လူကး 2
1 အပရဉ္စ တသ္မိန် ကာလေ ရာဇျသျ သရွွေၐာံ လောကာနာံ နာမာနိ လေခယိတုမ် အဂသ္တကဲသရ အာဇ္ဉာပယာမာသ၊
About that time the Emperor Augustus commanded that ([his officials must] write down the names/[a census be taken]) of all the people who lived in countries [controlled] by the Roman [government] {that the Roman [government controlled]}, [so that the government could collect taxes from them].
2 တဒနုသာရေဏ ကုရီဏိယနာမနိ သုရိယာဒေၑသျ ၑာသကေ သတိ နာမလေခနံ ပြာရေဘေ၊
That was the first time that they (wrote down the names/took a census) in Syria [province, which included Judea district]. They did this while Quirinius was the governor of the province.
3 အတော ဟေတော ရ္နာမ လေခိတုံ သရွွေ ဇနား သွီယံ သွီယံ နဂရံ ဇဂ္မုး၊
Every person had to go to the town where his [most famous ancestor] had lived, so that [the officials] could write down their names.
4 တဒါနီံ ယူၐဖ် နာမ လေခိတုံ ဝါဂ္ဒတ္တယာ သွဘာရျျယာ ဂရ္ဗ္ဘဝတျာ မရိယမာ သဟ သွယံ ဒါယူဒး သဇာတိဝံၑ ဣတိ ကာရဏာဒ် ဂါလီလ္ပြဒေၑသျ နာသရတ္နဂရာဒ္
So, because Joseph was a descendant of [King] David, he went up from Nazareth, the town in Galilee [district where he lived], to the town of Bethlehem in Judea [district]. That was the town where [King] David [grew up].
5 ယိဟူဒါပြဒေၑသျ ဗဲတ္လေဟမာချံ ဒါယူဒ္နဂရံ ဇဂါမ၊
Joseph went with Mary, who [was considered] {whom [people considered]} [to be] his wife, who was now pregnant. They went so that they could put his name and Mary’s name [in the record book].
6 အနျစ္စ တတြ သ္ထာနေ တယောသ္တိၐ္ဌတေား သတော ရ္မရိယမး ပြသူတိကာလ ဥပသ္ထိတေ
When they arrived [in Bethlehem], there was no place for them to stay in the house where travelers stay. [So they stayed in a cattle shed]. When the time for Mary to give birth arrived, she gave birth to her first son there. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and placed him in a trough where [people] put food for the animals.
7 သာ တံ ပြထမသုတံ ပြာသောၐ္ဋ ကိန္တု တသ္မိန် ဝါသဂၖဟေ သ္ထာနာဘာဝါဒ် ဗာလကံ ဝသ္တြေဏ ဝေၐ္ဋယိတွာ ဂေါၑာလာယာံ သ္ထာပယာမာသ၊
8 အနန္တရံ ယေ ကိယန္တော မေၐပါလကား သွမေၐဝြဇရက္ၐာယဲ တတ္ပြဒေၑေ သ္ထိတွာ ရဇနျာံ ပြာန္တရေ ပြဟရိဏး ကရ္မ္မ ကုရွွန္တိ,
That night, there were [some] shepherds who were taking care of their sheep [as usual] in the fields near [Bethlehem].
9 တေၐာံ သမီပံ ပရမေၑွရသျ ဒူတ အာဂတျောပတသ္ထော်; တဒါ စတုၐ္ပာရ္ၑွေ ပရမေၑွရသျ တေဇသး ပြကာၑိတတွာတ် တေ'တိၑၑင်္ကိရေ၊
An angel from God appeared to them. A great light (from the Lord/from God) shone on them and around them. [So] they became very afraid.
10 တဒါ သ ဒူတ ဥဝါစ မာ ဘဲၐ္ဋ ပၑျတာဒျ ဒါယူဒး ပုရေ ယုၐ္မန္နိမိတ္တံ တြာတာ ပြဘုး ခြီၐ္ဋော'ဇနိၐ္ဋ,
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! I have come to tell you good news, which will [make you] very happy! This message is for everyone [to hear].
11 သရွွေၐာံ လောကာနာံ မဟာနန္ဒဇနကမ် ဣမံ မင်္ဂလဝၖတ္တာန္တံ ယုၐ္မာန် ဇ္ဉာပယာမိ၊
[The message is that] today a baby has been born in [Bethlehem, the town where King] David grew up. That baby will [eventually] save you [from the guilt of your sins]! He is the Messiah, [your] Lord!
