गन्ती 20
1 पहिलो महीनामा इस्राएलका मानिसहरू जीन मरूभूमिमा आइपुगे। मानिसहरू कादेशमा बसे अनि त्यही मरियम मरिन् र त्यही ठाउँमा गाडे।
2 त्यस ठाँउमा समुदायको निम्ति पानी थिएन यसकारण मानिसहरू मोशा र हारूनलाई आरोप लगाउन भेला भए।
3 मानिसहरूले मोशासित झगडा गरेर भने, “जब परमप्रभुको अगाडी हाम्रा दाज्यू-भाईहरू मरे, त्यही समय हामी पनि मर्नु पर्थ्यो।
4 तिमीहरूले किन परमप्रभुको मानिसहरूलाई यस मरूभूमिमा ल्यायौ? के हामी र हाम्रो पशुहरूलाई मार्न चहान्छौ?
5 अनि किन यस्तो खराब ठाँउमा ल्याउन हामीलाई मिश्र देशदेखि अगुवाई गर्यो? यस ठाँउमा अन्न हुँदैन, नेभारा, दाख अनि अनारहरू पनि हुँदैन। अनि यहाँ पिउनको निम्ति पानी पनि छैन।”
6 यसर्थ मोशा र हारून मानिसहरूको समुदायबाट भेट हुने पालको प्रवेशद्वारमा गए। तिनीहरूले तिनीहरूको शिर भूँईमा निहुरयाए अनि परमप्रभुको महिमा तिनीहरू सामुन्ने देखा पर्यो।
7 परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्नुभयो,
8 “तिमी र तिम्रा दाज्यू हारूनले त्यो लौरो लेऊ र मानिसहरूलाई भेला गर अनि तिनीहरूको सामुन्नेको चट्टानसित बोल। तब चट्टानले तिमीहरूलाई पानी दिनेछ। यसरी मानिसहरू र तिनीहरूको पशुहरूको निम्ति तिमीहरूले चट्टानबाट पानी दिन सक्छौ।”
9 यसकारण परमप्रभुले उसलाई आज्ञा दिनु भए बमोजिम मोशाले परमप्रभुको अघिबाट लौरो लिए।
10 त्यसपछि मोशा र हारूनले मानिसहरूलाई चट्टानको सामुन्ने भेला गराए। तब मोशाले तिनीहरूलाई भने, “तिमीहरू विद्रोही हो। सुन, के हामीले तिमीहरूको निम्ति यो चट्टानबाट पानी ल्याउनु?”
11 तब मोशाले हात उठाएर त्यस चट्टान माथि दुइ पल्ट आफ्नौ लौरोले हिर्काए अनि प्रशस्त पानी बाहिर निस्कयो। मानिसहरू र पशुहरूले पानी पिए।
12 त्यसपछि परमप्रभुले मोशा र हारूनलाई भन्नुभयो, “इस्राएलका सबै मानिसहरू यहाँ भेला भएका थिए तर तिमीहरूले म प्रति सम्मान देखाएनौ। तिमीहरूले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई त्यो पानी निक्लने शक्तिको श्रोत म हुँ भन्ने देखाएनौ। तिमीहरूले उनीहरूलाई यो देखाएनौ की तिमीहरूले म माथि भरोसा गर्यौ। यसकारण यी समुदायलाई मैले दिन्छु भनेको भूमिमा लैजान अगुवाई गर्न पाउने छैनौ।”
13 यही ठाँउलाई मरीबाको पानी भनिन्छ जहाँ इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले परमप्रभु अघि विद्रोह गरेका थिए अनि परमप्रभुले यहाँ नै इस्राएली मानिसहरूको बीचमा आफू पवित्र हुँ भन्ने देखाउनु भएको थियो।
14 मोशाले कादेशबाट एदोमको राजाकहाँ यो समाचार पुर्याउन दूतहरू पठाए। तपाईंको भाई इस्राएलले यसो भन्छ, “हामीमाथि आई परेका आफ्दहरू तपाईंलाई थाहा छ।
15 धेरै वर्ष अघि हाम्रा पुर्खाहरू मिश्र देश गएका थिए अनि हामी त्यहाँ धेरै समय सम्म बस्यौं। मिश्र देशका मानिसहरू हामी प्रति निष्ठुर थिए।
