Genesis 48
1 Sometime after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is sick.” So Joseph went to see him, taking with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
是等の事の後汝の父病にかかるとヨセフに告る者ありければヨセフ二人の子マナセとエフライムをともなひて至る
2 When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” he gathered his strength and sat up in bed.
人ヤコブに告て汝の子ヨセフなんぢの許にきたるといひければイスラエル強て床に坐す
3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in Canaan, and he blessed me there.
しかしてヤコブ、ヨセフにいひけるは昔に全能の神カナンの地のルズにて我にあらはれて我を祝し
4 He told me, ‘Listen! I will make you prosperous and make your descendants so numerous that you will become the ancestor of many nations, and I will give this land to your descendants to own forever.’
我にいひたまひけらく我なんぢをして多く子をえせしめ汝をふやし汝を衆多の民となさん我この地を汝の後の子孫にあたへて永久の所有となさしめんと
5 I am counting as mine your two sons Ephraim and Manasseh who were born here in Egypt before I arrived, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
わがエジプトにきたりて汝に就まへにエジプトにて汝に生れたる二人の子エフライムとマナセ是等はわが子となるべしルベンとシメオンのごとく是等はわが子とならん
6 Any other children you have after them will be yours, and will share their inheritance within the land of their older brothers.
是等の後になんぢが得たる子は汝のものとすべし又その產業はその兄弟の名をもて稱らるべし
7 I'm doing this because tragically for me when I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in Canaan some distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (also known as Bethlehem).
我事をいはんに我昔パダンより來れる時ラケル我にしたがひをりて途にてカナンの地に死り其處はエフラタまで尚途の隔あるところなりわれ彼處にて彼をエフラタの途にはうむれり(エフラタはすなはちベテレヘムなり)
8 Israel saw Jacob's sons and said, “These are your sons then?”
斯てイスラエル、ヨセフの子等を見て是等は誰なるやといひければ
9 “Yes, these are the sons God gave me here,” Joseph told his father. “Bring them over here so I can bless them,” he said.
ヨセフ父にいふ是は神の此にて我にたまひし子等なりと父すなはちいふ請ふ彼らを我所につれきたれ我これを祝せんと
10 Israel's eyesight was failing because of his age and he couldn't see well, so Joseph brought them close to his father, and he kissed and hugged them.
イスラエルの目は年壽のために眯て見るをえざりしがヨセフかれらをその許につれきたりければ之に接吻してこれを抱けり
11 Israel said to Joseph, “I never thought I'd see your face again, and now God has even let me see your children!”
しかしてイスラエル、ヨセフにいひけるは我なんぢの面を見るあらんとは思はざりしに視よ神なんぢの子をもわれにしめしたまふと
12 Joseph took his sons from between Israel's knees, and bowed low with his face to the ground.
ヨセフかれらをその膝の間よりいだし地に俯て拜せり
13 Then Joseph placed Ephraim on his right so he would be on Israel's left, and Manasseh on his left so he would be on Israel's right, and then brought them over to Israel.
しかしてヨセフ、エフライムを右の手に執てヤコブに左の手にむかはしめマナセを左の手に執てヤコブの右の手にむかはしめ二人をみちびきてかれに就ければ
14 But when Israel reached out his hands, he crossed them over and placed his right hand on Ephraim the younger son, and placed his left on Manasseh, the firstborn.
イスラエル右の手をのべて季子エフライムの頭に按き左の手をのべてマナセの頭におけりマナセは長子なれども故にかくその手をおけるなり
15 He blessed Joseph, saying, “May the God my grandfather Abraham and my father worshiped—the God who has taken care of me like a shepherd throughout my life until now,
斯してヨセフを祝していふわが父アブラハム、イサクの事へし神わが生れてより今日まで我をやしなひたまひし神
16 the Angel who has saved me from all kinds of trouble—may he bless these boys. May my name and the names of my grandfather Abraham and father Isaac continue through them, and may they have many descendants that spread throughout the earth.”
我をして諸の災禍を贖はしめたまひし天使ねがはくは是童子等を祝たまへねがはくは是等の者わが名とわが父アブラハム、イサクの名をもて稱られんことをねがはくは是等地の中に繁殖がるにいたれ
17 Joseph was unhappy when saw his father had put his right hand on Ephraim, so he took his father's hand to try and move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
ヨセフ父が右の手をエフライムの頭に按るを見てよろこばず父の手をあげて之をエフライムの頭よりマナセの頭にうつさんとす
18 “Not like that, father, this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head,” Joseph told him.
ヨセフすなはち父にいひけるは然にあらず父よ是長子なれば右の手をその頭に按たまへ
19 But his father refused, saying, “I know what I'm doing. Manasseh will also become an important people, but his younger brother will be greater than him, and his descendants will become a large nation.”
父こばみていひけるは我知るわが子よわれしる彼も一の民となり彼も大なる者とならん然れどもその弟は彼よりも大なる者となりてその子孫は多衆の國民となるべしと
20 So Israel blessed them that day and said: “In the future the people of Israel will use your names to give a blessing, saying, ‘May God bless you like he did Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In saying this he placed Ephraim before Manasseh.
此日彼等を祝していふイスラエル汝を指て人を祝し願くは神汝をしてエフライムのごとくマナセのごとくならしめたまへといふにいたらんとすなはちエフライムをマナセの先にたてたり
21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I'm going to die soon, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
イスラエルまたヨセフにいひけるは視よわれは死んされど神なんぢらとともにいまして汝等を先祖等の國にみちびきかへりたまふべし
22 I'm also giving you something in addition to what I'm giving your brothers—piece of land on the mountain slope of Shechem that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
且われ一の分をなんぢの兄弟よりもおほく汝にあたふ是わが刀と弓を以てアモリ人の手より取たる者なり
