Numbers 18
1 परमप्रभुले हारूनलाई भन्नुभयो, “अब उसो तिमी, तिम्रा छोराहरू अनि तिम्रा परिवारिक समूहका मानिसहरू पवित्र स्थानमा केही खराबी गरिए जिम्मावारी हुनेछौ। तिमी र तिम्रा छोराहरू पूजाहारीहरू विरूद्ध गरिएको खराबीको निम्ति जिम्मावारी हुनेछौ।
2 तिम्रो परिवार समूहका अन्य लेवी मानिसहरूलाई तिमीसित काम गराउन ल्याऊ। करारको पालमा काम गर्दा तिम्रा छोराहरूलाई तिनीहरूले सहयोग पुर्याउने छन्।
3 लेवी कुलमा भएका ती मानिसहरू तिम्रो नियन्त्रणमा रहनेछन्। पालभित्र गरिनु पर्ने भैपरी आँउने कामहरू तिनीहरूले गर्नेछन्। तर पवित्र स्थान अथवा वेदीमा राखिएको कुनै पनि चीजको नजिक तिनीहरू जानु हुँदैन। यदि तिनीहरू गए भने तिनीहरू मर्नेछन् अनि तिमी पनि मर्ने छौ।
4 तिनीहरूले तिमीसित भेट गर्नेछन् र तिमीसितै काम गर्ने छन्। भेट हुने पालको रेख देख गर्ने तिनीहरूको काम हुनेछ पाल भित्र गरिने सबै काम तिनीहरूले गर्ने छन्। कोही पनि तिमी जहाँ छौ त्यहाँ आउनु साहस गर्नेछैन।
5 “तिमीले पवित्र स्थान र वेदीको रक्षकको काम गर्नेछौ ताकि मैले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूसित रिसाउन नपरोस्।
6 हेर! म आफैले ती तिम्रा दाज्यू-भाइ लेवीहरू इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको बीचबाट लिएकोछु। भेट हुने पालमा काम गर्नको निम्ति ती तिम्रो निम्ति बलि हुन्।
7 तर तिमी र तिम्रो छोराहरू मात्र पूजाहारीको रूपमा सेवा गर्नलाई अनि वेदीको छेउ र पर्दाभित्र जान अनि म तिमीलाई एउटा उपहार दिंदैछु, त्यो तिम्रो पूजाहारीत्व। तर यदि कुनै व्यक्ति पवित्र स्थानको नजिकमा आयो भने त्यो मारिओस्।”
8 तब परमप्रभुले हारूनलाई भन्नुभयो, “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले मलाई चढाएको सबै पवित्र उपहारहरूको रक्षा गर्नका निम्ति मैले तिमीलाई नियुक्त गरें। मैले तिमी र तिम्रा छोराहरूलाई इस्राएलका मानिसहले चढाएका पवित्र बलिहरू निरन्तर अंशको रूपमा दिएको छु।
9 वेदीहरूबाट पाइने वस्तुहरूमा यो सब भन्दा पवित्र वस्तु हो। मानिसहरूले अन्नबलि, पापबलि, दोषबलिहरू ल्याउँछन्। यी बलिहरू महा पवित्र बलिहरूको र नपाकिएको भागबाट तिमीले आफ्नो अंश पाउनेछौ। ती सब तिमी र तिम्रा छोराहरूको हुनेछन्।
10 तिमीहरूले ती चीजहरू महा पवित्र स्थानमा मात्र खानु पर्छ। तिम्रो परिवारको प्रत्येक पुरूषले खान सक्छन् तर तिमीले याद राख्नु पर्छ कि ती चीजहरू अत्यन्तै पवित्र हुन्।
11 “यो पनि तिम्रै हुनेछ कुनै पनि विशेष उपहार इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले मलाई चढाउँछन्, तिमीसित भएका तिम्रा छोरा-छोरीहरू र तिम्रो निम्ति स्थायी अंशको रूपमा दिन्छु। तिम्रो परिवारका प्रत्येक शुद्ध व्याक्तिले त्यो खान सक्छन्।
12 “इस्राएलका मानिसरूको कुनै पनि पहिलो बाली अथवा उब्जनी जस्तै अन्न, भद्राक्षको तेल र दाखरस, जो तिनीहरूले परमप्रभुमा समर्पण गर्छन, म ती सब तिमीलाई दिन्छु।
13 तिनीहरूको खेतमा पाकेको कुनै पनि अन्न जो तिनीहरूले परमप्रभुलाई चढाउन ल्याउँछन् त्यो तिम्रो हो र तिम्रो परिवारको कुनै पनि शुद्ध व्याक्तिले त्यो खान सक्छ।
14 “इस्राएलमा प्रत्येक चीज जो परमेश्वरलाई पूर्णरूपले समर्पण गरिन्छ त्यो तिम्रो हो।
15 “प्रत्येक जेठो चाहे व्यक्ति होस अथवा पशु जो आफ्नो आमाको प्रथम गर्भमा आँउछ र परमेश्वरलाई समर्पण गरिन्छ भने त्यो तिम्रो हुनेछ। तर जेठो जन्मेको पशु होस् अथवा मानिस त्यसको तिमीले मोल तिर्नु पर्छ।
16 जब नानी एक महीनाको हुँदा तिनीहरूले यसको मोल तिर्नु पर्छ। एक महिनाको नानीहरूको मोल पवित्रस्थानको शेकेल परिमाण अनुसार पाँच सेकेल हुन्छ। एक शेकेल बीस गेराको हुन्छ!
