Joshua 2
1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
茲にヌンの子ヨシユア、シツテムより潜かに二人の間者を發し之にいひけるは往てかの地およびヱリコを窺ひ探れ乃ち彼ら往て妓婦ラハブと名づくる者の家に入て其處に寝けるが
2 And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”
或人ヱリコの王に告て觀よイスラエルの子孫の者この地を探らんとて今宵ここに入きたれりといふ
3 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”
是に於てヱリコの王ラハブに言つかはしけるは汝にきたりて汝の家に入し人を曳いだせ彼らは此全國を探らんとて來れるなり
4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
婦人かのふたりの人を將て之を匿し而して言ふ實にその人々はわが許に來れり然れども我その何處よりか知ざりしが
5 At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”
黄昏どき門を閉るころに出されり我その人々の何處へ往しかを知ず急ぎその後を追へ然ば之に追及んと
6 (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
その實は婦すでにかれらを領て屋葢に升り屋葢の上に列べおきたる麻のなかに之をかくししなり
7 So the king’s men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.
かくてその人々彼らの後を追ひヨルダンの路をゆきて渡場に赴むけり、かれらの後を追ふ者出るや直に門を閉しぬ
8 Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof
二人のもの未だ寝ずラハブ屋背に上りて彼らのもとに來り
9 and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.
これに言けるはヱホバこの地を汝らに賜へり我らは甚く汝らを懼る此地の民盡く汝らの前に消亡ん我この事を知る
10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
其は汝らがエジプトより出來し時ヱホバなんぢらの前にて紅海の水を乾たまひし事および汝らがヨルダンの彼旁にありしアモリ人の二箇の王シホンとオグとになししこと即ちことごとく之を滅ぼしたりし事を我ら聞たればなり
11 When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
我ら之を聞や心怯けなんぢらの故によりて人の魂きえうせたり汝らの神ヱホバは上の天にも下の地にも神たるなり
12 Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
然ば請ふ我すでに汝らに恩を施したれば汝らも今ヱホバを指て我父の家に恩をほどこさんことを誓ひて我に眞實の記號を與へよ
13 that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”
又わが父母兄弟姉妹および凡て彼らに屬る者をながらへしめ我らの生命を拯ひて死を免かれしめんことを誓へよ
14 “Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”
二人のものこれに言けるは汝ら若しわれらの此事を洩すことなくば我らの生命汝らに代りて死ん又ヱホバわれらに此地を與へたまふ時には我らなんぢに恩を施し眞實を盡さん
15 Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
是においてラハブ繩をもて彼らを窓より縋おろせり是は其家邑の石垣の上にありてかれ石垣の上に住しによる
16 “Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”
ラハブかれらに言けるは恐らくは追者なんぢに遇ん汝ら山に往て三日が間そこに隱れをり追者の還るを待て後去ゆくべし
17 The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear
二人のものかれに言けるは汝が我らに誓しし此誓につきては我ら罪を獲じ
18 unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.
我らが此地に打いらん時は汝我らを縋おろしたりし窓に此一條の赤き紐を結つけ且つ汝の父母兄弟および汝の父の家の眷族を悉く汝の家に聚むべし
19 If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
凡て汝の家の門を出て街衢に來る者はその血自身の首に歸すべし我らは罪なし然どもし汝とともに家にをる者に手をくはふることをせばその血は我らの首に歸すべし
20 And if you report our mission, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”
將た汝もし我らのこの事を洩さば汝が我らに誓せたる誓に我らあづかることなし
21 “Let it be as you say,” she replied, and she sent them away. And when they had gone, she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
ラハブいひけるはなんぢらの言のごとくすべしと斯てかれらを出し去しめて赤き紐を窓に結べり
22 So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.
かれら往て山にいり追來るもののかへるを待て三日が間そこに居れりおひ來れるもの徧ねく彼らを途に尋ねしかども終に獲ざりき
23 Then the two men started back, came down from the hill country, and crossed the river. So they came to Joshua son of Nun and reported all that had happened to them.
而してかの二箇の人は山を下り河を濟りて歸りヌンの子ヨシユアに詣りて其有し事等をつぶさに陳ぶ
24 “The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands,” they said to Joshua. “Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us.”
またヨシユアにいふ誠にヱホバこの國をことごとく我らの手に付したまへりこの國の民は皆我らの前に消うせんと
