Genesis 30
1 Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.”
ラケル己がヤコブに子を生ざるを見て其姉を夢みヤコブに言けるは我に子を與へよ然らずば我死んと
2 Jacob, being angry, responded to her, “Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?”
ヤコブ、ラケルにむかひて怒を發して言ふ汝の胎に子をやどらしめざる者は神なり我神に代るをえんや
3 But she said: “I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her.”
ラケルいふ吾婢ビルハを視よ彼の處に入れ彼子を生てわが膝に置ん然ば我もまた彼によりて子をうるにいたらんと
4 And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.
其仕女ビルハを彼にあたへて妻となさしめたりヤコブ即ち彼の處にいる
5 And when her husband had gone in to her, she conceived and bore a son.
ビルハ遂にはらみてヤコブに子を生ければ
6 And Rachel said, “The Lord has judged for me, and he has heeded my voice, giving me a son.” And because of this, she called his name Dan.
ラケルいひけるは神我を監み亦わが聲を聽いれて吾に子をたまへりと是によりて其名をダンと名けたり
7 And conceiving again, Bilhah bore another,
ラケルの仕女ビルハ再び姙みて次の子をヤコブに生ければ
8 about whom Rachel said, “God has compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed.” And she called him Naphtali.
ラケル我神の爭をもて姉と爭ひて勝ぬといひて其名をナフタリと名けたり
9 Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.
茲にレア産ことの止たるを見しかば其仕女ジルパをとりて之をヤコブにあたへて妻となさしむ
10 And she, after having borne a son with difficulty,
レアの仕女ジルパ、ヤコブに子を産ければ
11 said: “Happiness!” And for this reason, she called his name Gad.
レア福來れりといひて其名をガドと名けたり
12 Likewise, Zilpah bore another.
レアの仕女ジルパ次子をヤコブに生ければ
13 And Leah said, “This one is for my happiness. Indeed, women will call me blessed.” Because of this, she called him Asher.
レアいふ我は幸なり女等我を幸なる者となさんと其名をアセルとなづけたり
14 Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, “Give me a portion of your son’s mandrakes.”
茲に麥苅の日にルベン出ゆきて野にて戀茄を獲これを母レアの許にもちきたりければラケル、レアにいひけるは請ふ我に汝の子の戀茄をあたへよ
15 She responded, “Does it seem like such a small matter to you, that you have usurped from me my husband, unless you will also take my son’s mandrakes?” Rachel said, “He will sleep with you this night because of your son’s mandrakes.”
レア彼にいひけるは汝のわが夫を奪しは微き事ならんや然るに汝またわが子の戀茄をも奪んとするやラケルいふ然ば汝の子の戀茄のために夫是夜汝と寢べし
16 And when Jacob returned from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and she said, “You will enter to me, because I have hired you for the reward of my son’s mandrakes.” And he slept with her that night.
晩におよびてヤコブ野より來りければレア之をいでむかへて言けるは我誠にわが子の戀茄をもて汝を雇ひたれば汝我の所にいらざるべからずヤコブ即ち夜彼といねたり
17 And God heard her prayers. And she conceived and bore a fifth son.
神レアに聽たまひければ彼妊みて第五の子をヤコブに生り
18 And she said, “God has given a reward to me, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” And she called his name Issachar.
レアいひけるは我わが仕女を夫に與へたれば神我に其値をたまへりと其名をイツサカルと名けたり
19 Conceiving again, Leah bore a sixth son.
レア復妊みて第六の子をヤコブに生り
20 And she said: “God has endowed me with a good dowry. And now, at this turn, my husband will be with me, because I have conceived six sons for him.” And therefore she called his name Zebulun.
レアいひけるは神我に嘉賚を貺ふ我六人の男子を生たれば夫今より我と偕にすまんと其名をゼブルンとなづけたり
21 After him, she bore a daughter, named Dinah.
其後彼女子を生み其名をデナと名けたり
22 The Lord, likewise remembering Rachel, heeded her and opened her womb.
茲に神ラケルを念ひ神彼に聽て其胎を開きたまひければ
23 And she conceived and bore a son, saying, “God has taken away my reproach.”
彼妊みて男子を生て曰ふ神わが恥辱を洒ぎたまへりと
24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, “The Lord has added to me another son.”
乃ち其名をヨセフと名けて言ふヱホバ又他の子を我に加へたまはん
25 But when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: “Release me, so that I may return to my native country and to my land.
茲にラケルのヨセフを生むに及びてヤコブ、ラバンに言けるは我を歸して故郷に我國に往しめよ
26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served you, so that I may depart. You know the servitude with which I have served you.”