16 तर हामीले परमप्रभुलाई सहायता माग्यौं। परमप्रभुले हाम्रो बिन्ति सुन्नु भयो र एउटा स्वर्गदूत हामीकहाँ पठाउनु भयो, परमप्रभुले हामीलाई मिश्र देशबाट बाहिर ल्याउनु भएको छ।“अहिले हामी तपाईंको सिमान कादेशमा छौं।
17 दया गरी हामीलाई तपाईंको भूमि भएर यात्रा गर्न दिनुहोस्। हामी खेत तथा दाखबारी भएर जानेछैनौं, त्यस ठाँउको कुवाहरूबाट पानी पिउँने छैनौं, हामी केवल राजमार्गमा हिड्नेछौं, कतै दायाँ बाया जाने छैनौं। जब सम्म तपाईंको देशमा यात्रा गर्छौ हामी बाटोमा नै रहनेछौं।”
18 तर एदोमका राजाले उत्तर दिए, “हाम्रो देश भएर तिमीहरू यात्रा गर्न पाउँदैनौ। यदि हिड्ने चेष्टा गरे हामी तरबार लिएर तिमीहरूसित लडन आउनेछौं।”
19 इस्राएलीहरूले उत्तर दिए, “हामी खाली मूलबाटै भएर मात्र जानेछौं। अनि यदि हाम्रा पशुहरूले कुनै पानी पिए त्यसको मोल तिर्नेछौ। हामी खाली तपाईंको देशको बाटोमा हिड्न चाहान्छौं, हाम्रो निम्ति अरू केही चाहिंदैन।”
20 तर फेरि एदोमले उत्तर दिए, “हाम्रो देशमा तिमीहरूलाई आउन दिंदैनौं।” तब एदोमले शक्तिशाली धेरै सेनाहरू भेला पारेर इस्राएलका मानिसहरूसित युद्ध गर्न निस्के।
21 एदोमले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई आफ्नो भूमिको बाटोबाट यात्रा गर्न दिएनन् तिनीहरू अर्कै बाटो भएर गए।
22 इस्राएलका सबै मानिसहरूले कादेशबाट होर पर्वत सम्म यात्रा गरे।
23 होर पर्वत एदोमको सिमाना नजिक थियो। परमप्रभुले मोशालाई भन्नुभयो,
24 “अब हारून उसको पुर्खाहरूसित मिल्नेछ। तिमी र हारूनले मरीबाको पानीमा मैले दिएको आज्ञा पालन नगरेकोले मैले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई दिन्छु भनेको भूमिमा तिमीहरू पस्न पाउने छैनौ।
25 “अब हारून र तिनका छोरो एलाजारलाई होर पर्वतमा लिएर आऊ।
26 हारूनको लुगा खोलेर उसको छोरो एलाजारलाई लगाई देऊ। हारून त्यहाँ पर्वतमा मर्छ र आफ्नो पिता-पुर्खाहरूसित मिल्न जान्छ।”
27 मोशाले परमप्रभुको आज्ञा पालन गरे। मोशा, हारून र एलाजार होर पर्वतमा गए। सबै इस्राएली मानिसहरूले तिनीहरू गएको देखे।
28 मोशाले हारूनको खास लुगाहरू फुकाइदिएर एलाजारलाई लगाई दिए। त्यसपछि हारून त्यहीं पर्वतमा मरे अनि मोशा र एलाजार पर्वतबाट तल झरे।
29 हारून मरेको इस्राएलका सबै मानिसहरूले चाल पाए अनि तीस दिनसम्म शोक पालन गरे।
1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.
7 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
16 And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
27 And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.
5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the Lord.
23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.