Numbers 11

1 फिर वे लोग बुड़बुड़ाने और यहोवा के सुनते बुरा कहने लगे; निदान यहोवा ने सुना, और उसका कोप भड़क उठा, और यहोवा की आग उनके मध्य जल उठी, और छावनी के एक किनारे से भस्म करने लगी।

2 तब मूसा के पास आकर चिल्लाए; और मूसा ने यहोवा से प्रार्थना की, तब वह आग बुझ गई,

3 और उस स्थान का नाम तबेरा पड़ा, क्योंकि यहोवा की आग उन में जल उठी थी॥

4 फिर जो मिली-जुली भीड़ उनके साथ थी वह कामुकता करने लगी; और इस्त्राएली भी फिर रोने और कहने लगे, कि हमें मांस खाने को कौन देगा।

5 हमें वे मछलियां स्मरण हैं जो हम मिस्र में सेंतमेंत खाया करते थे, और वे खीरे, और खरबूजे, और गन्दने, और प्याज, और लहसुन भी;

6 परन्तु अब हमारा जी घबरा गया है, यहां पर इस मन्ना को छोड़ और कुछ भी देख नहीं पड़ता।

7 मन्ना तो धनिये के समान था, और उसका रंग रूप मोती का सा था।

8 लोग इधर उधर जा कर उसे बटोरते, और चक्की में पीसते वा ओखली में कूटते थे, फिर तसले में पकाते, और उसके फुलके बनाते थे; और उसका स्वाद तेल में बने हुए पुए का सा था।

9 और रात को छावनी में ओस पड़ती थी तब उसके साथ मन्ना भी गिरता था।

10 और मूसा ने सब घरानों के आदमियों को अपने अपने डेरे के द्वार पर रोते सुना; और यहोवा का कोप अत्यन्त भड़का, और मूसा को भी बुरा मालूम हुआ।

11 तब मूसा ने यहोवा से कहा, तू अपने दास से यह बुरा व्यवहार क्यों करता है? और क्या कारण है कि मैं ने तेरी दृष्टि में अनुग्रह नहीं पाया, कि तू ने इन सब लोगों का भार मुझ पर डाला है?

12 क्या ये सब लोग मेरे ही कोख में पड़े थे? क्या मैं ही ने उन को उत्पन्न किया, जो तू मुझ से कहता है, कि जैसे पिता दूध पीते बालक को अपनी गोद में उठाए उठाए फिरता है, वैसे ही मैं इन लोगों को अपनी गोद में उठा कर उस देश में ले जाऊं, जिसके देने की शपथ तू ने उनके पूर्वजों से खाई है?

13 मुझे इतना मांस कहां से मिले कि इन सब लोगों को दूं? ये तो यह कह कहकर मेरे पास रो रहे हैं, कि तू हमे मांस खाने को दे।

14 मैं अकेला इन सब लोगों का भार नहीं सम्भाल सकता, क्योंकि यह मेरी शक्ति के बाहर है।

15 और जो तुझे मेरे साथ यही व्यवहार करना है, तो मुझ पर तेरा इतना अनुग्रह हो, कि तू मेरे प्राण एकदम ले ले, जिस से मैं अपनी दुर्दशा न देखने पाऊं॥

16 यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा, इस्त्राएली पुरनियों में से सत्तर ऐसे पुरूष मेरे पास इकट्ठे कर, जिन को तू जानता है कि वे प्रजा के पुरनिये और उनके सरदार हैं; और मिलापवाले तम्बू के पास ले आ, कि वे तेरे साथ यहां खड़े हों।

17 तब मैं उतरकर तुझ से वहां बातें करूंगा; और जो आत्मा तुझ में है उस में से कुछ ले कर उन में समवाऊंगा; और वे इन लोगों का भार तेरे संग उठाए रहेंगे, और तुझे उसको अकेले उठाना न पड़ेगा।

18 और लोगों से कह, कल के लिये अपने को पवित्र करो, तब तुम्हें मांस खाने को मिलेगा; क्योंकि तुम यहोवा के सुनते हुए यह कह कहकर रोए हो, कि हमें मांस खाने को कौन देगा? हम मिस्र ही में भले थे। सो यहोवा तुम को मांस खाने को देगा, और तुम खाना।

19 फिर तुम एक दिन, वा दो, वा पांच, वा दस, वा बीस दिन ही नहीं,

20 परन्तु महीने भर उसे खाते रहोगे, जब तक वह तुम्हारे नथनों से निकलने न लगे और तुम को उससे घृणा न हो जाए, क्योंकि तुम लोगों ने यहोवा को जो तुम्हारे मध्य में है तुच्छ जाना है, और उसके साम्हने यह कहकर रोए हो, कि हम मिस्र से क्यों निकल आए?

