Genesis 24
1 Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.
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 And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
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 take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
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 that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there 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 And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again 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 And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.
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 God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
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 will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; 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 And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.
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 And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
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 And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get 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 And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy 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 See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get 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 the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.
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 And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.
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 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.
其童女は觀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 And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.
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 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she 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 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.
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 after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the 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 And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.
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 when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;
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 And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?
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 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.
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 And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is room for you.
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 And with bent head the man gave worship to the Lord;
是に於て其人伏てヱホバを拜み
27 And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.
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 So the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's house
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 came out quickly to the man at the water-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 And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-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らにて駱駝の傍にたちゐたれば
31 And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, 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 Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet.
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 And meat was put before him, but he said, I will not take food till I have made my business clear to you. And they said, Do so.
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 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
彼言ふわれはアブラハムの僕なり
35 The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.
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 And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.
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與ふ
37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
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 go to my father's house and to my relations for 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 And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come 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 said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and 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 you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your 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 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,
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 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,
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 Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord 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 even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, 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 And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your 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 And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.
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 And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter 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 And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.
されば汝等若わが主人にむかひて慈惠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 Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.
ラバンとベトエル答て言けるは此事はヱホバより出づ我等汝に善惡を言ふあたはず
51 See, here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the Lord has said.
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 And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to 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 took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.
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與へ亦其兄と母に寶物をあたへたり
54 Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back 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 her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then 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 And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back 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 And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.
彼等いひけるは童女をよびて其言を問んと
58 And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.
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 and her servant with 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 gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
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 So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.
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 come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
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 And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.
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, looking up, 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 said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.
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 gave Isaac the story of all he had done.
茲に僕其凡てなしたる事をイサクに告ぐ
67 And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father'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