わが汝に事て得たる所の妻子を我に與へて我を去しめよわが汝になしたる役事は汝之を知るなり
27 Laban said to him: “May I find grace in your sight. I have learned by experience that God has blessed me because of you.
ラバン彼にいひけるは若なんぢの意にかなはばねがはくは留れ我ヱホバが汝のために我を祝みしを卜ひ得たり
28 Choose your wages, which I will give you.”
又言ふ汝の望む値をのべよ我之を與ふべし
29 But he responded: “You know how I have served you, and how great your possession became in my hands.
ヤコブ彼にいひけるは汝は如何にわが汝に事へしか如何に汝の家畜を牧しかを知る
30 You had little before I came to you, and now you have achieved riches. And the Lord has blessed you since my arrival. It is just, therefore, that at some time I also should provide for my own house.”
わが來れる前に汝の有たる者は鮮少なりしが増て遂に群をなすに至る吾來りてよりヱホバ汝を祝みたまへり然ども我は何時吾家を成にいたらんや
31 And Laban said, “What shall I give to you?” But he said, “I want nothing. But if you will do what I ask, I will feed and guard your sheep again.
彼言ふ我何を汝に與へんかヤコブいひけるは汝何者をも我に與ふるに及ばず汝もし此事を我になさば我復汝の群を牧守らん
32 Go around through all your flocks and separate all the sheep of variegated or spotted fleece; and whatever will be darkened or blemished or variegated, as much among the sheep as among the goats, will be my wages.
即ち我今日徧く汝の群をゆきめぐりて其中より凡て斑なる者點なる者を移し綿羊の中の凡て黒き者を移し山羊の中の點なる者と斑なる者を移さん是わが値なるべし
33 And my justice will answer on my behalf tomorrow, when the time of settlement arrives before you. And all that is not variegated or blemished or darkened, as much among the sheep as among the goats, these will prove me to be a thief.”
後に汝來りてわが傭値をしらぶる時わが義我にかはりて應をなすべし若わが所に山羊の斑ならざる者點ならざる者あり綿羊の黒からざる者あらば皆盜る者となすべし
34 And Laban said, “I hold favor for this request.”
ラバンいふ汝の言の如くなさんことを願ふ
35 And on that day he separated the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams with variegations or with blemishes. But every one of the flock which was of one color, that is, of white or of black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
是に於て彼其日牡山羊の斑入なる者斑點なる者を移し凡て牝山羊の斑駮なる者斑點なる者都て身に白色ある者を移し又綿羊の中の凡て黒き者を移して其子等の手に付せり
36 And he established a distance of three days journey between himself and his son-in-law, who pastured the remainder of his flock.
而して彼己とヤコブの間に三日程の隔をたてたりヤコブはラバンの餘の群を牧ふ
37 Then Jacob, taking green branches of poplar, and almond, and sycamore trees, debarked them in part. And when the bark was pulled off, in the parts that were stripped, there appeared whiteness, yet the parts that were left whole, remained green. And so, in this way the color was made variegated.
茲にヤコブ楊柳と楓と桑の青枝を執り皮を剥て白紋理を成り枝の白き所をあらはし
38 And he placed them in the troughs, where the water was poured out, so that when the flocks had arrived to drink, they would have the branches before their eyes, and in their sight they might conceive.
其皮をはぎたる枝を群の來りて飮むところの水槽と水鉢に立て群に向はしめ群をして水のみの來る時に孕ましむ
39 And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color.
群すなはち枝の前に孕みて斑入の者斑駮なる者斑點なる者を産しかば
40 And Jacob divided the flock, and he set the branches in the troughs before the eyes of the rams. Now whatever was white or black belonged to Laban, but, in truth, the others belonged to Jacob, for the flocks were dispersed among one another.
ヤコブ其羔羊を區分ちラバンの群の面を其群の斑入なる者と黒き者に對はしめたりしが己の群をば一所に置てラバンの群の中にいれざりき
41 Therefore, when the first to arrive were climbing on the ewes, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams and the sheep, so that they might conceive while they were gazing upon them.
又家畜の壯健き者孕みたる時はヤコブ水槽の中にて其家畜の目の前に彼枝を置き枝の傍において孕ましむ
42 Yet when the late arrivals and the last to conceive were let in, he did not place these. And so those that arrived late became Laban’s, and those that arrived first became Jacob’s.
然ど家畜の羸弱かる時は之を置ず是に因て羸弱者はラバンのとなり壯健者はヤコブのとなれり
43 And the man was enriched beyond limit, and he had many flocks, women servants and men servants, camels and donkeys.
是に於て其人大に富饒になりて多の家畜と婢僕および駱駝驢馬を有にいたれり
