Genesis 43
1 In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.
饑饉その地にはげしかりき
2 And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again and buy us a little food.
茲に彼等エジプトよりもちきたりし穀物を食つくせし時父かられらに再びゆきて少許の糧食を買きたれといひければ
3 Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you.
ユダ父にかたりていひけるは彼人かたく我等をいましめていふ汝らの弟汝らとともにあるにあらざれば汝らはわが面をみるべからずと
4 If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.
汝もし弟をわれらとともに遣さば我等下て汝のために糧食を買ふべし
5 But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother.
されど汝もし彼をつかはさずば我等くだらざるべし其はかの人われらにむかひ汝等の弟なんぢらとともにあるにあらざれば汝ら吾面をみるべからずといひたればなりと
6 Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery in that you told him you had also another brother.
イスラエルいひけるは汝等なにゆゑに汝等に尚弟のあることを彼人につげて我を惡くなすや
7 But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?
彼等いふ其人われらの模樣とわれらの親族を問ただして汝らの父は尚生存へをるや汝等は弟をもつやといひしにより其言の條々にしたがひて彼につげたるなり我等いかでか彼が汝等の弟をつれくだれといふならんとしるをえん
8 And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.
ユダ父イスラエルにいひけるは童子をわれとともに遣はせ我等たちて往ん然らば我儕と汝およびわれらの子女生ることを得て死をまぬかるべし
9 I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.
我彼の身を保はん汝わが手にかれを問へ我もし彼を汝につれかへりて汝のまへに置ずば我永遠に罪をおはん
10 If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.
我儕もし濡滯ことなかりしならば必ずすでにゆきて再びかへりしならん
11 Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.
父イスラエル彼等にいひけるは然ば斯なせ汝等國の名物を器にいれ携へくだりて彼人に禮物とせよ乳香少許、蜜少許、香物、沒藥、胡桃および巴旦杏
12 And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.
又手に一倍の金を取りゆけ汝等の嚢の口に返してありし彼金を再び手にたづさへ行べし恐くは差謬にてありしならん
13 And take also your brother, and go to the man.
且また汝らの弟を挈へ起てふたたたび其人の所にゆけ
14 And may my almighty God make him favourable to you; and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.
ねがはくは全能の神その人のまへにて汝等を矜恤みその人をして汝等の他の兄弟とベニヤミンを放ちかへさしめたまはんことを若われ子に別るべくあらば別れんと
15 So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin: and went down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
是に於てかの人々その禮物を執り一倍の金を手に執りベニヤミンを携へて起てエジプトにくだりヨセフの前に立つ
16 And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded the steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and kill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at noon.
ヨセフ、ベニヤミンの彼らと偕なるを見てその家宰にいひけるはこの人々を家に導き畜を屠て備へよこの人々卓午に我とともに食をなすべければなり
17 He did as he was commanded, and brought the men into the house.
其人ヨセフのいひしごとくなし其人この人々をヨセフの家に導けり
18 And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because of the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are brought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by violence make slaves of us and our asses.
人々ヨセフの家に導かれたるによりて懼れいひけるは初めにわれらの嚢にかへりてありし金の事のために我等はひきいれらる是われらを抑留へて我等にせまり執へて奴隸となし且われらの驢馬を取んとするなりと
19 Wherefore going up to the steward of the house, at the door,
彼等すなはちヨセフの家宰に進みよりて家の入口にて之にかたりて
20 They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us: We came down once before to buy food:
いひけるは主よ我等實に最初くだりて糧食を買たり
21 And when we had bought, and come to the inn, we opened our sacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have now brought again in the same weight.
しかるに我等旅邸に至りて嚢を啓き見るに各人の金その嚢の口にありて其金の量全かりし然ば我等これを手にもちかへれり
22 And we have brought other money besides, to buy what we want: we cannot tell who put it in our bags.
又糧食を買ふ他の金をも手にもちくだる我等の金を嚢にいれたる者は誰なるかわれらは知ざるなり
23 But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the money, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to them.
彼いひけるは汝ら安ぜよ懼るなかれ汝らの神汝らの父の神財寶を汝等の嚢におきて汝らに賜ひしなり汝らの金は我にとどけりと遂にシメオンを彼等の所にたづさへいだせり
24 And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.
かくて其人この人々をヨセフの家に導き水をあたへてその足を濯はしめ又その驢馬に飼草をあたふ
25 But they made ready the presents, against Joseph came at noon: for they had heard that they should eat bread there.
彼等其處にて食をなすなりと聞しかば禮物を調へてヨセフの日午に來るをまつ
26 Then Joseph came into his house, and they offered him the presents holding them in their hands, and they bowed down with their face to the ground.
茲にヨセフ家にかへりしかば彼等その手の禮物を家にもちきたりてヨセフの許にいたり地に伏てこれを拜す
27 But he, courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is the old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet living?
ヨセフかれらの安否をとふていふ汝等の父汝らが初にかたりしその老人は恙なきや尚いきながらへをるや
28 And they answered: Thy servant our father is in health, he is yet living. And bowing themselves they made obeisance to him.
彼等こたへてわれらの父汝の僕は恙なくしてなほ生ながらへをるといひ身をかがめ禮をなす
29 And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin his brother, by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.
ヨセフ目をあげてその母の子なる己の弟ベニヤミンを見ていひけるは是は汝らが初に我にかたりし汝らの若き兄弟なるや又いふわが子よ願はくは神汝をめぐみたまはんことをと
30 And he made haste because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber he wept.
ヨセフその弟のために心焚るがごとくなりしかば急ぎてその泣べきところを尋ね室にいりて其處に泣り
31 And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained himself, and said: Set bread on the table.
而して面をあらひて出で自から抑へて食をそなへよといふ
32 And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him, apart, (for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such a feast profane):
すなはちヨセフはヨセフ彼等は彼等陪食するエジプト人はエジプト人と別々に之を供ふ是はエジプト人ヘブル人と共に食することをえざるによる其事エジプト人の穢はしとするところなればなり
33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much:
かくて彼等ヨセフの前に坐るに長子をばその長たるにしたがひて坐らせ若き者をばその幼少にしたがひてすわらせければその人々駭きあへり
34 Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.
ヨセフ己のまへより皿を彼等に供ふベニヤミンの皿は他の人のよりも五倍おほかりきかれら飮てヨセフとともに樂めり
