Genesis 24
1 By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
アブラハム年邁て老たりヱホバ萬の事に於てアブラハムを祝みたまへり
2 So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
茲にアブラハム其凡の所有を宰る其家の年邁なる僕に言けるは請ふ爾の手を吾髀の下に置よ
3 and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
我爾をして天の神地の神ヱホバを指て誓はしめん即ち汝わが偕に居むカナン人の女の中より吾子に妻を娶るなかれ
4 but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
汝わが故國に往き吾親族に到りて吾子イサクのために妻を娶れ
5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
僕彼に言けるは倘女我に從ひて此地に來ることを好まざる事あらん時は我爾の子を彼汝が出來りし地に導き歸るべきか
6 Abraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there.
アブラハム彼に曰けるは汝愼みて吾子を彼處に携かへるなかれ
7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
天の神ヱホバ我を導きて吾父の家とわが親族の地を離れしめ我に語り我に誓ひて汝の子孫に此地を與へんと言たまひし者其使を遣して汝に先たしめたまはん汝彼處より我子に妻を娶るべし
8 And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
若女汝に從ひ來る事を好ざる時は汝吾此誓を解るべし唯我子を彼處に携へかへるなかれ
9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
是に於て僕手を其主人アブラハムの髀の下に置て此事について彼に誓へり
10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
斯て僕其主人の駱駝の中より十頭の駱駝を取りて出たてり即ち其主人の諸の佳物を手にとりて起てメソポタミアに往きナホルの邑に至り
11 As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
其駱駝を邑の外にて井の傍に跪伏しめたり其時は黄昏にて婦女等の水汲にいづる時なりき
12 “O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
斯して彼言けるは吾主人アブラハムの神ヱホバよ願くは今日我にその者を逢しめわが主人アブラハムに恩惠を施し給へ
13 Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
我この水井の傍に立ち邑の人の女等水を汲に出づ
14 Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
我童女に向ひて請ふ汝の瓶をかたむけて我に飮しめよと言んに彼答へて飮め我また汝の駱駝にも飮しめんと言ば彼は汝が僕イサクの爲に定め給ひし者なるべし然れば我汝の吾主人に恩惠を施し給ふを知らん
15 Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
彼語ふことを終るまへに視よリベカ瓶を肩にのせて出きたる彼はアブラハムの兄弟ナホルの妻ミルカの子ベトエルに生れたる者なり
16 Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
其童女は觀るに甚だ美しく且處女にして未だ人に適しことあらず彼井に下り其瓶に水を盈て上りしかば
17 So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
僕はせゆきて之にあひ請ふ我をして汝の瓶より少許の水を飮しめよといひけるに
18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
彼主よ飮たまへといひて乃ち急ぎ其瓶を手におろして之にのましめたりしが
19 After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
飮せをはりて言ふ汝の駱駝のためにも其飮をはるまで水を汲て飽しめん
20 And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.
急ぎて其瓶を水鉢にあけ又汲んとて井にはせゆき其諸の駱駝のために汲みたり
21 Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.
其人之を見つめヱホバが其途に幸福をくだしたまふや否やをしらんとして默し居たり
22 And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
茲に駱駝飮をはりしかば其人重半シケルの金の鼻環一箇と重十シケルの金の手釧二箇をとりて
23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
言けるは汝は誰の女なるや請ふ我に告よ汝の父の家に我等が宿る隙地ありや
24 She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
女彼に曰けるは我はミルカがナホルに生みたる子ベトエルの女なり
25 Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
又彼にいひけるは家には藁も飼草も多くあり且宿る隙地もあり
26 Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,
是に於て其人伏てヱホバを拜み
27 saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
言けるは吾主人アブラハムの神ヱホバは讃美べきかなわが主人に慈惠と眞實とを缺きたまはず我途にありしにヱホバ我を吾主人の兄弟の家にみちびきたまへり
28 The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
茲に童女走行て其母の家に此等の事を告たり
29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
リベカに一人の兄あり其名をラバンといふラバンはせいで井にゆきて其人の許につく
30 As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
すなはち彼鼻環および其妹の手の手釧を見又其妹リベカが其人斯我に語りといふを聞て其人の所に到り見るに井の側にて駱駝の傍にたちゐたれば
31 “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
之に言けるは汝ヱホバに祝るる者よ請ふ入れ奚ぞ外にたつや我家を備へ且駱駝のために所をそなへたり
32 So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.
是に於て其人家にいりぬラバン乃ち其駱駝の負を釋き藁と飼草を駱駝にあたへ又水をあたへて其人の足と其從者の足をあらはしめ
33 Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
斯して彼の前に食をそなへたるに彼言ふ我はわが事をのぶるまでは食はじとラバン語れといひければ
34 “I am Abraham’s servant,” he replied.
