པྲེརིཏཱཿ 7
1 ཏཏཿ པརཾ མཧཱཡཱཛཀཿ པྲྀཥྚཝཱན྄, ཨེཥཱ ཀཐཱཾ ཀིཾ སཏྱཱ?
Then the high priest asked, “Is this true?”
2 ཏཏཿ ས པྲཏྱཝདཏ྄, ཧེ པིཏརོ ཧེ བྷྲཱཏརཿ སཪྻྭེ ལཱཀཱ མནཱཾསི ནིདྷདྡྷྭཾ། ཨསྨཱཀཾ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥ ཨིབྲཱཧཱིམ྄ ཧཱརཎྣགརེ ཝཱསཀརཎཱཏ྄ པཱུཪྻྭཾ ཡདཱ ཨརཱམ྄-ནཧརཡིམདེཤེ ཨཱསཱིཏ྄ ཏདཱ ཏེཛོམཡ ཨཱིཤྭརོ དརྴནཾ དཏྭཱ
Stephen replied, “Brothers and fathers, hear what I have to say. God, who manifests himself in the glory, appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, and before he settled in Haran, and said to him –
3 ཏམཝདཏ྄ ཏྭཾ སྭདེཤཛྙཱཏིམིཏྲཱཎི པརིཏྱཛྱ ཡཾ དེཤམཧཾ དརྴཡིཥྱཱམི ཏཾ དེཤཾ ཝྲཛ།
‘Leave your country and your people, and come into the country that I will show you.’
4 ཨཏཿ ས ཀསྡཱིཡདེཤཾ ཝིཧཱཡ ཧཱརཎྣགརེ ནྱཝསཏ྄, ཏདནནྟརཾ ཏསྱ པིཏརི མྲྀཏེ ཡཏྲ དེཤེ ཡཱུཡཾ ནིཝསཐ ས ཨེནཾ དེཤམཱགཙྪཏ྄།
And so Abraham left the country of the Chaldaeans and settled in Haran; and from there, after his father’s death, God caused him to migrate into this country, in which you are now living.
5 ཀིནྟྭཱིཤྭརསྟསྨཻ ཀམཔྱདྷིཀཱརམ྄ ཨརྠཱད྄ ཨེཀཔདཔརིམིཏཱཾ བྷཱུམིམཔི ནཱདདཱཏ྄; ཏདཱ ཏསྱ ཀོཔི སནྟཱནོ ནཱསཱིཏ྄ ཏཐཱཔི སནྟཱནཻཿ སཱརྡྡྷམ྄ ཨེཏསྱ དེཤསྱཱདྷིཀཱརཱི ཏྭཾ བྷཝིཥྱསཱིཏི ཏམྤྲཏྱངྒཱིཀྲྀཏཝཱན྄།
God did not at that time give him any part of it, not even a foot of ground. But he promised to give him possession of it and his descendants after him, though at that time he had no child.
6 ཨཱིཤྭར ཨིཏྠམ྄ ཨཔརམཔི ཀཐིཏཝཱན྄ ཏཝ སནྟཱནཱཿ པརདེཤེ ནིཝཏྶྱནྟི ཏཏསྟདྡེཤཱིཡལོཀཱཤྩཏུཿཤཏཝཏྶརཱན྄ ཡཱཝཏ྄ ཏཱན྄ དཱསཏྭེ སྠཱཔཡིཏྭཱ ཏཱན྄ པྲཏི ཀུཝྱཝཧཱརཾ ཀརིཥྱནྟི།
God’s words were these – ‘Abraham’s descendants will live in a foreign country, where they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years.
