preritāḥ 7
1 tataḥ paraṁ mahāyājakaḥ pṛṣṭavān, eṣā kathāṁ kiṁ satyā?
Then the high priest said, “Can these things be so?”
2 tataḥ sa pratyavadat, he pitaro he bhrātaraḥ sarvve lākā manāṁsi nidhaddhvaṁ|asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣa ibrāhīm hāraṇnagare vāsakaraṇāt pūrvvaṁ yadā arām-naharayimadeśe āsīt tadā tejomaya īśvaro darśanaṁ datvā
So he said: “Men, brothers and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he resided in Haran,
3 tamavadat tvaṁ svadeśajñātimitrāṇi parityajya yaṁ deśamahaṁ darśayiṣyāmi taṁ deśaṁ vraja|
and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and come into a land that I will show you.’
4 ataḥ sa kasdīyadeśaṁ vihāya hāraṇnagare nyavasat, tadanantaraṁ tasya pitari mṛte yatra deśe yūyaṁ nivasatha sa enaṁ deśamāgacchat|
Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and resided in Haran. From there, after his father died, God moved him to this land in which you now live;
5 kintvīśvarastasmai kamapyadhikāram arthād ekapadaparimitāṁ bhūmimapi nādadāt; tadā tasya kopi santāno nāsīt tathāpi santānaiḥ sārddham etasya deśasyādhikārī tvaṁ bhaviṣyasīti tampratyaṅgīkṛtavān|
yet He did not give him an inheritance in it, not even a footstep. He promised to give it to him for a possession, that is, to his seed after him, though he had no child.
6 īśvara ittham aparamapi kathitavān tava santānāḥ paradeśe nivatsyanti tatastaddeśīyalokāścatuḥśatavatsarān yāvat tān dāsatve sthāpayitvā tān prati kuvyavahāraṁ kariṣyanti|
Further, God spoke like this: that his offspring would be aliens in a foreign land—and that they would be enslaved and oppressed—four hundred years.
7 aparam īśvara enāṁ kathāmapi kathitavān, ye lokāstān dāsatve sthāpayiṣyanti tāllokān ahaṁ daṇḍayiṣyāmi, tataḥ paraṁ te bahirgatāḥ santo mām atra sthāne seviṣyante|
‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve Me in this place.’
8 paścāt sa tasmai tvakchedasya niyamaṁ dattavān, ata ishākanāmni ibrāhīma ekaputre jāte, aṣṭamadine tasya tvakchedam akarot| tasya ishākaḥ putro yākūb, tatastasya yākūbo'smākaṁ dvādaśa pūrvvapuruṣā ajāyanta|
And He gave him a covenant of circumcision; and so he begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac did the same to Jacob, and Jacob to the twelve patriarchs.
9 te pūrvvapuruṣā īrṣyayā paripūrṇā misaradeśaṁ preṣayituṁ yūṣaphaṁ vyakrīṇan|
“The patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt; yet God was with him
10 kintvīśvarastasya sahāyo bhūtvā sarvvasyā durgate rakṣitvā tasmai buddhiṁ dattvā misaradeśasya rājñaḥ phirauṇaḥ priyapātraṁ kṛtavān tato rājā misaradeśasya svīyasarvvaparivārasya ca śāsanapadaṁ tasmai dattavān|
and delivered him out of all his adversities, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11 tasmin samaye misara-kinānadeśayo rdurbhikṣahetoratikliṣṭatvāt naḥ pūrvvapuruṣā bhakṣyadravyaṁ nālabhanta|
And a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, even a great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.
12 kintu misaradeśe śasyāni santi, yākūb imāṁ vārttāṁ śrutvā prathamam asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣān misaraṁ preṣitavān|
But upon hearing that there was wheat in Egypt, Jacob first sent our fathers.
13 tato dvitīyavāragamane yūṣaph svabhrātṛbhiḥ paricito'bhavat; yūṣapho bhrātaraḥ phirauṇ rājena paricitā abhavan|
On the second trip Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was presented to Pharaoh.
14 anantaraṁ yūṣaph bhrātṛgaṇaṁ preṣya nijapitaraṁ yākūbaṁ nijān pañcādhikasaptatisaṁkhyakān jñātijanāṁśca samāhūtavān|
Joseph sent and summoned his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
15 tasmād yākūb misaradeśaṁ gatvā svayam asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣāśca tasmin sthāne'mriyanta|
So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers;
16 tataste śikhimaṁ nītā yat śmaśānam ibrāhīm mudrādatvā śikhimaḥ pitu rhamoraḥ putrebhyaḥ krītavān tatśmaśāne sthāpayāñcakrire|
and they were transferred to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.
