Genesis 46
1 And Israel, setting out with all that he had, arrived at the Well of the Oath. And sacrificing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,
イスラエルはその持ち物をことごとく携えて旅立ち、ベエルシバに行って、父イサクの神に犠牲をささげた。
2 he heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: “Jacob, Jacob.” And he answered him, “Behold, here I am.”
この時、神は夜の幻のうちにイスラエルに語って言われた、「ヤコブよ、ヤコブよ」。彼は言った、「ここにいます」。
3 God said to him: “I am the most strong God of your father. Do not be afraid. Descend into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
神は言われた、「わたしは神、あなたの父の神である。エジプトに下るのを恐れてはならない。わたしはあそこであなたを大いなる国民にする。
4 I will descend with you to that place, and I will lead you back from there, returning. Also, Joseph will place his hands over your eyes.
わたしはあなたと一緒にエジプトに下り、また必ずあなたを導き上るであろう。ヨセフが手ずからあなたの目を閉じるであろう」。
5 Then Jacob rose up from the Well of the Oath. And his sons took him, with their little ones and wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry the old man,
そしてヤコブはベエルシバを立った。イスラエルの子らはヤコブを乗せるためにパロの送った車に、父ヤコブと幼な子たちと妻たちを乗せ、
6 along with all that he possessed in the land of Canaan. And he arrived in Egypt with all his offspring:
またその家畜とカナンの地で得た財産を携え、ヤコブとその子孫は皆ともにエジプトへ行った。
7 his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and all his progeny together.
こうしてヤコブはその子と、孫および娘と孫娘などその子孫をみな連れて、エジプトへ行った。
8 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who entered into Egypt, he with his children. The firstborn is Reuben.
イスラエルの子らでエジプトへ行った者の名は次のとおりである。すなわちヤコブとその子らであるが、ヤコブの長子はルベン。
9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu, and Hezron and Carmi.
ルベンの子らはハノク、パル、ヘヅロン、カルミ。
10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad, and Jachin and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
シメオンの子らはエムエル、ヤミン、オハデ、ヤキン、ゾハル及びカナンの女の産んだ子シャウル。
11 The sons of Levi: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari.
レビの子らはゲルション、コハテ、メラリ。
12 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez and Zerah. Now Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And sons were born to Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
ユダの子らはエル、オナン、シラ、ペレヅ、ゼラ。エルとオナンはカナンの地で死んだ。ペレヅの子らはヘヅロンとハムル。
13 The sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvah, and Job and Shimron.
イッサカルの子らはトラ、プワ、ヨブ、シムロン。
14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
ゼブルンの子らはセレデ、エロン、ヤリエル。
15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore, along with his daughter Dinah, in Mesopotamia of Syria. All the souls of her sons and daughters are thirty-three.
これらと娘デナとはレアがパダンアラムでヤコブに産んだ子らである。その子らと娘らは合わせて三十三人。
16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, and Shuni and Ezbon, and Eri and Arodi, and Areli.
ガドの子らはゼポン、ハギ、シュニ、エヅボン、エリ、アロデ、アレリ。
17 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Jesua, and Jessui and Beriah, and also their sister Sarah. The sons of Beria: Heber and Malchiel.
アセルの子らはエムナ、イシワ、イスイ、ベリアおよび妹サラ。ベリアの子らはヘベルとマルキエル。
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. And these she bore to Jacob: sixteen souls.
これらはラバンが娘レアに与えたジルパの子らである。彼女はこれらをヤコブに産んだ。合わせて十六人。
19 The sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.
ヤコブの妻ラケルの子らはヨセフとベニヤミンとである。
20 And sons were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore for him: Manasseh and Ephraim.
エジプトの国でヨセフにマナセとエフライムとが生れた。これはオンの祭司ポテペラの娘アセナテが彼に産んだ者である。
21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher, and Ashbel and Gera, and Naaman and Ehi, and Rosh and Moppim, and Huppim and Ard.
ベニヤミンの子らはベラ、ベケル、アシベル、ゲラ、ナアマン、エヒ、ロシ、ムッピム、ホパム、アルデ。
22 These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all these souls are fourteen.
これらはラケルがヤコブに産んだ子らである。合わせて十四人。
23 The sons of Dan: Hushim.
ダンの子はホシム。
24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni, and Jezer and Shillem.
ナフタリの子らはヤジエル、グニ、エゼル、シレム。
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and these she bore to Jacob: all these souls are seven.
これらはラバンが娘ラケルに与えたビルハの子らである。彼女はこれらをヤコブに産んだ。合わせて七人。
26 All the souls who went into Egypt with Jacob and who went out from his thigh, besides the wives of his sons, were sixty-six.
ヤコブと共にエジプトへ行ったすべての者、すなわち彼の身から出た者はヤコブの子らの妻をのぞいて、合わせて六十六人であった。
27 Now the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who went into Egypt, were seventy.
エジプトでヨセフに生れた子がふたりあった。エジプトへ行ったヤコブの家の者は合わせて七十人であった。
28 Then he sent Judah ahead of himself, to Joseph, in order to report to him, and so that he would meet him in Goshen.
さてヤコブはユダをさきにヨセフにつかわして、ゴセンで会おうと言わせた。そして彼らはゴセンの地へ行った。
29 And when he had arrived there, Joseph harnessed his chariot, and he went up to meet his father at the same place. And seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and, amid embraces, he wept.
ヨセフは車を整えて、父イスラエルを迎えるためにゴセンに上り、父に会い、そのくびを抱き、くびをかかえて久しく泣いた。
30 And the father said to Joseph, “Now I will die happy, because I have seen your face, and I am leaving you behind alive.”
時に、イスラエルはヨセフに言った、「あなたがなお生きていて、わたしはあなたの顔を見たので今は死んでもよい」。
31 And he said to his brothers and to all his father’s house: “I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him: ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
ヨセフは兄弟たちと父の家族とに言った、「わたしは上ってパロに言おう、『カナンの地にいたわたしの兄弟たちと父の家族とがわたしの所へきました。
32 And these honorable men are pastors of sheep, and they have the task of feeding the flock. Their cattle, and herds, and all that they were able to hold, they have brought with them.’
この者らは羊を飼う者、家畜の牧者で、その羊、牛および持ち物をみな携えてきました』。
33 And when he will call you and will say, ‘What is your work?’
もしパロがあなたがたを召して、『あなたがたの職業は何か』と言われたら、
34 You will respond, ‘Your servants are pastors of honor, from our infancy even to the present time, both we and our fathers.’ Now you will say this so that you may be able to live in the land of Goshen, because the Egyptians detest all pastors of sheep.”
『しもべらは幼い時から、ずっと家畜の牧者です。われわれも、われわれの先祖もそうです』と言いなさい。そうすればあなたがたはゴセンの地に住むことができましょう。羊飼はすべて、エジプトびとの忌む者だからです」。