7 ཨཔརམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭར ཨེནཱཾ ཀཐཱམཔི ཀཐིཏཝཱན྄, ཡེ ལོཀཱསྟཱན྄ དཱསཏྭེ སྠཱཔཡིཥྱནྟི ཏཱལློཀཱན྄ ཨཧཾ དཎྜཡིཥྱཱམི, ཏཏཿ པརཾ ཏེ བཧིརྒཏཱཿ སནྟོ མཱམ྄ ཨཏྲ སྠཱནེ སེཝིཥྱནྟེ།
But I myself will judge the nation, to which they will be enslaved,’ God said, ‘and after that they will leave the country and worship me in this place.’
8 པཤྩཱཏ྄ ས ཏསྨཻ ཏྭཀྪེདསྱ ནིཡམཾ དཏྟཝཱན྄, ཨཏ ཨིསྷཱཀནཱམྣི ཨིབྲཱཧཱིམ ཨེཀཔུཏྲེ ཛཱཏེ, ཨཥྚམདིནེ ཏསྱ ཏྭཀྪེདམ྄ ཨཀརོཏ྄། ཏསྱ ཨིསྷཱཀཿ པུཏྲོ ཡཱཀཱུབ྄, ཏཏསྟསྱ ཡཱཀཱུབོ྅སྨཱཀཾ དྭཱདཤ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱ ཨཛཱཡནྟ།
Then God made with Abraham the covenant of circumcision; and under it Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him when he was eight days old; and Isaac became the father of Jacob; and Jacob of the Twelve Patriarchs.
9 ཏེ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱ ཨཱིརྵྱཡཱ པརིཔཱུརྞཱ མིསརདེཤཾ པྲེཥཡིཏུཾ ཡཱུཥཕཾ ཝྱཀྲཱིཎན྄།
The Patriarchs, out of jealousy, sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him,
10 ཀིནྟྭཱིཤྭརསྟསྱ སཧཱཡོ བྷཱུཏྭཱ སཪྻྭསྱཱ དུརྒཏེ རཀྵིཏྭཱ ཏསྨཻ བུདྡྷིཾ དཏྟྭཱ མིསརདེཤསྱ རཱཛྙཿ ཕིརཽཎཿ པྲིཡཔཱཏྲཾ ཀྲྀཏཝཱན྄ ཏཏོ རཱཛཱ མིསརདེཤསྱ སྭཱིཡསཪྻྭཔརིཝཱརསྱ ཙ ཤཱསནཔདཾ ཏསྨཻ དཏྟཝཱན྄།
and delivered him out of all his troubles, and enabled him to win favor and show wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him Governor of Egypt and of his whole household.
11 ཏསྨིན྄ སམཡེ མིསར-ཀིནཱནདེཤཡོ རྡུརྦྷིཀྵཧེཏོརཏིཀླིཥྚཏྭཱཏ྄ ནཿ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱ བྷཀྵྱདྲཝྱཾ ནཱལབྷནྟ།
Then a famine spread over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, causing great distress, and our ancestors could find no food.
12 ཀིནྟུ མིསརདེཤེ ཤསྱཱནི སནྟི, ཡཱཀཱུབ྄ ཨིམཱཾ ཝཱརྟྟཱཾ ཤྲུཏྭཱ པྲཐམམ྄ ཨསྨཱཀཾ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱན྄ མིསརཾ པྲེཥིཏཝཱན྄།
Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.
13 ཏཏོ དྭིཏཱིཡཝཱརགམནེ ཡཱུཥཕ྄ སྭབྷྲཱཏྲྀབྷིཿ པརིཙིཏོ྅བྷཝཏ྄; ཡཱུཥཕོ བྷྲཱཏརཿ ཕིརཽཎ྄ རཱཛེན པརིཙིཏཱ ཨབྷཝན྄།
In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.
