Genesis 49
1 And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times.
ヤコブはその子らを呼んで言った、「集まりなさい。後の日に、あなたがたの上に起ることを、告げましょう、
2 Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father.
ヤコブの子らよ、集まって聞け。父イスラエルのことばを聞け。
3 Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:
ルベンよ、あなたはわが長子、わが勢い、わが力のはじめ、威光のすぐれた者、権力のすぐれた者。
4 But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.
しかし、沸き立つ水のようだから、もはや、すぐれた者ではあり得ない。あなたは父の床に上って汚した。ああ、あなたはわが寝床に上った。
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.
シメオンとレビとは兄弟。彼らのつるぎは暴虐の武器。
6 Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.
わが魂よ、彼らの会議に臨むな。わが栄えよ、彼らのつどいに連なるな。彼らは怒りに任せて人を殺し、ほしいままに雄牛の足の筋を切った。
7 A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
彼らの怒りは、激しいゆえにのろわれ、彼らの憤りは、はなはだしいゆえにのろわれる。わたしは彼らをヤコブのうちに分け、イスラエルのうちに散らそう。
8 To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you.
ユダよ、兄弟たちはあなたをほめる。あなたの手は敵のくびを押え、父の子らはあなたの前に身をかがめるであろう。
9 Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?
ユダは、ししの子。わが子よ、あなたは獲物をもって上って来る。彼は雄じしのようにうずくまり、雌じしのように身を伏せる。だれがこれを起すことができよう。
10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
つえはユダを離れず、立法者のつえはその足の間を離れることなく、シロの来る時までに及ぶであろう。もろもろの民は彼に従う。
11 Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes:
彼はそのろばの子をぶどうの木につなぎ、その雌ろばの子を良きぶどうの木につなぐ。彼はその衣服をぶどう酒で洗い、その着物をぶどうの汁で洗うであろう。
12 His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
その目はぶどう酒によって赤く、その歯は乳によって白い。
13 The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon.
ゼブルンは海べに住み、舟の泊まる港となって、その境はシドンに及ぶであろう。
14 Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:
イッサカルはたくましいろば、彼は羊のおりの間に伏している。
15 And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.
彼は定住の地を見て良しとし、その国を見て楽しとした。彼はその肩を下げてにない、奴隷となって追い使われる。
16 Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
ダンはおのれの民をさばくであろう、イスラエルのほかの部族のように。
17 May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.
ダンは道のかたわらのへび、道のほとりのまむし。馬のかかとをかんで、乗る者をうしろに落すであろう。
18 I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.
主よ、わたしはあなたの救を待ち望む。
19 Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight.
ガドには略奪者が迫る。しかし彼はかえって敵のかかとに迫るであろう。
20 Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.
アセルはその食物がゆたかで、王の美味をいだすであろう。
21 Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.
ナフタリは放たれた雌じか、彼は美しい子じかを生むであろう。
22 Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;
ヨセフは実を結ぶ若木、泉のほとりの実を結ぶ若木。その枝は、かきねを越えるであろう。
23 He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:
射る者は彼を激しく攻め、彼を射、彼をいたく悩ました。
24 But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:
しかし彼の弓はなお強く、彼の腕は素早い。これはヤコブの全能者の手により、イスラエルの岩なる牧者の名により、
25 Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:
あなたを助ける父の神により、また上なる天の祝福、下に横たわる淵の祝福、乳ぶさと胎の祝福をもって、あなたを恵まれる全能者による。
26 Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.
あなたの父の祝福は永遠の山の祝福にまさり、永久の丘の賜物にまさる。これらの祝福はヨセフのかしらに帰し、その兄弟たちの君たる者の頭の頂に帰する。
27 Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.
ベニヤミンはかき裂くおおかみ、朝にその獲物を食らい、夕にその分捕物を分けるであろう」。
28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.
すべてこれらはイスラエルの十二の部族である。そしてこれは彼らの父が彼らに語り、彼らを祝福したもので、彼は祝福すべきところに従って、彼らおのおのを祝福した。
29 And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
彼はまた彼らに命じて言った、「わたしはわが民に加えられようとしている。あなたがたはヘテびとエフロンの畑にあるほら穴に、わたしの先祖たちと共にわたしを葬ってください。
30 In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.
そのほら穴はカナンの地のマムレの東にあるマクペラの畑にあり、アブラハムがヘテびとエフロンから畑と共に買い取り、所有の墓地としたもので、
31 There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.
そこにアブラハムと妻サラとが葬られ、イサクと妻リベカもそこに葬られたが、わたしはまたそこにレアを葬った。
32 In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.
あの畑とその中にあるほら穴とはヘテの人々から買ったものです」。
33 And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.
こうしてヤコブは子らに命じ終って、足を床におさめ、息絶えて、その民に加えられた。