17 tataḥ param īśvara ibrāhīmaḥ sannidhau śapathaṁ kṛtvā yāṁ pratijñāṁ kṛtavān tasyāḥ pratijñāyāḥ phalanasamaye nikaṭe sati isrāyellokā simaradeśe varddhamānā bahusaṁkhyā abhavan|
“Now as the time of the promise was approaching which God had sworn to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,
18 śeṣe yūṣaphaṁ yo na paricinoti tādṛśa eko narapatirupasthāya
until a different king arose who had not known Joseph.
19 asmākaṁ jñātibhiḥ sārddhaṁ dhūrttatāṁ vidhāya pūrvvapuruṣān prati kuvyavaharaṇapūrvvakaṁ teṣāṁ vaṁśanāśanāya teṣāṁ navajātān śiśūn bahi rnirakṣepayat|
This man took advantage of our race and oppressed our fathers, making them expose their babies so that they would not stay alive.
20 etasmin samaye mūsā jajñe, sa tu paramasundaro'bhavat tathā pitṛgṛhe māsatrayaparyyantaṁ pālito'bhavat|
At that time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; he was nurtured in his father's house for three months.
21 kintu tasmin bahirnikṣipte sati phirauṇarājasya kanyā tam uttolya nītvā dattakaputraṁ kṛtvā pālitavatī|
When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him to herself and brought him up as her own son.
22 tasmāt sa mūsā misaradeśīyāyāḥ sarvvavidyāyāḥ pāradṛṣvā san vākye kriyāyāñca śaktimān abhavat|
So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; he was mighty in words and deeds.
23 sa sampūrṇacatvāriṁśadvatsaravayasko bhūtvā isrāyelīyavaṁśanijabhrātṛn sākṣāt kartuṁ matiṁ cakre|
Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.
24 teṣāṁ janamekaṁ hiṁsitaṁ dṛṣṭvā tasya sapakṣaḥ san hiṁsitajanam upakṛtya misarīyajanaṁ jaghāna|
Well seeing one of them being wronged, he defended and avenged the one being oppressed, striking down the Egyptian.
25 tasya hasteneśvarastān uddhariṣyati tasya bhrātṛgaṇa iti jñāsyati sa ityanumānaṁ cakāra, kintu te na bubudhire|
Now he supposed that his brothers understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.
26 tatpare 'hani teṣām ubhayo rjanayo rvākkalaha upasthite sati mūsāḥ samīpaṁ gatvā tayo rmelanaṁ karttuṁ matiṁ kṛtvā kathayāmāsa, he mahāśayau yuvāṁ bhrātarau parasparam anyāyaṁ kutaḥ kuruthaḥ?
The next day he appeared to them as they were fighting and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?’
27 tataḥ samīpavāsinaṁ prati yo jano'nyāyaṁ cakāra sa taṁ dūrīkṛtya kathayāmāsa, asmākamupari śāstṛtvavicārayitṛtvapadayoḥ kastvāṁ niyuktavān?
But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed Moses away, saying: ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
28 hyo yathā misarīyaṁ hatavān tathā kiṁ māmapi haniṣyasi?
Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’
29 tadā mūsā etādṛśīṁ kathāṁ śrutvā palāyanaṁ cakre, tato midiyanadeśaṁ gatvā pravāsī san tasthau, tatastatra dvau putrau jajñāte|
Well Moses fled at that word, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons.
30 anantaraṁ catvāriṁśadvatsareṣu gateṣu sīnayaparvvatasya prāntare prajvalitastambasya vahniśikhāyāṁ parameśvaradūtastasmai darśanaṁ dadau|
“And when another forty years had passed, Angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 mūsāstasmin darśane vismayaṁ matvā viśeṣaṁ jñātuṁ nikaṭaṁ gacchati,
Well upon seeing it Moses was amazed at the sight, but as he approached for a closer look the voice of the Lord came to him:
32 etasmin samaye, ahaṁ tava pūrvvapuruṣāṇām īśvaro'rthād ibrāhīma īśvara ishāka īśvaro yākūba īśvaraśca, mūsāmuddiśya parameśvarasyaitādṛśī vihāyasīyā vāṇī babhūva, tataḥ sa kampānvitaḥ san puna rnirīkṣituṁ pragalbho na babhūva|
‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ Moses started trembling and did not dare to look.
