निर्गमन 23
1 झूठी बात न फैलाना। अन्यायी साक्षी हो कर दुष्ट का साथ न देना।
2 बुराई करने के लिये न तो बहुतों के पीछे हो लेना; और न उनके पीछे फिरके मुकद्दमें में न्याय बिगाड़ने को साक्षी देना;
3 और कंगाल के मुकद्दमें में उसका भी पक्ष न करना॥
4 यदि तेरे शत्रु का बैल वा गदहा भटकता हुआ तुझे मिले, तो उसे उसके पास अवश्य फेर ले आना।
5 फिर यदि तू अपने बैरी के गदहे को बोझ के मारे दबा हुआ देखे, तो चाहे उसको उसके स्वामी के लिये छुड़ाने के लिये तेरा मन न चाहे, तौभी अवश्य स्वामी का साथ देकर उसे छुड़ा लेना॥
6 तेरे लोगों में से जो दरिद्र हों उसके मुकद्दमे में न्याय न बिगाड़ना।
7 झूठे मुकद्दमे से दूर रहना, और निर्दोष और धर्मी को घात न करना, क्योंकि मैं दुष्ट को निर्दोष न ठहराऊंगा।
8 घूस न लेना, क्योंकि घूस देखने वालों को भी अन्धा कर देता, और धर्मियों की बातें पलट देता है।
9 परदेशी पर अन्धेर न करना; तुम तो परदेशी के मन की बातें जानते हो, क्योंकि तुम भी मिस्र देश में परदेशी थे॥
10 छ: वर्ष तो अपनी भूमि में बोना और उसकी उपज इकट्ठी करना;
11 परन्तु सातवें वर्ष में उसको पड़ती रहने देना और वैसा ही छोड़ देना, तो तेरे भाई बन्धुओं में के दरिद्र लोग उससे खाने पाएं, और जो कुछ उन से भी बचे वह बनैले पशुओं के खाने के काम में आए। और अपनी दाख और जलपाई की बारियों को भी ऐसे ही करना।
12 छ: दिन तक तो अपना काम काज करना, और सातवें दिन विश्राम करना; कि तेरे बैल और गदहे सुस्ताएं, और तेरी दासियों के बेटे और परदेशी भी अपना जी ठंडा कर सकें।
13 और जो कुछ मैं ने तुम से कहा है उस में सावधान रहना; और दूसरे देवताओं के नाम की चर्चा न करना, वरन वे तुम्हारे मुंह से सुनाईं भी न दें।
14 प्रति वर्ष तीन बार मेरे लिये पर्ब्ब मानना।
15 अखमीरी रोटी का पर्ब्ब मानना; उस में मेरी आज्ञा के अनुसार अबीब महीने के नियत समय पर सात दिन तक अखमीरी रोटी खाया करना, क्योंकि उसी महीने में तुम मिस्र से निकल आए। और मुझ को कोई छूछे हाथ अपना मुंह न दिखाए।
16 और जब तेरी बोई हुई खेती की पहिली उपज तैयार हो, तब कटनी का पर्ब्ब मानना। और वर्ष के अन्त में जब तू परिश्रम के फल बटोर के ढेर लगाए, तब बटोरन का पर्ब्ब मानना।
17 प्रति वर्ष तीनों बार तेरे सब पुरूष प्रभु यहोवा को अपना मुंह दिखाएं॥
18 मेरे बलिपशु का लोहू खमीरी रोटी के संग न चढ़ाना, और न मेरे पर्ब्ब के उत्तम बलिदान में से कुछ बिहान तक रहने देना।
19 अपनी भूमि की पहिली उपज का पहिला भाग अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा के भवन में ले आना। बकरी का बच्चा उसकी माता के दूध में न पकाना॥
20 सुन, मैं एक दूत तेरे आगे आगे भेजता हूं जो मार्ग में तेरी रक्षा करेगा, और जिस स्थान को मैं ने तैयार किया है उस में तुझे पहुंचाएगा।
21 उसके साम्हने सावधान रहना, और उसकी मानना, उसका विरोध न करना, क्योंकि वह तुम्हारा अपराध क्षमा न करेगा; इसलिये कि उस में मेरा नाम रहता है।
22 और यदि तू सचमुच उसकी माने और जो कुछ मैं कहूं वह करे, तो मैं तेरे शत्रुओं का शत्रु और तेरे द्रोहियों का द्रोही बनूंगा।
23 इस रीति मेरा दूत तेरे आगे आगे चलकर तुझे एमोरी, हित्ती, परज्जी, कनानी, हिब्बी, और यबूसी लोगों के यहां पहुंचाएगा, और मैं उन को सत्यनाश कर डालूंगा।
24 उनके देवताओं को दण्डवत न करना, और न उनकी उपासना करना, और न उनके से काम करना, वरन उन मूरतों को पूरी रीति से सत्यानाश कर डालना, और उन लोगों की लाटों के टुकड़े टुकड़े कर देना।
25 और तुम अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा की उपासना करना, तब वह तेरे अन्न जल पर आशीष देगा, और तेरे बीच में से रोग दूर करेगा।
26 तेरे देश में न तो किसी का गर्भ गिरेगा और न कोई बांझ होगी; और तेरी आयु मैं पूरी करूंगा।
27 जितने लोगों के बीच तू जायेगा उन सभों के मन में मैं अपना भय पहिले से ऐसा समवा दूंगा कि उन को व्याकुल कर दूंगा, और मैं तुझे सब शत्रुओं की पीठ दिखाऊंगा।
28 और मैं तुझ से पहिले बर्रों को भेजूंगा जो हिब्बी, कनानी, और हित्ती लोगों को तेरे साम्हने से भगा के दूर कर देंगी।
29 मैं उन को तेरे आगे से एक ही वर्ष में तो न निकाल दूंगा, ऐसा न हो कि देश उजाड़ हो जाए, और बनैले पशु बढ़कर तुझे दु:ख देने लगें।
30 जब तक तू फूल फलकर देश को अपने अधिकार में न कर ले तब तक मैं उन्हें तेरे आगे से थोड़ा थोड़ा करके निकालता रहूंगा।
31 मैं लाल समुद्र से ले कर पलिश्तियों के समुद्र तक और जंगल से ले कर महानद तक के देश को तेरे वश में कर दूंगा; मैं उस देश के निवासियों भी तेरे वश में कर दूंगा, और तू उन्हें अपने साम्हने से बरबस निकालेगा।
32 तू न तो उन से वाचा बान्धना और न उनके देवताओं से।
33 वे तेरे देश में रहने न पाएं, ऐसा न हो कि वे तुझ से मेरे विरुद्ध पाप कराएं; क्योंकि यदि तू उनके देवताओं की उपासना करे, तो यह तेरे लिये फंदा बनेगा॥
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
4 If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.
17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.