17 “तर पहिले जन्मेको गाई, भेडा अथवा बाख्राको मोल तिर्नु पर्दैन। यी पशुहरू पवित्र हुन र यिनीहरूको रगत वेदीमा छर्किईन्छ अथवा बोसो पोलिन्छ। यो उपहार आगोमा पोलेर दिइन्छ र यसको सुगन्धले परमप्रभुलाई सन्तुष्ट पार्छ।
18 तर यी पशुहरूको मासु भने तिम्रो हुनेछ अनि डोलाइने बलिको ह्याकुलो तिम्रो हुनेछ र अरू बलिको दाहिने साँप्रा पनि तिम्रो हुनेछ।
19 मानिसहरूले चढाएको कुनै पनि पवित्र उपहारहरू म, परमप्रभुले तिमीलाई दिनेछु। म तिम्रो छोरा-छोरीहरू र तिमीलाई दिनेछु र यो नियम सदासर्वदाको निम्ति लागू हुनेछ। यो परमप्रभुसित गरिएको करार हो र भङ्ग गर्न सकिंदैन। म यो प्रतिज्ञा तिमी र तिम्रा सन्तानहरूसित गर्छु।”
20 परमप्रभुले हारूनलाई पनि भन्नुभयो, “तिमीले भूमि पाउनेछैनौं। अनि अरू मानिसहरूले झैं तिमीले त्यहाँ केही आफ्नो बनाउनु पाउने छैनौ। म परमप्रभु नै तिम्रो हुनेछु। प्रतिज्ञा गरिएको अनुसार इस्राएली मानिसहरूले जग्गाजमीनहरू पाउनेछन् तर तिम्रो निम्ति म नै उपहार हुँ।
21 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले तिनीहरूसित भएको प्रत्येक चीजको दशांश मलाई दिन्छन्। यसकारण त्यो एक दशांश भाग म लेवीका सन्तानहरूलाई दिन्छु। यो तिनीहरूले भेट हुने पालमा छँदा त्यहाँ काम गरे बापत पारिश्रमिक हो।
22 तर अन्य मानिसहरू भेट हुने पालको नजीक जानु हुँदैन। यदि गए तिनीहरू मारिनु पर्छ।
23 लेवी मानिसहरू काम गरिरहेको समयमा भेट हुने पालको विरोधमा कुनै पाप कार्य हुन गए त्यस पापको उत्तरदायी तिनीहरू हुनेछन्। यही नियम सदासर्वदाको निम्ति लागू रहनेछ। मैले अरू मानिसहरूलाई दिन्छु भनी प्रतिज्ञा गरेको भूमि लेवी मानिसहरूले पाउने छैनन्।
24 तर तिनीहरू संग भएको प्रत्येक चीजको दशांश इस्राएली मानिसहरूले मलाई चढाउनेछन् र त्यो दशांश म लेवी मानिसहरूलाई दिनेछु। त्यही कारणले लेवी मानिसहरूको विषयमा मैले यस्तो भनेः मैले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई दिन्छु भनी प्रतिज्ञा गरेको भूमि तिनीहरूले पाउने छैनन्।”
25 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्नुभयो,
26 “लेवी मानिसहरूसित कुरा गर अनि भन, इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले तिनीहरूसित भएको प्रत्येक चीजको दशांश मलाई दिनेछन् तर त्यसबाट दशांश उपहार स्वरूप परमप्रभुलाई चढाउनु पर्छ।
27 अनि यो दशांश परमप्रभुको उपहार हो, यो तिमीहरूले कोल अथवा खलाबाट चढाएका बलि झैं हुन्।
28 यस्तै प्रकारले इस्राएली मानिसहरूले तिमीहरूलाई दशांश दिए जस्तै तिमीहरूले पनि परमप्रभुलाई उपहार चढाउनु पर्छ अनि त्यसबाट तिमीहरूले पनि परमप्रभुलाई उपहार दिनु पर्छ अनि यो हारूनलाई दिनु पर्छ।
29 जब इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले तिनीहरूको उपहारहरू परमप्रभुलाई दिन्छन्, तिमीहरूले तिमीहरूमा सबै भन्दा असल अनि महापवित्र परमप्रभुलाई चढाउनु पर्छ कारण त्यो सबै उहाँको हुनेछ।
30 “मोशा, लेवी मानिसहरूलाई भन जब तिमीहरूले प्रत्येक असल चीज परमप्रभुलाई चढाउँछौ जे इस्राएली मानिसहरूले दिएका थिए, तब यो सम्झिन्छ कि लेवीहरूको आफ्नै अन्न र अर्धबलि हो।
31 त्यसबाट रहेको अंश तिमीहरू र तिमीहरूका परिवारले खानेछन्। यो तिमीहरूले भेट हुने पालमा काम गरे वापत मूल्य हो।
32 अनि यदि तिमीहरूले यसको असल सँधै परमप्रभुलाई चढायौ भने तिमीहरू कदापि दोषी हुने छैनौ। तिम्रो आफ्नै निम्ति इस्राएलका मानिसहरू द्वारा चढाएका ती पवित्र उपहारहरूको भाग नलैजाऊ नत्र भने तिमीहरू मर्ने छौ।”
1 And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.
13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord.
18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.
27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord;
3 Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The Lord saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God.
9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.
17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
18 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.