12 ယူယံ (တတ္သ္ထာနံ ဂတွာ) ဝသ္တြဝေၐ္ဋိတံ တံ ဗာလကံ ဂေါၑာလာယာံ ၑယနံ ဒြက္ၐျထ ယုၐ္မာန် ပြတီဒံ စိဟ္နံ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
I will tell you how [you will recognize him] (OR, how you will know [that what I say is true]): [In Bethlehem] you will find a baby who has been wrapped {[whose mother] has wrapped him} in strips of cloth and placed in a trough where [people] put food for the animals.”
13 ဒူတ ဣမာံ ကထာံ ကထိတဝတိ တတြာကသ္မာတ် သွရ္ဂီယား ပၖတနာ အာဂတျ ကထာမ် ဣမာံ ကထယိတွေၑွရသျ ဂုဏာနနွဝါဒိၐုး, ယထာ,
Suddenly a large group of angels from heaven appeared and joined the other angel. They all praised God, singing/saying,
14 သရွွောရ္ဒွွသ္ထဲရီၑွရသျ မဟိမာ သမ္ပြကာၑျတာံ၊ ၑာန္တိရ္ဘူယာတ် ပၖထိဝျာသ္တု သန္တောၐၑ္စ နရာန် ပြတိ။
“May [all the angels] in the highest heaven praise God! And on the earth may the people to whom God has shown his favor have peace [with him]!”
15 တတး ပရံ တေၐာံ သန္နိဓေ ရ္ဒူတဂဏေ သွရ္ဂံ ဂတေ မေၐပါလကား ပရသ္ပရမ် အဝေစန် အာဂစ္ဆတ ပြဘုး ပရမေၑွရော ယာံ ဃဋနာံ ဇ္ဉာပိတဝါန် တသျာ ယာထရျံ ဇ္ဉာတုံ ဝယမဓုနာ ဗဲတ္လေဟမ္ပုရံ ယာမး၊
After the angels left them [and returned] to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Let’s go to Bethlehem to see this [wonderful] thing that has happened, which (the Lord/God) has told us about!”
16 ပၑ္စာတ် တေ တူရ္ဏံ ဝြဇိတွာ မရိယမံ ယူၐဖံ ဂေါၑာလာယာံ ၑယနံ ဗာလကဉ္စ ဒဒၖၑုး၊
So they went quickly. They found the [place where] Mary and Joseph [were staying], and [they saw] the baby lying in the trough where [people] put food for the animals.
17 ဣတ္ထံ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ ဗာလကသျာရ္ထေ ပြောက္တာံ သရွွကထာံ တေ ပြာစာရယာဉ္စကြုး၊
Then they told [Mary and Joseph and others] what had been told them {what [the angel] had told them} about this child.
18 တတော ယေ လောကာ မေၐရက္ၐကာဏာံ ဝဒနေဘျသ္တာံ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑုၑြုဝုသ္တေ မဟာၑ္စရျျံ မေနိရေ၊
Everyone who heard what was said by the shepherds {what the shepherds said} to them was amazed.
19 ကိန္တု မရိယမ် ဧတတ္သရွွဃဋနာနာံ တာတ္ပရျျံ ဝိဝိစျ မနသိ သ္ထာပယာမာသ၊
But Mary [did not talk to others about what the angels said]; she just kept thinking very much about it.
20 တတ္ပၑ္စာဒ် ဒူတဝိဇ္ဉပ္တာနုရူပံ ၑြုတွာ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ စ မေၐပါလကာ ဤၑွရသျ ဂုဏာနုဝါဒံ ဓနျဝါဒဉ္စ ကုရွွာဏား ပရာဝၖတျ ယယုး၊
The shepherds returned [to their sheep]. They kept praising God very much for all the things that they had heard and seen, [because] everything [happened] exactly like [the angels] told them.
21 အထ ဗာလကသျ တွက္ဆေဒနကာလေ'ၐ္ဋမဒိဝသေ သမုပသ္ထိတေ တသျ ဂရ္ဗ္ဘသ္ထိတေး ပုရွွံ သွရ္ဂီယဒူတော ယထာဇ္ဉာပယတ် တဒနုရူပံ တေ တန္နာမဓေယံ ယီၑုရိတိ စကြိရေ၊
Seven days later, when [the priests] circumcised the baby, [his parents] named him Jesus. That was the name that [they were told by] the angel {the angel [told them]} [to] give him before Mary became pregnant.
