले प्रहार गरेको छ भने, र यदि त्यसले आक्रमण गरेको व्यक्‍ति मर्‍यो भने, दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍ति हत्यारा नै हो । त्यसलाई मार्नुपर्छ ।

But if an accused man has struck his victim with an instrument of iron, and if his victim dies, then the accused is indeed a murderer. He must certainly be put to death.

17 यदि दोष लगाइएको मानिसले कसैलाई आफ्नो हातमा भएको ढुङ्गाले कसैलाई मर्ने गरी प्रहार गरेको छ भने, र यदि त्यो व्यक्‍ति मर्‍यो भने, त्यो दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍ति हत्यारा नै हो । त्यसलाई मार्नुपर्छ ।

If an accused man has struck his victim with a stone in his hand that might kill the victim, and if his victim dies, then the accused is indeed a murderer. He must certainly be put to death.

18 यदि दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍तिले कसैलाई काठको हतियारले प्रहार गरेको छ भने, र यदि त्यो व्यक्‍ति मर्‍यो भने, दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍ति हत्यारा नै हो । त्यसलाई मार्नुपर्छ ।

If an accused man has struck his victim with a wooden weapon that might kill the victim, and if the victim dies, then the accused is indeed a murderer. He must certainly be put to death.

19 रगतको बदला लिने व्यक्‍तिले हत्यारालाई मार्न सक्छ । त्यसले त्यसलाई भेट्दा, रगतको बदला लिने व्यक्‍तिले त्यसलाई मार्नुपर्छ ।

The avenger of blood may put the murderer to death. When he meets him, the avenger of blood must put him to death.

20 यदि त्यसले ढुकेर बसी कसैलाई प्रहार गर्छ वा घृणा गरेर केही कुराले आक्रमण गर्छ भने र आक्रमण गरिएको व्यक्‍ति मर्छ भने,

If he strikes another in hatred or throws something at him, while hiding to ambush him, so that the victim dies,

21 वा यदि त्यसले घृणा गरेको व्यक्‍तिलाई आफ्नै हातले प्रहार गर्छ अनि त्यो आक्रमणमा परेको व्यक्‍ति मर्छ भने, त्यसलाई प्रहार गरेको दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍तिलाई मार्नुपर्छ । त्यो हत्यारा हो । रगतको बदला लिने व्यक्‍तिले त्यसलाई भेट्दा मार्न सक्छ ।

or if he strikes him down in hatred with his hand so that the victim dies, then the accused who struck him must surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood may put the murderer to death when he meets him.

22 तर यदि दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍तिले पूर्वघृणाविना अचानक कुनै कुरा फ्याँक्दा ढुकेर नबसी नै आक्रमणमा परेको व्यक्‍तिलाई लाग्यो भने,

But if an accused man suddenly hits a victim without premeditated hate or throws something that hits the victim without lying in wait

23 वा यदि त्यसले आक्रमणमा परेका व्यक्‍तिलाई नदेखी ढुङ्गा फ्याँक्दा लाग्छ र मर्छ, अनि आक्रमणमा परेको व्यक्‍ति दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍तिको शत्रु होइन भने; त्यसले त्यसलाई चोट पुर्‍याउन खोजिरहेको थिएन । तर आक्रमणमा परेको व्यक्‍ति मर्छ भने यसो गर्नुपर्छ ।

or if he throws a stone that could kill a victim without seeing the victim, then the accused was not the victim's enemy; he was not trying to hurt the victim. But this is what to do if the victim dies anyway.

24 त्यस अवस्थामा समुदायले दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍ति र रगतको बदला लिनेबिच यी नियमहरूको आधारमा न्याय गर्नुपर्छ ।

In that case, the community must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood on the basis of these rules.

