Judges 21
1 The men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, “None of us will allow our daughters to marry a Benjamite.”
イスラエルの人々曾てミヅパにて誓ひ曰ひけるは我等の中一人もその女をベニヤミンの妻にあたふる者あるべからずと
2 The Israelites went to Bethel and sat there before God until the evening, crying loudly in distress.
茲に民ベテルに至り彼處にて夕暮まで神の前に坐り聲を放ちて痛く哭き
3 “Lord, God of Israel, why has this happened to Israel?” they asked. “Today one of our tribes is missing from Israel.”
言けるはイスラエルの神ヱホバよなんぞイスラエルに斯ること起り今日イスラエルに一の支派の缺るにいたりしやと
4 The next day they got up early, built an altar, and brought burnt offerings and friendship offerings.
而して翌日民蚤に起て其處に壇を築き燔祭と酬恩祭をささげたり
5 “Which of all the tribes of Israel didn't attend the assembly we held before the Lord?” they asked. For they had sworn a sacred oath that anyone who did not come before the Lord at Mizpah would without exception be executed.
茲にイスラエルの子孫いひけるはイスラエルの支派の中に誰か會衆とともに上りてヱホバにいたらざる者あらんと其は彼らミヅパに來りてヱホバにいたらざる者の事につきて大なる誓をたてて其人をばかならず死しむべしと言たればなり
6 The Israelites felt sorry for their brother Benjamin, saying, “Today one tribe has been hacked off from Israel!
イスラエルの子孫すなはち其兄弟ベニヤミンの事を憫然におもひて言ふ今日イスラエルに一の支派絶ゆ
7 What shall we do about wives for those who are left, since we have sworn an oath before the Lord that we will not allow any of our daughters to marry them?”
我等ヱホバをさして我らの女をかれらの妻にあたへじと誓ひたれば彼の遺る者等に妻をめとらしめんには如何にすべきや
8 Then they asked, “Which one of all the tribes of Israel didn't attend the assembly we held before the Lord at Mizpah?” They found out that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly,
又言ふイスラエルの支派の中孰の者かミヅパにのぼりてヱホバにいたらざると而して視るにヤベシギレアデよりは一人も陣營にきたり集會に臨める者なし
9 for once they had done a head count, there was nobody there from Jabesh-gilead.
即ち民をかぞふるにヤベシギレアデの居民は一人も其處にをらざりき
10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand of their best warriors there. They gave them orders, saying, “Go and kill the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with your swords, even the women and children.
是に於て會衆勇士一萬二千を彼處に遣し之に命じて言ふ往て刃をもてヤベシギレアデの居民を撃て婦女兒女をも餘すなかれ
11 This is what you have to do: Destroy every male and every woman who has had sex with a man.”
汝ら斯おこなふべし即ち汝等男人および男と寢たる婦人をば悉く滅し盡すべしと
12 They managed to find among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred virgins who had not had sex with a man. They took them to the camp in Shiloh, in the land of Canaan.
彼等ヤベシギレアデの居民の中にて四百人の若き處女を獲たり是は未だ男と寢て男しりしことあらざる者なり彼らすなはち之をシロの陣營に曳きたる是はカナンの地にあり
13 Then the whole assembly sent a message to the Benjamites at Pomegranate Rock to tell them, “Peace!”
斯て全會衆人をやりてリンモンの磐にをるベニヤミン人と語はしめ和睦をこれに宣べしめたれば
14 So the men of Benjamin went back home, and gave to them the four hundred women from Jabesh-gilead who had been spared as wives. However, there wasn't enough for all of them.
ベニヤミンすなはち其時に歸りきたれり是において彼らヤベシギレアデの婦人の中より生しおきたるところの女子を之にあたへけるが尚足ざりき
15 The people felt sorry for the Benjamites because the Lord had made this empty hole among the Israelite tribes.
ヱホバ、イスラエルの支派の中に缺を生ぜしめ給ひしに因て民ベニヤミンの事を憫然におもへり
16 The elders of the assembly asked, “What shall we do to supply the remaining wives because all the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”
會衆の長老等いひけるはベニヤミンの婦女絶たれば彼の遺れる者等に妻をめとらせんには如何すべきや
17 They added, “There have to be heirs for the Benjamite survivors—an Israelite tribe of Israel can't be wiped out.
又言けるはベニヤミンの中の逃れたる者等に産業あらしめん然らばイスラエルに一の支派の消ることなかるべし
18 But we can't let them have our daughters as wives, since we as the people of Israel swore a sacred oath, saying, ‘Anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite is cursed!’”
然ながら我等は我等の女子を彼らの妻にあたふべからず其はイスラエルの子孫誓をなしベニヤミンに妻を與ふる者は詛はれんと言たればなりと
19 Then they said, “Look! Every year there's the Lord's festival in Shiloh. It's held north of Bethel, and east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, south of Lebonah.”
而して言ふ歳々シロにヱホバの祭ありと其處はベテルの北にあたりてベテルよりシケムにのぼるところの大路の東レバナの南にあり
20 So they ordered the Benjamites, “Go and hide in the vineyards.
是に於てかれらベニヤミンの子孫に命じて言ふ汝らゆきて葡萄園に伏して窺ひ
21 Keep a lookout, and when you see the young women from Shiloh come out to perform their dances, run out from the vineyards, and each of you abduct a wife for yourself and go back home to the land of Benjamin.
若シロの女等舞をどらんと出きたらば葡萄園より出でシロの女の中より各人妻を執てベニヤミンの地に往け
22 If their fathers or brothers come complaining to us, we'll tell them, ‘Please do us a favor, because we couldn't find enough wives for them in the war. And it's not as if you're guilty of breaking the oath since you didn't give them in marriage.”
若その父あるひは兄弟來りて我らに愬へなば我らこれに言ふべし請ふ幸に彼らを我らに取せよ我等戰爭の時に皆ことごとくその妻をとりしにあらざればなり汝等今かれらに與へしにあらざれば汝等は罪なしと
23 The Benjaminites did as they were ordered. Each man grabbed one of the women dancers up to the total needed and carried her off to be his wife. Then they went back to their own land, where they rebuilt their towns and lived in them.
ベニヤミンの子孫すなはちかく行なひその踊れる者等を執へてその中より己の數にしたがひて妻を取り往てその地にかへり邑々を建なほして其處に住り
24 Then the Israelites left and went home to their tribes and families, each one going to the land they owned.
斯てイスラエルの子孫その時に其處を去て各人その支派に往きその族にいたれり即ち其處より出て各人その地にいたりぬ
25 At that time Israel didn't have a king—everyone did what they themselves thought was the right thing to do.
當時はイスラエルに王なかりしかば各人その目に善と見るところを爲り