33 parameśvarastaṁ jagāda, tava pādayoḥ pāduke mocaya yatra tiṣṭhasi sā pavitrabhūmiḥ|
So the Lord said to him: ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
34 ahaṁ misaradeśasthānāṁ nijalokānāṁ durddaśāṁ nitāntam apaśyaṁ, teṣāṁ kātaryyoktiñca śrutavān tasmāt tān uddharttum avaruhyāgamam; idānīm āgaccha misaradeśaṁ tvāṁ preṣayāmi|
I have definitely seen the mistreatment of my people in Egypt, and have heard their groaning; and I have come down to deliver them. So now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
35 kastvāṁ śāstṛtvavicārayitṛtvapadayo rniyuktavān, iti vākyamuktvā tai ryo mūsā avajñātastameva īśvaraḥ stambamadhye darśanadātrā tena dūtena śāstāraṁ muktidātārañca kṛtvā preṣayāmāsa|
“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God sent him as leader and deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 sa ca misaradeśe sūphnāmni samudre ca paścāt catvāriṁśadvatsarān yāvat mahāprāntare nānāprakārāṇyadbhutāni karmmāṇi lakṣaṇāni ca darśayitvā tān bahiḥ kṛtvā samānināya|
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
37 prabhuḥ parameśvaro yuṣmākaṁ bhrātṛgaṇasya madhye mādṛśam ekaṁ bhaviṣyadvaktāram utpādayiṣyati tasya kathāyāṁ yūyaṁ mano nidhāsyatha, yo jana isrāyelaḥ santānebhya enāṁ kathāṁ kathayāmāsa sa eṣa mūsāḥ|
“This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, like me.’
38 mahāprāntarasthamaṇḍalīmadhye'pi sa eva sīnayaparvvatopari tena sārddhaṁ saṁlāpino dūtasya cāsmatpitṛgaṇasya madhyasthaḥ san asmabhyaṁ dātavyani jīvanadāyakāni vākyāni lebhe|
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, who was with the Angel who spoke with him on Mount Sinai and was with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us;
39 asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣāstam amānyaṁ katvā svebhyo dūrīkṛtya misaradeśaṁ parāvṛtya gantuṁ manobhirabhilaṣya hāroṇaṁ jagaduḥ,
to whom our fathers did not want to be obedient; rather they rejected him and turned back in their heart to Egypt,
40 asmākam agre'gre gantum asmadarthaṁ devagaṇaṁ nirmmāhi yato yo mūsā asmān misaradeśād bahiḥ kṛtvānītavān tasya kiṁ jātaṁ tadasmābhi rna jñāyate|
saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us; because this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt—we do not know what has become of him.’
41 tasmin samaye te govatsākṛtiṁ pratimāṁ nirmmāya tāmuddiśya naivedyamutmṛjya svahastakṛtavastunā ānanditavantaḥ|
Well they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and started rejoicing in the works of their hands.
42 tasmād īśvarasteṣāṁ prati vimukhaḥ san ākāśasthaṁ jyotirgaṇaṁ pūjayituṁ tebhyo'numatiṁ dadau, yādṛśaṁ bhaviṣyadvādināṁ grantheṣu likhitamāste, yathā, isrāyelīyavaṁśā re catvāriṁśatsamān purā| mahati prāntare saṁsthā yūyantu yāni ca| balihomādikarmmāṇi kṛtavantastu tāni kiṁ| māṁ samuddiśya yuṣmābhiḥ prakṛtānīti naiva ca|
But God turned away and gave them over to serve the army of the heaven, just as it is written in Book of the Prophets: ‘House of Israel, did you offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness?
43 kintu vo molakākhyasya devasya dūṣyameva ca| yuṣmākaṁ rimphanākhyāyā devatāyāśca tārakā| etayorubhayo rmūrtī yuṣmābhiḥ paripūjite| ato yuṣmāṁstu bābelaḥ pāraṁ neṣyāmi niścitaṁ|
Actually you took along the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god, Rephan, the images that you made to worship; so I will relocate you beyond Babylon.’