25 समुदायले दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍तिलाई रगतको बदला लिने व्यक्‍तिको शक्‍तिबाट छुटकारा दिनुपर्छ । समुदायले त्यो दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍ति पहिले भागेर गएको शरण-नगरमा नै त्यसलाई फर्काउनुपर्छ । त्यो त्यस बेलाको प्रधान पुजारीको मृत्यु नभएसम्म त्यहीँ नै बस्‍नुपर्छ, जसलाई पवित्र तेलले अभिषेक गरिएको थियो ।

The community must rescue the accused from the power of the avenger of blood. The community must return the accused to the city of refuge to which he had originally fled. He must live there until the death of the current high priest, the one who was anointed with the holy oil.

26 तर यदि दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍ति कुनै बखत त्यो भागेर गएको सहरको सिमानाबाहिर जान्छ,

But if the accused man at any time goes beyond the border of the city of refuge to which he fled,

27 र यदि रगतको बदला लिनेले त्यसलाई शरण-नगरको सिमानाबाहिर फेला पार्छ, र यदि त्यसले त्यो दोष लगाइएको व्यक्‍तिलाई मार्छ भने, रगतको बदला लिने व्यक्‍ति हत्याको दोषी हुने छैन ।

and if the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge, and if he kills the accused man, the avenger of blood will not be guilty of murder.

28 किनभने त्यो दोष लागेको व्यक्‍ति प्रधान पुजारीको मृत्यु नभएसम्म त्यसको शरण-नगरभित्र नै बस्‍नु पर्थ्यो । प्रधान पुजारीको मृत्युपछि त्यो दोष लागेको व्यक्‍ति आफ्नो सम्पत्ति भएको ठाउँमा फर्केर जान सक्छ ।

This is because the accused man should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest, the accused may return to the land where he has his own property.

29 यी नियमहरू तिमीहरू बसोबास गर्ने सबै ठाउँमा तिमीहरूका मानिसहरूका पुस्तौँ-पुस्तासम्मको विधिविधान हुनुपर्छ ।

These laws must be statutes for you through all your people's generations in all the places where you live.

30 कुनै मानिसलाई मार्ने हत्यारालाई साक्षीहरूले दिएको प्रमाणअनुसार मार्नुपर्छ । तर एक जना मात्र साक्षीको प्रमाणमा कुनै पनि व्यक्‍तिलाई मार्नु हुदैन ।

Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be killed, as testified to by the words of witnesses. But one witness' word alone may not cause any person to be put to death.

31 साथै हत्याराको दोषीको निम्ति तिमीहरूले कुनै किसिको छुटकाराको मूल्य स्वीकार गर्नुहुँदैन । त्यसलाई अवश्य नै मार्नुपर्छ ।

Also, you must not accept ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of murder. He must certainly be put to death.

32 शरण-नगरमा भागेर गएको व्यक्‍तिको निम्ति तिमीहरूले छुटकाराको मूल्य स्वीकार गर्नुहुँदैन । यसरी प्रधान पुजारीको मृत्यु नभएसम्म तिमीहरूले त्यसलाई आफ्नो जायदाद भएको ठाउँमा बसोबास गर्न दिनुहुँदैन ।

You must not accept ransom for the one who has fled to a city of refuge. You must not in this way allow him to reside on his own property until the high priest dies.

33 तिमीहरू बसोबास गरेको भूमिलाई यसरी दूषित नपार, किनभने हत्याराबाटको रगतले भूमिलाई दूषित पार्छ । भूमिमा रगत बगाएपछि यसको निम्ति रगत बगाउने व्यक्‍तिको रगतले बाहेक कुनै किसिमको प्रायश्‍चित्त गर्न सकिँदैन ।

Do not pollute in this way the land where you live, because blood from murder pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land when blood has been shed on it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

34 त्यसैले तिमीहरू बसोबास गर्ने भूमिलाई तिमीहरूले अशुद्ध पार्नुहुँदैन, किनभने म यसमा बास गर्छु । म परमप्रभु इस्राएलका मानिसहरूमाझ बास गर्छु ।

So you must not defile the land in which you live because I am living in it. I, Yahweh, live among the people of Israel.'”