دانیال 1
| در سال سوم سلطنت یهویاقیم پادشاه یهودا، نِبوکَدنِصَّر پادشاه بابِل با سپاهیان خود به اورشلیم حمله کرد و آن را محاصره نمود. خداوند اجازه داد که او یهویاقیم را به اسارت گیرد و ظروف مقدّس خانهٔ خدا را غارت کند. او کسانی را که اسیر کرده بود با خود به معبد خدای خویش در بابِل برد و ظروف را در خزانهٔ معبد گذاشت. | 1 |
After King Jehoiakim had been ruling in Judah for almost three years, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem [with his army] and surrounded the city.
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[After two years, ] Yahweh allowed Nebuchadnezzar’s [soldiers] to capture Jehoiakim, [who was the] King of Judah. They also took some of the things that were in the temple of God, and took them to Babylonia. There Nebuchadnezzar put them in the temple of his god.
| نِبوکَدنِصَّر به وزیر دربار خود اشفناز دستور داد از میان شاهزادگان و اشراف‌زادگان یهودی اسیر شده، چند تن را انتخاب کند و زبان و علوم بابِلی را به آنان یاد دهد. این افراد می‌بایست جوانانی باشند بدون نقص عضو، خوش‌قیافه، با استعداد، تیزهوش و دانا، تا شایستگی خدمت در دربار را داشته باشند. | 3 |
Then Nebuchadnezzar commanded Ashpenaz, the chief official in his palace, to bring [to him] some of the Israeli men [whom they had brought to Babylon. He wanted men] who belonged to important families, including the family of the King of Judah.
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[King Nebuchadnezzar wanted only] men who were very healthy, handsome/good-looking, wise, well-educated, capable of learning many things, and suitable for working in the palace. He also wanted to teach them the Babylonian language and have them read things that had been written in the Babylonian language.
| پادشاه مقرر داشت که در طول سه سال تعلیم و تربیت ایشان، هر روز از خوراکی که او می‌خورد و شرابی که او می‌نوشید به آنان بدهند و پس از پایان سه سال، آنها را به خدمت او بیاورند. | 5 |
The king commanded [his servants], “Give them the same kind of food and wine that is given to me. Train them for three years. Then they will become my servants.”
| در بین افرادی که انتخاب شدند، چهار جوان از قبیلهٔ یهودا به اسامی دانیال، حننیا، میشائیل و عزریا بودند، | 6 |
Among the young Israeli men [who were chosen] were [me], Daniel, and Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, who all came from Judah.
| که وزیر دربار نامهای جدید بابِلی به آنها داد. او دانیال را بلطشصر، حننیا را شدرک، میشائیل را میشک و عزریا را عبدنغو نامید. | 7 |
But Ashpenaz gave us [Babylonian] names. The name he gave to me was Belteshazzar, the name he gave to Hananiah was Shadrach, the name he gave to Mishael was Meshach, and the name he gave to Azariah was Abednego.
| ولی دانیال تصمیم گرفت از خوراک و شرابی که از طرف پادشاه به ایشان داده می‌شد نخورد، زیرا باعث می‌گردید او نجس شود. پس، از وزیر دربار خواهش کرد غذای دیگری به او دهد. | 8 |
But I decided that I would not eat the kind of food that the king ate, or drink the wine that he drank, because that would make me (ritually defiled/unacceptable to God). So I asked Ashpenaz to allow me to eat and drink other things.
| هر چند خدا دانیال را در نظر وزیر دربار عزت و احترام بخشیده بود، | 9 |
God had caused Ashpenaz to greatly respect me,
| ولی او از تصمیم دانیال ترسید و گفت: «وقتی پادشاه که خوراک شما را تعیین کرده است، ببیند که شما از سایر جوانان هم سن خود لاغرتر و رنگ‌پریده‌تر هستید ممکن است دستور دهد سرم را از تن جدا کنند!» | 10 |
but he was worried about what I suggested. He said, “My master, the king, has commanded that you eat the kinds of food and drink that he does. If [you eat other things and as a result] you become more thin and pale than the other young men who are your age, he will [order his soldiers to] cut off my head because of what you have done!”
| دانیال این موضوع را با مأموری که وزیر دربار برای رسیدگی به وضع دانیال، حننیا، میشائیل و عزریا گمارده بود در میان گذاشت | 11 |
Ashpenaz had ordered a guard to watch me, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
| و پیشنهاد کرد برای امتحان، ده روز فقط حبوبات و آب به آنها بدهد، | 12 |
So I said to this guard: “[Please] test us for ten days. [During that time] give us [only] vegetables to eat and water to drink.
| و بعد از این مدت آنان را با جوانان دیگر که از خوراک پادشاه می‌خورند مقایسه کند و آنگاه در مورد خوراک آنها نظر دهد. | 13 |
After ten days, see how we look, and see how the other young men look, the ones who are eating the kind of food that the king eats. Then you can decide about [what food you will let us eat].”
| آن مأمور موافقت کرد و به مدت ده روز ایشان را امتحان نمود. | 14 |
The guard agreed to do what I suggested, and he tested us like that for ten days.
| وقتی مهلت مقرر به سر رسید، دانیال و سه رفیق او از جوانان دیگر که از خوراک پادشاه می‌خوردند سالمتر و قویتر بودند. | 15 |
After ten days, [he saw that] my three friends and I looked healthier [DOU] than the young men who had been eating the food that the king wanted them to eat.
| پس مأمور وزیر دربار از آن به بعد به جای خوراک و شراب تعیین شده، به آنان حبوبات می‌داد. | 16 |
So after that, the guard gave us [only] vegetables to eat; he did not give us the king’s special food and wine.
| خداوند به این چهار جوان چنان درک و فهمی بخشید که ایشان توانستند تمام علوم و حکمت آن زمان را بیاموزند. از این گذشته او به دانیال توانایی تعبیر خوابها و رؤیاها را نیز عطا فرمود. | 17 |
And God gave to us four young men wisdom and the ability to study many things that Babylonians had written and studied. And [he also gave to] me the ability to understand the meaning of visions and dreams.
| وقتی مهلتی که پادشاه برای تعلیم و تربیت آن جوانان تعیین کرده بود به پایان رسید، وزیر دربار ایشان را به حضور پادشاه آورد. | 18 |
When those three years that the king had set for training us young men from Judah were ended, Ashpenaz brought all of us to King Nebuchadnezzar.
| نِبوکَدنِصَّر با هر یک از آنها گفتگو کرد. دانیال، حننیا، میشائیل و عزریا از بقیه بهتر بودند؛ پس پادشاه ایشان را به خدمت گماشت. | 19 |
The king talked with [each of] us, and realized that none of the other young men were as capable as Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah and I were. So we four became the king’s special advisors/servants.
| پادشاه هر مسئله‌ای را که مطرح می‌کرد، حکمت و دانایی این چهار جوان را در پاسخ دادن به آن، ده مرتبه بیش از حکمت تمام جادوگران و منجمان آن دیار می‌یافت. | 20 |
In all important matters, the king found that what we [four men] advised was ten times as good as what all the magicians and sorcerers/fortune-tellers in his kingdom advised.
| دانیال تا هنگام فتح بابِل به دست کوروش پادشاه، همچنان در دربار خدمت می‌کرد. | 21 |
I remained [there serving the king more than 60 years], until the first year that Cyrus became king.