14 ཨནནྟརཾ ཡཱུཥཕ྄ བྷྲཱཏྲྀགཎཾ པྲེཥྱ ནིཛཔིཏརཾ ཡཱཀཱུབཾ ནིཛཱན྄ པཉྩཱདྷིཀསཔྟཏིསཾཁྱཀཱན྄ ཛྙཱཏིཛནཱཾཤྩ སམཱཧཱུཏཝཱན྄།
Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relatives, seventy-five persons in all;
15 ཏསྨཱད྄ ཡཱཀཱུབ྄ མིསརདེཤཾ གཏྭཱ སྭཡམ྄ ཨསྨཱཀཾ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱཤྩ ཏསྨིན྄ སྠཱནེ྅མྲིཡནྟ།
and so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,
16 ཏཏསྟེ ཤིཁིམཾ ནཱིཏཱ ཡཏ྄ ཤྨཤཱནམ྄ ཨིབྲཱཧཱིམ྄ མུདྲཱདཏྭཱ ཤིཁིམཿ པིཏུ རྷམོརཿ པུཏྲེབྷྱཿ ཀྲཱིཏཝཱན྄ ཏཏྴྨཤཱནེ སྠཱཔཡཱཉྩཀྲིརེ།
and their bodies were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17 ཏཏཿ པརམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭར ཨིབྲཱཧཱིམཿ སནྣིདྷཽ ཤཔཐཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ ཡཱཾ པྲཏིཛྙཱཾ ཀྲྀཏཝཱན྄ ཏསྱཱཿ པྲཏིཛྙཱཡཱཿ ཕལནསམཡེ ནིཀཊེ སཏི ཨིསྲཱཡེལློཀཱ སིམརདེཤེ ཝརྡྡྷམཱནཱ བཧུསཾཁྱཱ ཨབྷཝན྄།
As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people increased largely in numbers in Egypt,
18 ཤེཥེ ཡཱུཥཕཾ ཡོ ན པརིཙིནོཏི ཏཱདྲྀཤ ཨེཀོ ནརཔཏིརུཔསྠཱཡ
until a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to the throne.
19 ཨསྨཱཀཾ ཛྙཱཏིབྷིཿ སཱརྡྡྷཾ དྷཱུརྟྟཏཱཾ ཝིདྷཱཡ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱན྄ པྲཏི ཀུཝྱཝཧརཎཔཱུཪྻྭཀཾ ཏེཥཱཾ ཝཾཤནཱཤནཱཡ ཏེཥཱཾ ནཝཛཱཏཱན྄ ཤིཤཱུན྄ བཧི རྣིརཀྵེཔཡཏ྄།
This king acted deceitfully towards our people and ill-treated our ancestors, making them abandon their own infants, so that they should not be reared.
20 ཨེཏསྨིན྄ སམཡེ མཱུསཱ ཛཛྙེ, ས ཏུ པརམསུནྡརོ྅བྷཝཏ྄ ཏཐཱ པིཏྲྀགྲྀཧེ མཱསཏྲཡཔཪྻྱནྟཾ པཱལིཏོ྅བྷཝཏ྄།
It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father’s house;
21 ཀིནྟུ ཏསྨིན྄ བཧིརྣིཀྵིཔྟེ སཏི ཕིརཽཎརཱཛསྱ ཀནྱཱ ཏམ྄ ཨུཏྟོལྱ ནཱིཏྭཱ དཏྟཀཔུཏྲཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ པཱལིཏཝཏཱི།
and, when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh found him and brought him up as her own son.
22 ཏསྨཱཏ྄ ས མཱུསཱ མིསརདེཤཱིཡཱཡཱཿ སཪྻྭཝིདྱཱཡཱཿ པཱརདྲྀཥྭཱ སན྄ ཝཱཀྱེ ཀྲིཡཱཡཱཉྩ ཤཀྟིམཱན྄ ཨབྷཝཏ྄།
So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and proved his ability both by his words and actions.