22 တတး ပရံ မူသာလိခိတဝျဝသ္ထာယာ အနုသာရေဏ မရိယမး ၑုစိတွကာလ ဥပသ္ထိတေ,
It had been written by Moses {Moses had written} [long ago] in a law that God gave him, that when a woman gave birth to her first son, the parents had to take him [to the Temple] in Jerusalem in order that they might dedicate him (to the Lord/to God). So when the time came for them to do those rituals so that [God would consider] them pure again, Mary and Joseph took Jesus there.
23 "ပြထမဇး သရွွး ပုရုၐသန္တာနး ပရမေၑွရေ သမရ္ပျတာံ," ဣတိ ပရမေၑွရသျ ဝျဝသ္ထယာ
24 ယီၑုံ ပရမေၑွရေ သမရ္ပယိတုမ် ၑာသ္တြီယဝိဓျုက္တံ ကပေါတဒွယံ ပါရာဝတၑာဝကဒွယံ ဝါ ဗလိံ ဒါတုံ တေ တံ ဂၖဟီတွာ ယိရူၑာလမမ် အာယယုး၊
God had commanded in his laws that if the first child [of a couple] was a boy, his parents should offer as a sacrifice to God two turtledoves or two young pigeons. [So Joseph and Mary gave the priest two birds so he could offer them].
25 ယိရူၑာလမ္ပုရနိဝါသီ ၑိမိယောန္နာမာ ဓာရ္မ္မိက ဧက အာသီတ် သ ဣသြာယေလး သာန္တွနာမပေက္ၐျ တသ္ထော် ကိဉ္စ ပဝိတြ အာတ္မာ တသ္မိန္နာဝိရ္ဘူတး၊
At that time there was an [old] man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. He habitually did what was pleasing to God and he obeyed God’s laws. The Holy Spirit was [directing] him as he was waiting for [God] [MTY] [to] encourage the Israeli [people by sending the Messiah].
26 အပရံ ပြဘုဏာ ပရမေၑွရေဏာဘိၐိက္တေ တြာတရိ တွယာ န ဒၖၐ္ဋေ တွံ န မရိၐျသီတိ ဝါကျံ ပဝိတြေဏ အာတ္မနာ တသ္မ ပြာကထျတ၊
It was [previously] revealed by the Holy Spirit {The Holy Spirit [previously] revealed} to him that he would see God’s [promised] Messiah before he died.
27 အပရဉ္စ ယဒါ ယီၑေား ပိတာ မာတာ စ တဒရ္ထံ ဝျဝသ္ထာနုရူပံ ကရ္မ္မ ကရ္တ္တုံ တံ မန္ဒိရမ် အာနိနျတုသ္တဒါ
When Joseph and Mary brought their baby Jesus [to the Temple] in order to perform the rituals that [God had commanded] in his laws, the Spirit led Simeon to enter the Temple [courtyard, and revealed to him that Jesus was the Messiah].
28 ၑိမိယောန် အာတ္မန အာကရ္ၐဏေန မန္ဒိရမာဂတျ တံ ကြောဍေ နိဓာယ ဤၑွရသျ ဓနျဝါဒံ ကၖတွာ ကထယာမာသ, ယထာ,
So he took Jesus up in his arms and praised God, saying,
29 ဟေ ပြဘော တဝ ဒါသောယံ နိဇဝါကျာနုသာရတး၊ ဣဒါနီန္တု သကလျာဏော ဘဝတာ သံဝိသၖဇျတာမ်၊
Lord, you promised me that I would see the one [MTY] who would enable you to save people of all people-groups from the guilt of their sins. He will be [MET] like a light that will reveal your truth to non-Jews, and he will cause people to think highly of your people, the Israeli people. Since I [SYN] have now seen this one that you promised to send, now let me die peacefully.
