ગણના 9
1 મિસરમાંથી પ્રસ્થાન કર્યા પછી બીજા વર્ષના પ્રથમ મહિનામાં ઇસ્રાએલી પ્રજા અને મૂસા સિનાઈના અરણ્યમાં હતા ત્યારે યહોવાએ મૂસાને કહ્યું,
2 “ઇસ્રાએલી પ્રજાએ નિયત સમયે પાસ્ખાપર્વ પાળવાનું છે.
3 પાસ્ખાપર્વ પ્રથમ મહિનામાં ચૌદમાં દિવસની સંધ્યાઓ શરૂ થાય છે. તમાંરે એને લગતા બધા નિયમો અને વિધિઓનું ચુસ્તપણે પાલન કરવાનું છે.”
4 તેથી મૂસાએ ઇસ્રાએલી પ્રજાને પાસ્ખાપર્વ ઉજવવાની આજ્ઞા કરી.
5 ઇસ્રાએલી પ્રજાએ પાસ્ખા પર્વની ઉજવણી સિનાઈના અરણ્યમાં પ્રથમ મહિનાના ચૌદમાં દિવસે સંધ્યાકાળે શરૂ કરી હતી. યહોવાએ મૂસાને સૂચવ્યું હતું તે મુજબ ઇસ્રાએલીઓએ કર્યું.
6 પરંતુ એવું બન્યું કે કેટલાક માંણસો મૃતદેહના સ્પર્શથી અશુદ્ધ થયા હતા, તેઓ દફનક્રિયામાં હતા તેથી તે દિવસે પાસ્ખાપર્વ પાળી શકે એમ નહોતું. તેમણે તે જ દિવસે મૂસા અને હારુનની પાસે જઈને પોતાની હકીકત દર્શાવી.
7 તેઓએ મૂસાને કહ્યું, “અમે મૃત દેહના સ્પર્શથી અશુદ્ધ થયેલા છીએ. સર્વ ઇસ્રાએલીઓ નિયત સમયે યહોવાને બલિદાન અર્પણ કરે છે. તે અમને શા માંટે તેમ કરવાની મનાઈ કરવામાં આવે છે?”
8 મૂસાએ તેમને કહ્યું, “તમાંરી બાબતમાં યહોવાની આજ્ઞા શી છે તે હું જાણી લઉ ત્યાં સુધી તમે ધીરજ ધરો.”
9 યહોવાએ મૂસાને કહ્યું,
10 “તારે ઇસ્રાએલીઓને આ પ્રમાંણે કહેવું કે: તમાંરામાંથી અથવા તમાંરા વંશજોમાંથી કોઈ મૃતદેહના સ્પર્શને કારણે અશુદ્ધ થયો હોય અથવા દૂર પ્રવાસમાં હોય, તો પણ માંરા માંનમાં પાસ્ખા નીચે પ્રમાંણે પાળી શકે છે.
11 આવા લોકો બીજા મહિનાના ચૌદમાં દિવસે સંધ્યાકાળે ઉજવણી શરૂ કરી શકે છે. તેઓએ અર્પણ કરેલુ હલવાન બેખમીર રોટલી તથા કડવી ભાજી સાથે ખાવું;
12 એમાંનું કશું સવાર સુધી રહેવા દેવું નહિ, તેમજ એ બલિના પશુનું કોઈ હાડકું ભાંગવું પણ નહિ. તેમણે એ પાસ્ખાને લગતા બધા નિયમો અને વિધિઓનું પાલન કરવું.
13 પરંતુ જો કોઈ વ્યક્તિ અશુદ્ધ ના હોય તે લાંબા પ્રવાસમાં હોય અને પાસ્ખાનું પાલન ન કરે, તો તેને તેના લોકોથી જુદો કરવો. કારણ, એણે નિયત સમયે યહોવાને બલિદાન અર્પણ નથી કર્યુ, તેથી તે દોષિત ગણાય અને એનું પાપ એણે ભોગવવું જ જોઈએ.
14 “પરંતુ તમાંરી વચ્ચે કોઈ વિદેશી રહેતો હોય અને તે પાસ્ખા ઊજવવા ઈચ્છતો હોય તો તેણે પણ એના બધા નિયમો અને વિધિઓ પ્રમાંણે એ ઊજવવું જોઈએ. દેશના વતનીઓ તથા વિદેશીઓ સૌને માંટે એક જ નિયમ છે.”
15 જે દિવસે કરારનો પવિત્રમંડપ એટલે કરારમંડપ ઊભો કરવામાં આવ્યો તે જ દિવસે તેના પર વાદળે આચ્છાદન કર્યુ. અને સાંજે વાદળનું સ્થાન અગ્નિએ લીધું અને આખી રાત તે ઝળહળતો રહ્યો.
16 આ પ્રમાંણે હંમેશા થતું રહ્યું. દિવસે વાદળ આચ્છાદન કરતો અને રાત્રે અગ્નિની જેમ ઝળહળતું.
17 જ્યારે જ્યારે પવિત્ર મંડપ ઉપરથી વાદળ હઠી જતું, ત્યારે ત્યારે ઇસ્રાએલી પ્રજા મુકામ ઉઠાવતી, અને આગળ મુસાફરી કરતી અને જયાં જયાં વાદળ થોભે ત્યાં ત્યાં મુકામ કરતી.
18 આમ યહોવાની આજ્ઞા પ્રમાંણે તેઓ મુકામ ઉઠાવતા મુસાફરી કરતા અને મુકામ કરતા. જયાં સુધી વાદળનું આચ્છાદન લાંબા સમય સુધી રહે તો ત્યાં સુધી તેઓ મુકામ ચાલુ રાખતા.
19 જો વાદળ લાંબા સમય સુધી પવિત્રમંડપ પર રહેતું તો ઇસ્રાએલી પ્રજા યહોવાની આજ્ઞા માંથે ચઢાવીને આગળ પ્રવાસ કરતી નહિ અને લાંબા સમય સુધી ત્યાં જ રોકાતી.
20 પરંતુ કેટલીક વખત વાદળ થોડા દિવસ જ મુલાકાત મંડપ પર રહેતું ત્યારે પણ તેઓ યહોવાની આજ્ઞા થતાં મુકામ કરતા અને યહોવાની આજ્ઞા થતા મુકામ ઉઠાવતા.
21 કેટલીક વખત વાદળ સાંજથી સવાર સુધી રહેતું, સવારે વાદળ હઠતાં જ તેઓ મુકામ ઉઠાવતા, અને તેને અનુસરતાં. જો તે રાતના હઠતાં તો તેને અનુસરતા.
22 જયાં સુધી વાદળ પવિત્રમંડપ પર ભલે રહે પછી એ બે દિવસ માંટે હોય, એક મહિના માંટે હોય કે એક વર્ષ માંટે હોય ત્યાં સુધી ઇસ્રાએલીઓ મુકામ ઉઠાવતા નહિ; જયારે વાદળ હઠતું ત્યારે જ તેઓ મુકામ ઉઠાવી પ્રવાસ કરતા.
23 આમ તેઓ યહોવાની આજ્ઞા અનુસાર છાવણી કરતાં અથવા પ્રવાસ કરતા, યહોવા મૂસા દ્વારા તેઓને જે આજ્ઞા કરે તે પ્રમાંણે તેઓ કરતા.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.
9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.
11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.
20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.
21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed: they kept the charge of the Lord, at the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
3 The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.