23 ས སམྤཱུརྞཙཏྭཱརིཾཤདྭཏྶརཝཡསྐོ བྷཱུཏྭཱ ཨིསྲཱཡེལཱིཡཝཾཤནིཛབྷྲཱཏྲྀན྄ སཱཀྵཱཏ྄ ཀརྟུཾ མཏིཾ ཙཀྲེ།
When he was in his fortieth year, he resolved to visit his fellow Israelites;
24 ཏེཥཱཾ ཛནམེཀཾ ཧིཾསིཏཾ དྲྀཥྚྭཱ ཏསྱ སཔཀྵཿ སན྄ ཧིཾསིཏཛནམ྄ ཨུཔཀྲྀཏྱ མིསརཱིཡཛནཾ ཛགྷཱན།
and, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian.
25 ཏསྱ ཧསྟེནེཤྭརསྟཱན྄ ཨུདྡྷརིཥྱཏི ཏསྱ བྷྲཱཏྲྀགཎ ཨིཏི ཛྙཱསྱཏི ས ཨིཏྱནུམཱནཾ ཙཀཱར, ཀིནྟུ ཏེ ན བུབུདྷིརེ།
He thought his own people would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so.
26 ཏཏྤརེ ྅ཧནི ཏེཥཱམ྄ ཨུབྷཡོ རྫནཡོ ཪྻཱཀྐལཧ ཨུཔསྠིཏེ སཏི མཱུསཱཿ སམཱིཔཾ གཏྭཱ ཏཡོ རྨེལནཾ ཀརྟྟུཾ མཏིཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ ཀཐཡཱམཱས, ཧེ མཧཱཤཡཽ ཡུཝཱཾ བྷྲཱཏརཽ པརསྤརམ྄ ཨནྱཱཡཾ ཀུཏཿ ཀུརུཐཿ?
The next day he again appeared on the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. ‘Men,’ he said, ‘you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?’
27 ཏཏཿ སམཱིཔཝཱསིནཾ པྲཏི ཡོ ཛནོ྅ནྱཱཡཾ ཙཀཱར ས ཏཾ དཱུརཱིཀྲྀཏྱ ཀཐཡཱམཱས, ཨསྨཱཀམུཔརི ཤཱསྟྲྀཏྭཝིཙཱརཡིཏྲྀཏྭཔདཡོཿ ཀསྟྭཱཾ ནིཡུཀྟཝཱན྄?
But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying – ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
28 ཧྱོ ཡཐཱ མིསརཱིཡཾ ཧཏཝཱན྄ ཏཐཱ ཀིཾ མཱམཔི ཧནིཥྱསི?
Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?’
29 ཏདཱ མཱུསཱ ཨེཏཱདྲྀཤཱིཾ ཀཐཱཾ ཤྲུཏྭཱ པལཱཡནཾ ཙཀྲེ, ཏཏོ མིདིཡནདེཤཾ གཏྭཱ པྲཝཱསཱི སན྄ ཏསྠཽ, ཏཏསྟཏྲ དྭཽ པུཏྲཽ ཛཛྙཱཏེ།
At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.
30 ཨནནྟརཾ ཙཏྭཱརིཾཤདྭཏྶརེཥུ གཏེཥུ སཱིནཡཔཪྻྭཏསྱ པྲཱནྟརེ པྲཛྭལིཏསྟམྦསྱ ཝཧྣིཤིཁཱཡཱཾ པརམེཤྭརདཱུཏསྟསྨཻ དརྴནཾ དདཽ།
Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 མཱུསཱསྟསྨིན྄ དརྴནེ ཝིསྨཡཾ མཏྭཱ ཝིཤེཥཾ ཛྙཱཏུཾ ནིཀཊཾ གཙྪཏི,
When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the vision; but on his going nearer to look at it more closely, the voice of the Lord was heard to say –
32 ཨེཏསྨིན྄ སམཡེ, ཨཧཾ ཏཝ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱཎཱམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརོ྅རྠཱད྄ ཨིབྲཱཧཱིམ ཨཱིཤྭར ཨིསྷཱཀ ཨཱིཤྭརོ ཡཱཀཱུབ ཨཱིཤྭརཤྩ, མཱུསཱམུདྡིཤྱ པརམེཤྭརསྱཻཏཱདྲྀཤཱི ཝིཧཱཡསཱིཡཱ ཝཱཎཱི བབྷཱུཝ, ཏཏཿ ས ཀམྤཱནྭིཏཿ སན྄ པུན རྣིརཱིཀྵིཏུཾ པྲགལྦྷོ ན བབྷཱུཝ།
‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and did not dare to look.
