Numbers 18
1 फिर यहोवा ने हारून से कहा, कि पवित्रस्थान के अधर्म का भार तुझ पर, और तेरे पुत्रों और तेरे पिता के घराने पर होगा; और तुम्हारा याजक कर्म के अधर्म का भार भी तेरे पुत्रों पर होगा।
2 और लेवी का गोत्र, अर्थात तेरे मूलपुरूष के गोत्र वाले जो तेरे भाई हैं, उन को भी अपने साथ ले आया कर, और वे तुझ से मिल जाएं, और तेरी सेवा टहल किया करें, परन्तु साक्षीपत्र के तम्बू के साम्हने तू और तेरे पुत्र ही आया करें।
3 जो तुझे सौंपा गया है उसकी और सारे तम्बू की भी वे रक्षा किया करें; परन्तु पवित्रस्थान के पात्रों के और वेदी के समीप न आएं, ऐसा न हो कि वे और तुम लोग भी मर जाओ।
4 सो वे तुझ से मिल जाएं, और मिलापवाले तम्बू की सारी सेवकाई की वस्तुओं की रक्षा किया करें; परन्तु जो तेरे कुल का न हो वह तुम लोगों के समीप न आने पाए।
5 और पवित्रस्थान और वेदी की रखवाली तुम ही किया करो, जिस से इस्त्राएलियों पर फिर कोप न भड़के।
6 परन्तु मैं ने आप तुम्हारे लेवी भाइयों को इस्त्राएलियों के बीच से अलग कर लिया है, और वे मिलापवाले तम्बू की सेवा करने के लिये तुम को और यहोवा को सौंप दिये गए हैं।
7 पर वेदी की और बीच वाले पर्दे के भीतर की बातों की सेवकाई के लिये तू और तेरे पुत्र अपने याजकपद की रक्षा करना, और तुम ही सेवा किया करना; क्योंकि मैं तुम्हें याजकपद की सेवकाई दान करता हूं; और जो तेरे कुल का न हो वह यदि समीप आए तो मार डाला जाए॥
8 फिर यहोवा ने हारून से कहा, सुन, मैं आप तुझ को उठाई हुई भेंट सौंप देता हूं, अर्थात इस्त्राएलियों की पवित्र की हुई वस्तुएं; जितनी हों उन्हें मैं तेरा अभिषेक वाला भाग ठहराकर तुझे और तेरे पुत्रों को सदा का हक करके दे देता हूं।
9 जो परमपवित्र वस्तुएं आग में होम न की जाएंगी वे तेरी ही ठहरें, अर्थात इस्त्राएलियों के सब चढ़ावों में से उनके सब अन्नबलि, सब पापबलि, और सब दोषबलि, जो वे मुझ को दें, वह तेरे और तेरे पुत्रों के लिये परमपवित्र ठहरें।
10 उन को परमपवित्र वस्तु जानकर खाया करना; उन को हर एक पुरूष खा सकता है; वे तेरे लिये पवित्र हैं।
11 फिर ये वस्तुएं भी तेरी ठहरें, अर्थात जितनी भेंट इस्त्राएली हिलाने के लिये दें, उन को मैं तुझे और तेरे बेटे-बेटियों को सदा का हक करके दे देता हूं; तेरे घराने में जितने शुद्ध हों वह उन्हें खा सकेंगे।
12 फिर उत्तम से उत्तम नया दाखमधु, और गेहूं, अर्थात इनकी पहली उपज जो वे यहोवा को दें, वह मैं तुझ को देता हूं।
13 उनके देश के सब प्रकार की पहली उपज, जो वे यहोवा के लिये ले आएं, वह तेरी ही ठहरे; तेरे घराने में जितने शुद्ध होंवे उन्हें खा सकेंगें।
14 इस्त्राएलियों में जो कुछ अर्पण किया जाए वह भी तेरा ही ठहरे।
15 सब प्राणियों में से जितने अपनी अपनी मां के पहिलौठे हों, जिन्हें लोग यहोवा के लिये चढ़ाएं, चाहे मनुष्य के चाहे पशु के पहिलौठे हों, वे सब तेरे ही ठहरें; परन्तु मनुष्यों और अशुद्ध पशुओं के पहिलौठों को दाम ले कर छोड़ देना।
16 और जिन्हें छुड़ाना हो, जब वे महीने भर के हों तब उनके लिये अपने ठहराए हुए मोल के अनुसार, अर्थात पवित्रस्थान के बीस गेरा के शेकेल के हिसाब से पांच शेकेल लेके उन्हें छोड़ना।