30 ယတး သကလဒေၑသျ ဒီပ္တယေ ဒီပ္တိရူပကံ၊
31 ဣသြာယေလီယလောကသျ မဟာဂေါ်ရဝရူပကံ၊
32 ယံ တြာယကံ ဇနာနာန္တု သမ္မုခေ တွမဇီဇနး၊ သဧဝ ဝိဒျတေ'သ္မာကံ ဓြဝံ နယနနဂေါစရေ။
33 တဒါနီံ တေနောက္တာ ဧတား သကလား ကထား ၑြုတွာ တသျ မာတာ ယူၐဖ် စ ဝိသ္မယံ မေနာတေ၊
His parents marveled about what [Simeon] said about [Jesus]. Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary,
34 တတး ပရံ ၑိမိယောန် တေဘျ အာၑိၐံ ဒတ္တွာ တန္မာတရံ မရိယမမ် ဥဝါစ, ပၑျ ဣသြာယေလော ဝံၑမဓျေ ဗဟူနာံ ပါတနာယောတ္ထာပနာယ စ တထာ ဝိရောဓပါတြံ ဘဝိတုံ, ဗဟူနာံ ဂုပ္တမနောဂတာနာံ ပြကဋီကရဏာယ ဗာလကောယံ နိယုက္တောသ္တိ၊
“Note what I say: [God] has determined that because of this child, many Israeli people will [turn away from God], and many others will turn to God [MET]. Although he will be like a sign [MET] [to warn people], [many] people will oppose him.
35 တသ္မာတ် တဝါပိ ပြာဏား ၑူလေန ဝျတ္သျန္တေ၊
As a result, the [evil] thoughts of many people will be made evident {he will reveal the [evil] thoughts of many people}. [Furthermore, the cruel things that they will do to him] [MET] [will be like] a sword that will pierce your (soul/inner being).”
36 အပရဉ္စ အာၑေရသျ ဝံၑီယဖိနူယေလော ဒုဟိတာ ဟန္နာချာ အတိဇရတီ ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိနျေကာ ယာ ဝိဝါဟာတ် ပရံ သပ္တ ဝတ္သရာန် ပတျာ သဟ နျဝသတ် တတော ဝိဓဝါ ဘူတွာ စတုရၑီတိဝရ္ၐဝယးပရျျနတံ
There was also [in the Temple courtyard] a very old woman named Anna. She was a prophetess. Her father Phanuel was a member of the tribe of Asher. After she had been married seven years, her husband died.
37 မန္ဒိရေ သ္ထိတွာ ပြာရ္ထနောပဝါသဲရ္ဒိဝါနိၑမ် ဤၑွရမ် အသေဝတ သာပိ သ္တြီ တသ္မိန် သမယေ မန္ဒိရမာဂတျ
After that, she lived until she was 84 years old, and she was still a widow. She stayed in the Temple [area] all the time, night and day, worshipping God. She often (abstained from food/fasted) as she prayed.
38 ပရမေၑွရသျ ဓနျဝါဒံ စကာရ, ယိရူၑာလမ္ပုရဝါသိနော ယာဝန္တော လောကာ မုက္တိမပေက္ၐျ သ္ထိတာသ္တာန် ယီၑောရွၖတ္တာန္တံ ဇ္ဉာပယာမာသ၊
[While Joseph and Mary and the baby were] still [in the Temple, Anna came to them. She thanked God for the baby]. Then she spoke about Jesus to many people who were expecting [God to send the Messiah] [MTY] to set [the people of] [MTY] Jerusalem free [from their enemies].
39 ဣတ္ထံ ပရမေၑွရသျ ဝျဝသ္ထာနုသာရေဏ သရွွေၐု ကရ္မ္မသု ကၖတေၐု တော် ပုနၑ္စ ဂါလီလော နာသရတ္နာမကံ နိဇနဂရံ ပြတသ္ထာတေ၊
After Joseph and Mary had finished performing the rituals that (the Lord/God) required [the parents of a first son] to perform, they returned to their own town, Nazareth, in Galilee [district].
40 တတ္ပၑ္စာဒ် ဗာလကး ၑရီရေဏ ဝၖဒ္ဓိမေတျ ဇ္ဉာနေန ပရိပူရ္ဏ အာတ္မနာ ၑက္တိမာံၑ္စ ဘဝိတုမာရေဘေ တထာ တသ္မိန် ဤၑွရာနုဂြဟော ဗဘူဝ၊
As Jesus grew up, he became strong and very wise, and God was very pleased with him.
41 တသျ ပိတာ မာတာ စ ပြတိဝရ္ၐံ နိသ္တာရောတ္သဝသမယေ ယိရူၑာလမမ် အဂစ္ဆတာမ်၊
Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem to [celebrate] the Passover festival.