33 པརམེཤྭརསྟཾ ཛགཱད, ཏཝ པཱདཡོཿ པཱདུཀེ མོཙཡ ཡཏྲ ཏིཥྛསི སཱ པཝིཏྲབྷཱུམིཿ།
Then the Lord said to him – ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground.
34 ཨཧཾ མིསརདེཤསྠཱནཱཾ ནིཛལོཀཱནཱཾ དུརྡྡཤཱཾ ནིཏཱནྟམ྄ ཨཔཤྱཾ, ཏེཥཱཾ ཀཱཏཪྻྱོཀྟིཉྩ ཤྲུཏཝཱན྄ ཏསྨཱཏ྄ ཏཱན྄ ཨུདྡྷརྟྟུམ྄ ཨཝརུཧྱཱགམམ྄; ཨིདཱནཱིམ྄ ཨཱགཙྪ མིསརདེཤཾ ཏྭཱཾ པྲེཥཡཱམི།
I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.’
35 ཀསྟྭཱཾ ཤཱསྟྲྀཏྭཝིཙཱརཡིཏྲྀཏྭཔདཡོ རྣིཡུཀྟཝཱན྄, ཨིཏི ཝཱཀྱམུཀྟྭཱ ཏཻ ཪྻོ མཱུསཱ ཨཝཛྙཱཏསྟམེཝ ཨཱིཤྭརཿ སྟམྦམདྷྱེ དརྴནདཱཏྲཱ ཏེན དཱུཏེན ཤཱསྟཱརཾ མུཀྟིདཱཏཱརཉྩ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ པྲེཥཡཱམཱས།
This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words – ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ was the man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush.
36 ས ཙ མིསརདེཤེ སཱུཕྣཱམྣི སམུདྲེ ཙ པཤྩཱཏ྄ ཙཏྭཱརིཾཤདྭཏྶརཱན྄ ཡཱཝཏ྄ མཧཱཔྲཱནྟརེ ནཱནཱཔྲཀཱརཱཎྱདྦྷུཏཱནི ཀརྨྨཱཎི ལཀྵཎཱནི ཙ དརྴཡིཏྭཱ ཏཱན྄ བཧིཿ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ སམཱནིནཱཡ།
He it was who led them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the desert during forty years.
37 པྲབྷུཿ པརམེཤྭརོ ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ བྷྲཱཏྲྀགཎསྱ མདྷྱེ མཱདྲྀཤམ྄ ཨེཀཾ བྷཝིཥྱདྭཀྟཱརམ྄ ཨུཏྤཱདཡིཥྱཏི ཏསྱ ཀཐཱཡཱཾ ཡཱུཡཾ མནོ ནིདྷཱསྱཐ, ཡོ ཛན ཨིསྲཱཡེལཿ སནྟཱནེབྷྱ ཨེནཱཾ ཀཐཱཾ ཀཐཡཱམཱས ས ཨེཥ མཱུསཱཿ།
This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel – ‘God will raise up for you, from among yourselves, a prophet, as he raised up me.’
38 མཧཱཔྲཱནྟརསྠམཎྜལཱིམདྷྱེ྅པི ས ཨེཝ སཱིནཡཔཪྻྭཏོཔརི ཏེན སཱརྡྡྷཾ སཾལཱཔིནོ དཱུཏསྱ ཙཱསྨཏྤིཏྲྀགཎསྱ མདྷྱསྠཿ སན྄ ཨསྨབྷྱཾ དཱཏཝྱནི ཛཱིཝནདཱཡཀཱནི ཝཱཀྱཱནི ལེབྷེ།
He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.