彼言ふわれはアブラハムの僕なり
35 “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
ヱホバ大にわが主人をめぐみたまひて大なる者とならしめ又羊牛金銀僕婢駱駝驢馬をこれにたまへり
36 My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
わが主人の妻サラ年老てのちわが主人に男子をうみければ主人其所有を悉く之に輿ふ
37 My master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,
わが主人我を誓せて言ふ吾すめるカナンの地の人の女子の中よりわが子に妻を娶るなかれ
38 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
汝わが父の家にゆきわが親族にいたりわが子のために妻をめとれと
39 Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
我わが主人にいひけるは倘女我にしたがひて來ずば如何
40 And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
彼我にいひけるは吾事ふるところのヱホバ其使者を汝とともに遣はして汝の途に幸福を降したまはん爾わが親族わが父の家より吾子に妻をめとるべし
41 And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
汝わが親族に至れる時はわが誓を解さるべし若彼等汝にあたへずば汝はわが誓をゆるさるべしと
42 So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
我今日井に至りて謂けらくわが主人アブラハムの神ヱホバねがはくはわがゆく途に幸福を降したまへ
43 Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
我はこの井水の傍に立つ水を汲にいづる處女あらん時我彼にむかひて請ふ汝の瓶より少許の水を我にのましめよと言んに
44 and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.
若我に答へて汝飮め我亦汝の駱駝のためにも汲んと言ば是ヱホバがわが主人の子のために定たまひし女なるべし
45 And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
我心の中に語ふことを終るまへにリベカ其瓶を肩にのせて出來り井にくだりて水を汲みたるにより我彼に請ふ我にのましめよと言ければ
46 She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
彼急ぎ其瓶を肩よりおろしていひけるは飮めまた汝の駱駝にものましめんと是に於て我飮しが彼また駱駝にものましめたり
47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
我彼に問て汝は誰の女なるやといひければミルカがナホルに生たる子ベトエルの女なりといふ是に於て我其鼻に環をつけ其手に手釧をつけたり
48 Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.
而して我伏てヱホバを拜み吾主人アブラハムの神ヱホバを頌美たりヱホバ我を正き途に導きてわが主人の兄弟の女を其子のために娶しめんとしたまへばなり
49 Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”
されば汝等若わが主人にむかひて慈恵と眞誠をもて事をなさんと思はば我に告よ然ざるも亦我に告よ然ば我右か左におもむくをえん
50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
ラバンとベトエル答て言けるは此事はヱホバより出す我等汝に善惡を言ふあたはず
51 Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”
視よリベカ汝の前にをる携へてゆき彼をしてヱホバの言たまひし如く汝の主人の子の妻とならしめよ
52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
アブラハムの僕彼等の言を聞て地に伏てヱホバを拜めり
53 Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.
是に於て僕銀の飾品金の飾品および衣服をとりいだしてリベカに輿へ亦其兄と母に寶物をあたへたり
54 Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
是に於て彼および其從者等食飮して宿りしが朝起たる時彼言我をして吾主人に還らしめよ
55 But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
リベカの兄と母言けるは童女を數日の間少くも十日我等と偕にをらしめよしかるのち彼ゆくべし
56 But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”
彼人之に言ヱホバ吾途に福祉をくだしたまひたるなれば我を阻むるなかれ我を歸してわが主人に往しめよ
57 So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
彼等いひけるは童女をよびて其言を問んと
58 They called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.
即ちリベカを呼て之に言けるは汝此人と共に往や彼言ふ往ん
59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
是に於て彼等妹リベカと其乳媼およびアブラハムの僕と其從者を遣り去しめたり
60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
即ち彼等リベカを祝して之にいひけるはわれらの妹よ汝千萬の人の母となれ汝の子孫をして其仇の門を獲しめよ
61 Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
是に於てリベカ起て其童女等とともに駱駝にのりて其人にしたがひ往く僕乃ちリベカを導きてさりぬ
62 Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
茲にイサク、ラハイロイの井の路より來れり南の國に住居たればなり
63 Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
しかしてイサク黄昏に野に出て默想をなしたりしが目を擧て見しに駱駝の來るあり
64 And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
リベカ目をあげてイサクを見駱駝をおりて
65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
僕にいひけるは野をあゆみて我等にむかひ來る者は何人なるぞ僕わが主人なりといひければリベカ覆衣をとりて身をおほへり
66 Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.
茲に僕其凡てなしたる事をイサクに告ぐ
67 And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
イサク、リベカを其母サラの天幕に携至りリベカを娶りて其妻となしてこれを愛したりイサクは母にわかれて後茲に慰籍を得たり