42 အပရဉ္စ ယီၑော် ဒွါဒၑဝရ္ၐဝယသ္ကေ သတိ တော် ပရွွသမယသျ ရီတျနုသာရေဏ ယိရူၑာလမံ ဂတွာ
So when Jesus was twelve years old, they went up [to Jerusalem] as they always did.
43 ပါရွွဏံ သမ္ပာဒျ ပုနရပိ ဝျာဃုယျ ယာတး ကိန္တု ယီၑုရ္ဗာလကော ယိရူၑာလမိ တိၐ္ဌတိ၊ ယူၐဖ် တန္မာတာ စ တဒ် အဝိဒိတွာ
When the celebration ended, his parents started to return home, but Jesus stayed in Jerusalem. [His parents] did not realize that [Jesus stayed there].
44 သ သင်္ဂိဘိး သဟ ဝိဒျတ ဧတစ္စ ဗုဒွွာ ဒိနဲကဂမျမာရ္ဂံ ဇဂ္မတုး၊ ကိန္တု ၑေၐေ ဇ္ဉာတိဗန္ဓူနာံ သမီပေ မၖဂယိတွာ တဒုဒ္ဒေၑမပြာပျ
They thought that he was with the other people who were traveling with them. They walked all day. Then they started to look for him among their relatives and friends.
45 တော် ပုနရပိ ယိရူၑာလမမ် ပရာဝၖတျာဂတျ တံ မၖဂယာဉ္စကြတုး၊
They did not find him, so they returned to Jerusalem to search for him.
46 အထ ဒိနတြယာတ် ပရံ ပဏ္ဍိတာနာံ မဓျေ တေၐာံ ကထား ၑၖဏွန် တတ္တွံ ပၖစ္ဆံၑ္စ မန္ဒိရေ သမုပဝိၐ္ဋး သ တာဘျာံ ဒၖၐ္ဋး၊
Two days later, they found him. He was in the Temple [courtyard], sitting with the [Jewish] religious teachers. He was listening to what they said, and he was asking them questions.
47 တဒါ တသျ ဗုဒ္ဓျာ ပြတျုတ္တရဲၑ္စ သရွွေ ၑြောတာရော ဝိသ္မယမာပဒျန္တေ၊
Everyone who heard what he [said] was amazed at how much he understood and [how well] he answered [the questions that the teachers asked].
48 တာဒၖၑံ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ တသျ ဇနကော ဇနနီ စ စမစ္စကြတုး ကိဉ္စ တသျ မာတာ တမဝဒတ်, ဟေ ပုတြ, ကထမာဝါံ ပြတီတ္ထံ သမာစရသ္တွမ်? ပၑျ တဝ ပိတာဟဉ္စ ၑောကာကုလော် သန္တော် တွာမနွိစ္ဆာဝး သ္မ၊
When his parents saw him, they were very surprised. His mother said to him, “My son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been very worried as we [(exc)] have been searching for you!”
49 တတး သောဝဒတ် ကုတော မာမ် အနွဲစ္ဆတံ? ပိတုရ္ဂၖဟေ မယာ သ္ထာတဝျမ် ဧတတ် ကိံ ယုဝါဘျာံ န ဇ္ဉာယတေ?
He said to them, [speaking about the Temple being God his Father’s house], “(I am surprised that you [(dl)] did [not know] where to find me!/Why did you [not know] where to find me?) [RHQ] (You [(dl)] should have known that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house!/Did you not know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house?) [RHQ]”
50 ကိန္တု တော် တသျဲတဒွါကျသျ တာတ္ပရျျံ ဗောဒ္ဓုံ နာၑက္နုတာံ၊
But they did not understand [the meaning of] what he said to them.
51 တတး ပရံ သ တာဘျာံ သဟ နာသရတံ ဂတွာ တယောရွၑီဘူတသ္တသ္ထော် ကိန္တု သရွွာ ဧတား ကထာသ္တသျ မာတာ မနသိ သ္ထာပယာမာသ၊
Then he returned with them down to Nazareth. He always obeyed them. But his mother kept thinking about all those things.
52 အထ ယီၑော ရ္ဗုဒ္ဓိး ၑရီရဉ္စ တထာ တသ္မိန် ဤၑွရသျ မာနဝါနာဉ္စာနုဂြဟော ဝရ္ဒ္ဓိတုမ် အာရေဘေ၊
[As the years passed], Jesus continued to become wiser and he grew taller. God and people continued to approve of him more and more.