39 ཨསྨཱཀཾ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱསྟམ྄ ཨམཱནྱཾ ཀཏྭཱ སྭེབྷྱོ དཱུརཱིཀྲྀཏྱ མིསརདེཤཾ པརཱཝྲྀཏྱ གནྟུཾ མནོབྷིརབྷིལཥྱ ཧཱརོཎཾ ཛགདུཿ,
Yet our ancestors refused him obedience; more than that, they rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
40 ཨསྨཱཀམ྄ ཨགྲེ྅གྲེ གནྟུམ྄ ཨསྨདརྠཾ དེཝགཎཾ ནིརྨྨཱཧི ཡཏོ ཡོ མཱུསཱ ཨསྨཱན྄ མིསརདེཤཱད྄ བཧིཿ ཀྲྀཏྭཱནཱིཏཝཱན྄ ཏསྱ ཀིཾ ཛཱཏཾ ཏདསྨཱབྷི རྣ ཛྙཱཡཏེ།
while they said to Aaron – ‘Make us Gods who will lead the way for us, since, as for this Moses who has brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
41 ཏསྨིན྄ སམཡེ ཏེ གོཝཏྶཱཀྲྀཏིཾ པྲཏིམཱཾ ནིརྨྨཱཡ ཏཱམུདྡིཤྱ ནཻཝེདྱམུཏྨྲྀཛྱ སྭཧསྟཀྲྀཏཝསྟུནཱ ཨཱནནྡིཏཝནྟཿ།
That was the time when they made the calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honor of their own handiwork!
42 ཏསྨཱད྄ ཨཱིཤྭརསྟེཥཱཾ པྲཏི ཝིམུཁཿ སན྄ ཨཱཀཱཤསྠཾ ཛྱོཏིརྒཎཾ པཱུཛཡིཏུཾ ཏེབྷྱོ྅ནུམཏིཾ དདཽ, ཡཱདྲྀཤཾ བྷཝིཥྱདྭཱདིནཱཾ གྲནྠེཥུ ལིཁིཏམཱསྟེ, ཡཐཱ, ཨིསྲཱཡེལཱིཡཝཾཤཱ རེ ཙཏྭཱརིཾཤཏྶམཱན྄ པུརཱ། མཧཏི པྲཱནྟརེ སཾསྠཱ ཡཱུཡནྟུ ཡཱནི ཙ། བལིཧོམཱདིཀརྨྨཱཎི ཀྲྀཏཝནྟསྟུ ཏཱནི ཀིཾ། མཱཾ སམུདྡིཤྱ ཡུཥྨཱབྷིཿ པྲཀྲྀཏཱནཱིཏི ནཻཝ ཙ།
So God turned from them and left them to the worship of the Starry Host, as is written in the book of the prophets – ‘Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me, house of Israel, all those forty years in the desert?
43 ཀིནྟུ ཝོ མོལཀཱཁྱསྱ དེཝསྱ དཱུཥྱམེཝ ཙ། ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ རིམྥནཱཁྱཱཡཱ དེཝཏཱཡཱཤྩ ཏཱརཀཱ། ཨེཏཡོརུབྷཡོ རྨཱུརྟཱི ཡུཥྨཱབྷིཿ པརིཔཱུཛིཏེ། ཨཏོ ཡུཥྨཱཾསྟུ བཱབེལཿ པཱརཾ ནེཥྱཱམི ནིཤྩིཏཾ།
You took with you the tent where Moloch is worshiped and the star of the god Rephan – the images which you had made to worship. Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.’
