गिनती 12
1 मूसा ने तो एक कूशी स्त्री के साथ ब्याह कर लिया था। सो मरियम और हारून उसकी उस ब्याहिता कूशी स्त्री के कारण उसकी निन्दा करने लगे;
2 उन्होंने कहा, क्या यहोवा ने केवल मूसा ही के साथ बातें की हैं? क्या उसने हम से भी बातें नहीं कीं? उनकी यह बात यहोवा ने सुनी।
3 मूसा तो पृथ्वी भर के रहने वाले मनुष्यों से बहुत अधिक नम्र स्वभाव का था।
4 सो यहोवा ने एकाएक मूसा और हारून और मरियम से कहा, तुम तीनों मिलापवाले तम्बू के पास निकल आओ। तब वे तीनों निकल आए।
5 तब यहोवा ने बादल के खम्भे में उतरकर तम्बू के द्वार पर खड़ा हो कर हारून और मरियम को बुलाया; सो वे दोनों उसके पास निकल आए।
6 तब यहोवा ने कहा, मेरी बातें सुनो: यदि तुम में कोई नबी हो, तो उस पर मैं यहोवा दर्शन के द्वारा अपने आप को प्रगट करूंगा, वा स्वप्न में उससे बातें करूंगा।
7 परन्तु मेरा दास मूसा ऐसा नहीं है; वह तो मेरे सब घरानों में विश्वास योग्य है।
8 उससे मैं गुप्त रीति से नहीं, परन्तु आम्हने साम्हने और प्रत्यक्ष हो कर बातें करता हूं; और वह यहोवा का स्वरूप निहारने पाता है। सो तुम मेरे दास मूसा की निन्दा करते हुए क्यों नहीं डरे?
9 तब यहोवा का कोप उन पर भड़का, और वह चला गया;
10 तब वह बादल तम्बू के ऊपर से उठ गया, और मरियम कोढ़ से हिम के समान श्वेत हो गई। और हारून ने मरियम की ओर दृष्टि की, और देखा, कि वह कोढ़िन हो गई है।
11 तब हारून मूसा से कहने लगा, हे मेरे प्रभु, हम दोनों ने जो मूर्खता की वरन पाप भी किया, यह पाप हम पर न लगने दे।
12 और मरियम को उस मरे हुए के समान न रहने दे, जिसकी देह अपनी मां के पेट से निकलते ही अधगली हो।
13 सो मूसा ने यह कहकर यहोवा की दोहाई दी, हे ईश्वर, कृपा कर, और उसको चंगा कर।
14 यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा, यदि उसका पिता उसके मुंह पर थूका ही होता, तो क्या सात दिन तक वह लज्जित न रहती? सो वह सात दिन तक छावनी से बाहर बन्द रहे, उसके बाद वह फिर भीतर आने पाए।
15 सो मरियम सात दिन तक छावनी से बाहर बन्द रही, और जब तक मरियम फिर आने न पाई तब तक लोगों ने प्रस्थान न किया।
16 उसके बाद उन्होंने हसेरोत से प्रस्थान करके पारान नाम जंगल में अपने डेरे खड़े किए॥
1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2 And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it.
3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
4 And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
5 And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.
10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
13 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
14 And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
8 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying,
9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire: for so I am commanded.
14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a statute for ever; as the Lord hath commanded.
16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.
19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?
20 And when Moses heard that, he was content.