17 पर गाय, वा भेड़ी, वा बकरी के पहिलौठे को न छोड़ना; वे तो पवित्र हैं। उनके लोहू को वेदी पर छिड़क देना, और उनकी चरबी को हव्य करके जलाना, जिस से यहोवा के लिये सुखदायक सुगन्ध हो;
18 परन्तु उनका मांस तेरा ठहरे, और हिलाई हुई छाती, और दाहिनी जांघ भी तेरा ही ठहरे।
19 पवित्र वस्तुओं की जितनी भेंटें इस्त्राएली यहोवा को दें, उन सभों को मैं तुझे और तेरे बेटे-बेटियों को सदा का हक करके दे देता हूं: यह तो तेरे और तेरे वंश के लिये यहोवा की सदा के लिये नमक की अटल वाचा है।
20 फिर यहोवा ने हारून से कहा, इस्त्राएलियों के देश में तेरा कोई भाग न होगा, और न उनके बीच तेरा कोई अंश होगा; उनके बीच तेरा भाग और तेरा अंश मैं ही हूं॥
21 फिर मिलापवाले तम्बू की जो सेवा लेवी करते हैं उसके बदले मैं उन को इस्त्राएलियों का सब दशमांश उनका निज भाग कर देता हूं।
22 और भविष्य में इस्त्राएली मिलापवाले तम्बू के समीप न आएं, ऐसा न हो कि उनके सिर पर पाप लगे, और वे मर जाएं।
23 परन्तु लेवी मिलापवाले तम्बू की सेवा किया करें, और उनके अधर्म का भार वे ही उठाया करें; यह तुम्हारी पीढ़ीयों में सदा की विधि ठहरे; और इस्त्राएलियों के बीच उनका कोई निज भाग न होगा।
24 क्योंकि इस्त्राएली जो दशमांश यहोवा को उठाई हुई भेंट करके देंगे, उसे मैं लेवियों को निज भाग करके देता हूं, इसीलिये मैं ने उनके विषय में कहा है, कि इस्त्राएलियों के बीच कोई भाग उन को न मिले।
25 फिर यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा,
26 तू लेवियों से कह, कि जब जब तुम इस्त्राएलियों के हाथ से वह दशमांश लो जिसे यहोवा तुम को तुम्हारा निज भाग करके उन से दिलाता है, तब तब उस में से यहोवा के लिये एक उठाई हुई भेंट करके दशमांश का दशमांश देना।
27 और तुम्हारी उठाई हुई भेंट तुम्हारे हित के लिये ऐसी गिनी जाएगी जैसा खलिहान में का अन्न, वा रसकुण्ड में का दाखरस गिना जाता है।
28 इस रीति तुम भी अपने सब दशमांशों में से, जो इस्त्राएलियों की ओर से पाओगे, यहोवा को एक उठाई हुई भेंट देना; और यहोवा की यह उठाई हुई भेंट हारून याजक को दिया करना।
29 जितने दान तुम पाओ उन में से हर एक का उत्तम से उत्तम भाग, जो पवित्र ठहरा है, सो उसे यहोवा के लिये उठाई हुई भेंट करके पूरी पूरी देना।
30 इसलिये तू लेवियों से कह, कि जब तुम उस में का उत्तम से उत्तम भाग उठा कर दो, तब यह तुम्हारे लिये खलिहान में के अन्न, और रसकुण्ड के रस के तुल्य गिना जाएगा;
31 और उसको तुम अपने घरानों समेत सब स्थानों में खा सकते हो, क्योंकि मिलापवाले तम्बू की जो सेवा तुम करोगे उसका बदला यही ठहरा है।
32 और जब तुम उसका उत्तम से उत्तम भाग उठा कर दो तब उसके कारण तुम को पाप न लगेगा। परन्तु इस्त्राएलियों की पवित्र की हुई वस्तुओं को अपवित्र न करना, ऐसा न हो कि तुम मर जाओ॥
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 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7 And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.