उत्पत्ति 2
1 यसरी पृथ्वी, आकाश र तिनीहरुभित्र प्रत्येक वस्तुको सृष्टि पूरा भयो।
2 परमेश्वरले आफूले गर्दै गरेको काम पूरा गर्नुभयो। यसर्थ, सातौं दिनमा परमेश्वरले आफ्ना कामहरुबाट विश्राम लिनुभयो।
3 परमेश्वरले सातौं दिनलाई आशीर्वाद दिनुभयो र एउटा पवित्र दिन बनाउनु भयो, परमेश्वरले यस दिनलाई एक विशेष दिन मान्नुभयो कारण त्यस दिन उहाँले संसार सृष्टि गर्ने कार्यबाट विश्राम लिनु भयो।
4 आकाश र पृथ्वीको इतिहास यही हो। परमेश्वरले पृथ्वी र आकाश सृष्टि गर्दा भएका घटनाहरुको कुरा यही नै हो।
5 पृथ्वीमा उद्भिदहरुको उंम्रनु अघिका कुरा यही हुन्। भूमिहरुमा केही पनि उम्रेको थिएन, किनभने परमप्रभुले पृथ्वीमा यतिञ्जेल पानीसम्म वर्षाउँनु भएको थिएन। त्यहाँ उद्भिदहरु हेरचाह गर्नलाई कुनै व्यक्ति पनि थिएन।
6 पृथ्वीबाट पानी निस्कियो अनि मैदानमा फैलियो।
7 तब त्यसपछि परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले भूँईबाट माटो उठाउनु भयो अनि मानिस सृष्टि गर्नु भयो। परमप्रभुले मानिसको नाकबाट सास हालिदिनु भयो र यसलाई जिउँदो बनाउनु भयो।
8 परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले अदन नाउँ भएको ठाउँमा पूर्वपट्टि एउटा बगैंचा बनाउनु भयो र उहाँले सृष्टि गर्नु भएको मानिसलाई त्यहाँ राख्नु भयो।
9 परमेश्वरले भूमिबाट राम्रा-राम्रा रुखहरु अनि खान योग्य फलहरु लाग्ने रुखहरु उमार्नु भयो। उहाँले बगैंचाको बीचमा जीवनको रुख अनि असल र खराबको ज्ञान दिन योग्य रुख पनि रोप्नु भयो।
10 बगैंचा भिजाउनलाई अदनबाट एउटा नदी बग्यो र पछि त्यो नदी चारवटा शाखाहरुमा विभाजन भयो।
11 ती शाखाहरुमध्ये पहिलो शाखा नदीको नाउँ पीशोन हो। यो त्यही नदी हो जुन हवीलाको सम्पूर्ण भूमिमा बग्छ र त्यहाँ सुन पाइन्छ।
12 यस प्रदेशको सुन राम्रो दर्जाको छ। धूप गोमेद र पत्थर पनि पाइन्छन्।
13 दोस्रो नदीको नाउँ गीहोन हो र कूश देशको सम्पूर्ण भूमिमा बग्ने नदी पनि यही हो।
14 तेस्रो शाखा नदीको नाउँ हिद्देकेल हो र यो नदी अश्शूरको पूर्वतिर बग्छ। चौथो शाखा नदीको नाउँ यूफ्रेटिस हो।
15 तब परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले मानिसलाई लानु भयो अनि बगैंचा खन-जोत अनि हेरचाह गर्न उसलाई राख्नु भयो।
16 परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले त्यस मानिसलाई आज्ञा दिनु भयो। परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले भन्नुभयो, “तिमीले कुनै चिन्ता बिना यस बगैंचाको कुनै पनि रुखबाट फलहरु खान सक्छौ।”
17 तर तिमीले त्यस रुखको कुनै फल खानु हुँदैन जसले असल र खराबको ज्ञान दिन्छ, किनभने जुन दिन तिमी त्यस रुखको फल खान्छौ निश्चयनै त्यस दिन तिमी आफै मर्नेछौ।”
18 तब फेरि परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले भन्नुभयो, “मानिसको लागि एक्लो बस्नु राम्रो होइन। म उसको लागि एकजना सहयोगी बनाउनेछु जो उ जस्तै नै हुनेछे।”
19 यसर्थ परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले जमीनका सबै पशुहरु र आकाशमा चरा-चुरूङ्गीहरु सृष्टि गरी तिनीहरुको के के नाउँ राख्दा रहेछन् भनी मानिसकहाँ पठाउनु भयो। अनि मानिसले तिनीहरुलाई जे भने तिनीहरुको त्यही नाउँ रह्यो।
20 अनि मानिसले पाल्तू गाई वस्तु, आकाशमा उड्ने चरा-चुरुङ्गीहरु र जङ्गली जनावरहरुको नाउँ राख्यो। तर मानिसको निम्ति कुनै सहयोगी साथी पाएन।
21 त्यसपछि परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले मानिसलाई गहिरो निंद्रामा सुताउनु भयो। जब त्यो मानिस गहिरो निंद्रामा पर्यो उहाँले एउटा करङ्ग निकालेको ठाउँमा मासुले पुरिदिनुभयो।
22 त्यस मानिसबाट निकालिएको करङ्गबाट उहाँले एउटी स्त्री मानिस सृष्टि गरी तिनलाई त्यस मानिस कहाँ ल्याउनु भयो।
23 तब त्यस मानिसले भने, “आखिरमा म जस्तै अर्को एउटा व्यक्ति उसको हड्डी मेरो हड्डी बाट आयो अनि उसको शरीर मेरो शरीरबाट आयो। किनभने तिनी एउटा मानिसबाट निकालिएकी हुनाले म तिनलाई स्त्री मानिस भन्नेछु।”
24 यसकारण, एकजना मानिसले आफ्नो आमा-बाबुलाई छोडेर आफ्नी पत्नीसित सम्बन्ध राख्छ। यसरी दुइजना मानिसहरु एउटै बनिन्छन्।
25 त्यो मानिस र तिनकी पत्नी नाङ्गै भएता पनि तिनीहरु लाज मान्दैन थिए।
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
2 Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
8 So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
12 Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.
14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.
20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.
23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.