44 ཨཔརཉྩ ཡནྣིདརྴནམ྄ ཨཔཤྱསྟདནུསཱརེཎ དཱུཥྱཾ ནིརྨྨཱཧི ཡསྨིན྄ ཨཱིཤྭརོ མཱུསཱམ྄ ཨེཏདྭཱཀྱཾ བབྷཱཥེ ཏཏ྄ ཏསྱ ནིརཱུཔིཏཾ སཱཀྵྱསྭརཱུཔཾ དཱུཥྱམ྄ ཨསྨཱཀཾ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཻཿ སཧ པྲཱནྟརེ ཏསྠཽ།
Our ancestors had the tent where they worshiped God in the desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen.
45 པཤྩཱཏ྄ ཡིཧོཤཱུཡེན སཧིཏཻསྟེཥཱཾ ཝཾཤཛཱཏཻརསྨཏྤཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཻཿ སྭེཥཱཾ སམྨུཁཱད྄ ཨཱིཤྭརེཎ དཱུརཱིཀྲྀཏཱནཱམ྄ ཨནྱདེཤཱིཡཱནཱཾ དེཤཱདྷིཀྲྀཏིཀཱལེ སམཱནཱིཏཾ ཏད྄ དཱུཥྱཾ དཱཡཱུདོདྷིཀཱརཾ ཡཱཝཏ྄ ཏཏྲ སྠཱན ཨཱསཱིཏ྄།
This tent, which was handed down to them, was brought into this country by our ancestors who accompanied Joshua (at the conquest of the nations that God drove out before their advance), and remained here until the time of David.
46 ས དཱཡཱུད྄ པརམེཤྭརསྱཱནུགྲཧཾ པྲཱཔྱ ཡཱཀཱུབ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརཱརྠམ྄ ཨེཀཾ དཱུཥྱཾ ནིརྨྨཱཏུཾ ཝཝཱཉྪ;
David found favor with God, and prayed that he might provide the God of Jacob with a place to reside.
47 ཀིནྟུ སུལེམཱན྄ ཏདརྠཾ མནྡིརམ྄ ཨེཀཾ ནིརྨྨིཏཝཱན྄།
But it was Solomon who built a house for God.
48 ཏཐཱཔི ཡཿ སཪྻྭོཔརིསྠཿ ས ཀསྨིཾཤྩིད྄ ཧསྟཀྲྀཏེ མནྡིརེ ནིཝསཏཱིཏི ནཧི, བྷཝིཥྱདྭཱདཱི ཀཐཱམེཏཱཾ ཀཐཡཏི, ཡཐཱ,
Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the prophet says –
49 པརེཤོ ཝདཏི སྭརྒོ རཱཛསིཾཧཱསནཾ མམ། མདཱིཡཾ པཱདཔཱིཋཉྩ པྲྀཐིཝཱི བྷཝཏི དྷྲུཝཾ། ཏརྷི ཡཱུཡཾ ཀྲྀཏེ མེ ཀིཾ པྲནིརྨྨཱསྱཐ མནྡིརཾ། ཝིཤྲཱམཱཡ མདཱིཡཾ ཝཱ སྠཱནཾ ཀིཾ ཝིདྱཏེ ཏྭིཧ།
‘The heavens are a throne for me, and the earth a stool for my feet. What manner of house will you build me, asks the Lord, or what place is there where I may rest?
50 སཪྻྭཱཎྱེཏཱནི ཝསྟཱུནི ཀིཾ མེ ཧསྟཀྲྀཏཱནི ན༎
Was it not my hand that made all these things?’
51 ཧེ ཨནཱཛྙཱགྲཱཧཀཱ ཨནྟཿཀརཎེ ཤྲཝཎེ ཙཱཔཝིཏྲལོཀཱཿ ཡཱུཡམ྄ ཨནཝརཏཾ པཝིཏྲསྱཱཏྨནཿ པྲཱཏིཀཱུལྱམ྄ ཨཱཙརཐ, ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱ ཡཱདྲྀཤཱ ཡཱུཡམཔི ཏཱདྲྀཤཱཿ།
Stubborn people, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.