21 फिर मूसा ने कहा, जिन लोगों के बीच मैं हूं उन में से छ: लाख तो प्यादे ही हैं; और तू ने कहा है, कि मैं उन्हें इतना मांस दूंगा, कि वे महीने भर उसे खाते ही रहेंगे।

22 क्या वे सब भेड़-बकरी गाय-बैल उनके लिये मारे जाएं, कि उन को मांस मिले? वा क्या समुद्र की सब मछलियां उनके लिये इकट्ठी की जाएं, कि उन को मांस मिले?

23 यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा, क्या यहोवा का हाथ छोटा हो गया है? अब तू देखेगा, कि मेरा वचन जो मैं ने तुझ से कहा है वह पूरा होता है कि नहीं।

24 तब मूसा ने बाहर जा कर प्रजा के लोगों को यहोवा की बातें कह सुनाईं; और उनके पुरनियों में से सत्तर पुरूष इकट्ठे करके तम्बू के चारों ओर खड़े किए।

25 तब यहोवा बादल में हो कर उतरा और उसने मूसा से बातें की, और जो आत्मा उस में थी उस में से ले कर उन सत्तर पुरनियों में समवा दिया; और जब वह आत्मा उन में आई तब वे नबूवत करने लगे। परन्तु फिर और कभी न की।

26 परन्तु दो मनुष्य छावनी में रह गए थे, जिस में से एक का नाम एलदाद और दूसरे का मेदाद था, उन में भी आत्मा आई; ये भी उन्हीं में से थे जिनके नाम लिख लिये गए थे, पर तम्बू के पास न गए थे, और वे छावनी ही में नबूवत करने लगे।

27 तब किसी जवान ने दौड़ कर मूसा को बतलाया, कि एलदाद और मेदाद छावनी में नबूवत कर रहे हैं।

28 तब नून का पुत्र यहोशू, जो मूसा का टहलुआ और उसके चुने हुए वीरों में से था, उसने मूसा से कहा, हे मेरे स्वामी मूसा, उन को रोक दे।

29 मूसा ने उन से कहा, क्या तू मेरे कारण जलता है? भला होता कि यहोवा की सारी प्रजा के लोग नबी होते, और यहोवा अपना आत्मा उन सभों में समवा देता!

30 तब फिर मूसा इस्त्राएल के पुरनियों समेत छावनी में चला गया।

31 तब यहोवा की ओर से एक बड़ी आंधी आई, और वह समुद्र से बटेरें उड़ाके छावनी पर और उसके चारों ओर इतनी ले आईं, कि वे इधर उधर एक दिन के मार्ग तक भूमि पर दो हाथ के लगभग ऊंचे तक छा गए।

32 और लोगों ने उठ कर उस दिन भर और रात भर, और दूसरे दिन भी दिन भर बटेरों को बटोरते रहे; जिसने कम से कम बटोरा उसने दस होमेर बटोरा; और उन्होंने उन्हें छावनी के चारों ओर फैला दिया।

33 मांस उनके मुंह ही में था, और वे उसे खाने न पाए थे, कि यहोवा का कोप उन पर भड़क उठा, और उसने उन को बहुत बड़ी मार से मारा।

34 और उस स्थान का नाम किब्रोथत्तावा पड़ा, क्योंकि जिन लोगों ने कामुकता की थी उन को वहां मिट्टी दी गई।

35 फिर इस्त्राएली किब्रोथत्तावा से प्रस्थान करके हसेरोत में पहुंचे, और वहीं रहे॥

1 And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

11 And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

23 And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.

27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

31 And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

35 And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.

1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.

2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,

5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.

6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.

9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.

10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.

20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

21 And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.

27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.

28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.