44 aparañca yannidarśanam apaśyastadanusāreṇa dūṣyaṁ nirmmāhi yasmin īśvaro mūsām etadvākyaṁ babhāṣe tat tasya nirūpitaṁ sākṣyasvarūpaṁ dūṣyam asmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣaiḥ saha prāntare tasthau|
“The tent of the testimony, according to the pattern that Moses had seen, just as the One speaking to him had commanded to make it, was with our fathers in the wilderness;
45 paścāt yihośūyena sahitaisteṣāṁ vaṁśajātairasmatpūrvvapuruṣaiḥ sveṣāṁ sammukhād īśvareṇa dūrīkṛtānām anyadeśīyānāṁ deśādhikṛtikāle samānītaṁ tad dūṣyaṁ dāyūdodhikāraṁ yāvat tatra sthāna āsīt|
which, having received it in turn, our fathers with Joshua brought into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;
46 sa dāyūd parameśvarasyānugrahaṁ prāpya yākūb īśvarārtham ekaṁ dūṣyaṁ nirmmātuṁ vavāñcha;
who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob,
47 kintu sulemān tadarthaṁ mandiram ekaṁ nirmmitavān|
but Solomon built Him a house.
48 tathāpi yaḥ sarvvoparisthaḥ sa kasmiṁścid hastakṛte mandire nivasatīti nahi, bhaviṣyadvādī kathāmetāṁ kathayati, yathā,
However, the Most High does not dwell in handmade sanctuaries, just as the prophet says:
49 pareśo vadati svargo rājasiṁhāsanaṁ mama| madīyaṁ pādapīṭhañca pṛthivī bhavati dhruvaṁ| tarhi yūyaṁ kṛte me kiṁ pranirmmāsyatha mandiraṁ| viśrāmāya madīyaṁ vā sthānaṁ kiṁ vidyate tviha|
‘Heaven is my throne, while the earth is a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me,’ says the Lord, ‘or what place for my rest?
50 sarvvāṇyetāni vastūni kiṁ me hastakṛtāni na||
Did not my hand make all these things?’
51 he anājñāgrāhakā antaḥkaraṇe śravaṇe cāpavitralokāḥ yūyam anavarataṁ pavitrasyātmanaḥ prātikūlyam ācaratha, yuṣmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣā yādṛśā yūyamapi tādṛśāḥ|
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so you do.
52 yuṣmākaṁ pūrvvapuruṣāḥ kaṁ bhaviṣyadvādinaṁ nātāḍayan? ye tasya dhārmmikasya janasyāgamanakathāṁ kathitavantastān aghnan yūyam adhūnā viśvāsaghātino bhūtvā taṁ dhārmmikaṁ janam ahata|
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers;
53 yūyaṁ svargīyadūtagaṇena vyavasthāṁ prāpyāpi tāṁ nācaratha|
you who received the Law as ‘ordinances of angels’ and have not kept it!”
54 imāṁ kathāṁ śrutvā te manaḥsu biddhāḥ santastaṁ prati dantagharṣaṇam akurvvan|
Well as they heard these things their hearts were being sawed in half, and they started gnashing their teeth at him.
55 kintu stiphānaḥ pavitreṇātmanā pūrṇo bhūtvā gagaṇaṁ prati sthiradṛṣṭiṁ kṛtvā īśvarasya dakṣiṇe daṇḍāyamānaṁ yīśuñca vilokya kathitavān;
But he, being full of Holy Spirit and looking intently into the heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on God's right,
56 paśya, meghadvāraṁ muktam īśvarasya dakṣiṇe sthitaṁ mānavasutañca paśyāmi|
and said, “Wow! I see the heavens opened and the Son of the Man standing at God's right!”
57 tadā te proccaiḥ śabdaṁ kṛtvā karṇeṣvaṅgulī rnidhāya ekacittībhūya tam ākraman|
Yelling at the top of their voice they covered their ears and rushed at him all at once,
58 paścāt taṁ nagarād bahiḥ kṛtvā prastarairāghnan sākṣiṇo lākāḥ śaulanāmno yūnaścaraṇasannidhau nijavastrāṇi sthāpitavantaḥ|
and throwing him out of the city they stoned him! (The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.)
59 anantaraṁ he prabho yīśe madīyamātmānaṁ gṛhāṇa stiphānasyeti prārthanavākyavadanasamaye te taṁ prastarairāghnan|
Yes, they stoned Stephen as he called out and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
60 tasmāt sa jānunī pātayitvā proccaiḥ śabdaṁ kṛtvā, he prabhe pāpametad eteṣu mā sthāpaya, ityuktvā mahānidrāṁ prāpnot|
Then kneeling down he called out at the top of his voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” And upon saying this he fell asleep. (Saul was in full agreement with his murder.)