52 ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ པཱུཪྻྭཔུརུཥཱཿ ཀཾ བྷཝིཥྱདྭཱདིནཾ ནཱཏཱཌཡན྄? ཡེ ཏསྱ དྷཱརྨྨིཀསྱ ཛནསྱཱགམནཀཐཱཾ ཀཐིཏཝནྟསྟཱན྄ ཨགྷྣན྄ ཡཱུཡམ྄ ཨདྷཱུནཱ ཝིཤྭཱསགྷཱཏིནོ བྷཱུཏྭཱ ཏཾ དྷཱརྨྨིཀཾ ཛནམ྄ ཨཧཏ།
Which of the prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the righteous one; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers –
53 ཡཱུཡཾ སྭརྒཱིཡདཱུཏགཎེན ཝྱཝསྠཱཾ པྲཱཔྱཱཔི ཏཱཾ ནཱཙརཐ།
you who received the Law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it.”
54 ཨིམཱཾ ཀཐཱཾ ཤྲུཏྭཱ ཏེ མནཿསུ བིདྡྷཱཿ སནྟསྟཾ པྲཏི དནྟགྷརྵཎམ྄ ཨཀུཪྻྭན྄།
As they listened to this, the Council grew frantic with rage, and gnashed their teeth at Stephen.
55 ཀིནྟུ སྟིཕཱནཿ པཝིཏྲེཎཱཏྨནཱ པཱུརྞོ བྷཱུཏྭཱ གགཎཾ པྲཏི སྠིརདྲྀཥྚིཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ ཨཱིཤྭརསྱ དཀྵིཎེ དཎྜཱཡམཱནཾ ཡཱིཤུཉྩ ཝིལོཀྱ ཀཐིཏཝཱན྄;
He, filled as he was with the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes intently on the heavens, and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God’s right hand.
56 པཤྱ, མེགྷདྭཱརཾ མུཀྟམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརསྱ དཀྵིཎེ སྠིཏཾ མཱནཝསུཏཉྩ པཤྱཱམི།
“Look,” he exclaimed, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at God’s right hand!”
57 ཏདཱ ཏེ པྲོཙྩཻཿ ཤབྡཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ ཀརྞེཥྭངྒུལཱི རྣིདྷཱཡ ཨེཀཙིཏྟཱིབྷཱུཡ ཏམ྄ ཨཱཀྲམན྄།
At this, with a loud shout, they stopped their ears and all rushed on him, forced him outside the city,
58 པཤྩཱཏ྄ ཏཾ ནགརཱད྄ བཧིཿ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ པྲསྟརཻརཱགྷྣན྄ སཱཀྵིཎོ ལཱཀཱཿ ཤཽལནཱམྣོ ཡཱུནཤྩརཎསནྣིདྷཽ ནིཛཝསྟྲཱཎི སྠཱཔིཏཝནྟཿ།
and began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59 ཨནནྟརཾ ཧེ པྲབྷོ ཡཱིཤེ མདཱིཡམཱཏྨཱནཾ གྲྀཧཱཎ སྟིཕཱནསྱེཏི པྲཱརྠནཝཱཀྱཝདནསམཡེ ཏེ ཏཾ པྲསྟརཻརཱགྷྣན྄།
And they stoned Stephen, while he cried to the Lord, “Lord Jesus! Receive my spirit!”
60 ཏསྨཱཏ྄ ས ཛཱནུནཱི པཱཏཡིཏྭཱ པྲོཙྩཻཿ ཤབྡཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ, ཧེ པྲབྷེ པཱཔམེཏད྄ ཨེཏེཥུ མཱ སྠཱཔཡ, ཨིཏྱུཀྟྭཱ མཧཱནིདྲཱཾ པྲཱཔྣོཏ྄།
Falling on his knees, he called out loudly, “Lord! Do not charge them with this sin;” and with these words he fell asleep.
