< Deuteronomy 15 >
1 At the end of every seven years thou shall make a release.
七年の終に至るごとに汝放釋を行ふべし
2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it from his neighbor and his brother, because Jehovah's release has been proclaimed.
その放釋の例は是のごとし凡てその鄰に貸ことを爲しその債主は之を放釋べしその鄰またはその兄弟にこれを督促べからず是はヱホバの放釋と稱へらるればなり
3 From a foreigner thou may exact it, but whatever of thine is with thy brother, thy hand shall release.
異國の人には汝これを督促ことを得されど汝の兄弟に貸たる物は汝の手よりこれを放釋べし
4 However there shall be no poor with thee (for Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it),
斯せば汝らの中間に貧者なからん其は汝の神ヱホバその汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふ地において大に汝を祝福たまふべければなり
5 if only thou diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.
只汝もし謹みて汝の神ヱホバの言に聽したがひ我が今日なんぢに命ずるこの誡命を盡く守り行ふに於ては是のごとくなるべし
6 For Jehovah thy God will bless thee as he promised thee, and thou shall lend to many nations, but thou shall not borrow, and thou shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.
汝の神ヱホバ汝に言しごとく汝を祝福たまふべければ汝は衆多の國人に貸ことを得べし然ど借こと有じまた汝は衆多の國人を治めん然ど彼らは汝を治むることあらじ
7 If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,
汝の神ヱホバの汝に賜ふ地において若汝の兄弟の貧き人汝の門の中にをらばその貧しき兄弟にむかひて汝の心を剛愎にする勿れまた汝の手を閉る勿れ
8 but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.
かならず汝の手をこれに開き必ずその要むる物をこれに貸あたへてこれが乏しきを補ふべし
9 Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to Jehovah against thee, and it be sin to thee.
汝愼め心に惡き念を起し第七年放釋の年近づけりと言て汝の貧き兄弟に目をかけざる勿れ汝もし斯之に何をも與へずしてその人これがために汝をヱホバに訴へなば汝罪を獲ん
10 Thou shall surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou give to him, because for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou put thy hand to.
汝かならず之に與ふることを爲べしまた之に與ふる時は心に惜むこと勿れ其は此事のために汝の神ヱホバ汝の諸の事業と汝の手の諸の働作とに於て汝を祝福たまふべければなり
11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
貧き者は何時までも國にたゆること無るべければ我汝に命じて言ふ汝かならず汝の國の中なる汝の兄弟の困難者と貧乏者とに汝の手を開くべし
12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee.
汝の兄弟たるヘブルの男またはヘブルの女汝の許に賣れたらんに若六年なんぢに事へたらば第七年に汝これを放ちて去しむべし
13 And when thou let him go free from thee, thou shall not let him go empty.
汝これを放ちて去しむる時は空手にて去しむべからず
14 Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress. As Jehovah thy God has blessed thee thou shall give to him.
汝の群と禾場と搾場の中より贈物を取て之が肩に負すべし即ち汝の神ヱホバの汝を祝福て賜ふところの物をこれに與ふべし
15 And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee. Therefore I command thee this thing today.
汝記憶べし汝はエジプトの國に奴隸たりしが汝の神ヱホバ汝を贖ひ出したまへり是故に我今日この事を汝に命ず
16 And it shall be, if he says to thee, I will not go out from thee, because he loves thee and thy house, because he is well with thee,
その人もし汝と汝の家を愛し汝と偕にをるを善として汝にむかひ我汝を離れて去を好まずと言ば
17 then thou shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And also to thy maid-servant thou shall do likewise.
汝錐を取て彼の耳を戸に刺とほすべし然せば彼は永く汝の僕たるべし汝の婢にもまた是のごとくすべし
18 It shall not seem hard to thee when thou let him go free from thee, for he has been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years. And Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou do.
汝これを放ちて去しむるを難き事と見るべからず其は彼が六年汝に事へて働きしは工價を取る傭人の二倍に當ればなり汝斯なさば汝の神ヱホバ汝が凡て爲ところの事に於て汝をめぐみたまふべし
19 All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shall sanctify to Jehovah thy God. Thou shall do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.
汝の牛羊の產る初子は皆これを聖別て汝の神ヱホバに歸せしむべし汝の牛の初子をもちゐて何の工作をも爲べからず又汝の羊の初子の毛を剪べからず
20 Thou shall eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.
汝の神ヱホバの選びたまへる處にてヱホバの前に汝と汝の家族年々にこれを食ふべし
21 And if it has any blemish, as lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, thou shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God.
然どその畜もし疵ある者すなはち跛足盲目なるなど凡て惡き疵ある者なる時は汝の神ヱホバにこれを宰りて献ぐべからず
22 Thou shall eat it within thy gates. The unclean man and the clean man alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
汝の門の内にこれを食ふべし汚れたる者も潔き者も均くこれを食ふを得ること牡鹿と羚羊のごとし
23 Only thou shall not eat the blood of it. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
但しその血はこれを食ふべからず水のごとくにこれを地に灌ぐべし