Exodus 18
1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel His people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
茲にモーセの外舅なるミデアンの祭司ヱテロ神が凡てモーセのため又その民イスラエルのために爲したまひし事ヱホバがイスラエルをエジプトより導き出したまひし事を聞り
2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
是に於てモーセの外舅ヱテロかの遣り還されてありしモーセの妻チッポラとその二人の子を挈へ來る
3 and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land';
その子の一人の名はゲルシヨムと云ふ是はモーセ我他國に客となりをると言たればなり
4 and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.'
今一人の名はエリエゼルと曰ふ是はかれ吾父の神われを助け我を救ひてパロの劍を免かれしめたまふと言たればなり
5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God;
斯モーセの外舅ヱテロ、モーセの子等と妻をつれて曠野に來りモーセが神の山に陣を張る處にいたる
6 and he said unto Moses: 'I thy father-in-law Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.'
彼すなはちモーセに言けるは汝の外舅なる我ヱテロ汝の妻および之と供なるその二人の子をたづさへて汝に詣ると
7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
モーセ出てその外舅を迎へ禮をなして之に接吻し互に其安否を問て共に天幕に入る
8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
而してモーセ、ヱホバがイスラエルのためにパロとエジプト人とに爲たまひし諸の事と途にて遇し諸の艱難およびヱホバの己等を拯ひたまひし事をその外舅に語りければ
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
ヱテロ、ヱホバがイスラエルをエジプト人の手より救ひいだして之に諸の恩典をたまひし事を喜べり
10 And Jethro said: 'Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
ヱテロすなはち言けるはヱホバは頌べき哉汝等をエジプト人の手とパロの手より救ひいだし民をエジプト人の手の下より拯ひいだせり
11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; yea, for that they dealt proudly against them.'
今我知るヱホバは諸の神よりも大なり彼等傲慢を逞しうして事をなせしがヱホバかれらに勝りと
12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
而してモーセの外舅ヱテロ燔祭と犠牲をヱホバに持きたれりアロンおよびイスラエルの長老等皆きたりてモーセの外舅とともに神の前に食をなす
13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood about Moses from the morning unto the evening.
次の日にいたりてモーセ坐して民を審判きしが民は朝より夕までモーセの傍に立り
14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said: 'What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?'
モーセの外舅モーセの凡て民に爲ところを見て言けるは汝が民になす此事は何なるや何故に汝は一人坐しをりて民朝より夕まで汝の傍にたつや
15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law: 'Because the people come unto me to inquire of God;
モーセその外舅に言けるは民神に問んとて我に來るなり
16 when they have a matter, it cometh unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and His laws.'
彼等事ある時は我に來れば我此と彼とを審判きて神の法度と律法を知しむ
17 And Moses' father-in-law said unto him: 'The thing that thou doest is not good.
モーセの外舅これに言けるは汝のなすところ善らず
18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
汝かならず氣力おとろへん汝も汝とともなる民も然らん此事汝には重に過ぐ汝一人にては之を爲ことあたはざるべし
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee: be thou for the people before God, and bring thou the causes unto God.
今吾言を聽け我なんぢに策を授けん願くは神なんぢとともに在せ汝民のために神の前に居り訴訟を神に陳よ
20 And thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
汝かれらに法度と律法を敎へ彼等の歩むべき道と爲べき事とを彼等に示せ
21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
又汝全體の民の中より賢して神を畏れ眞實を重んじ利を惡むところの人を選み之を民の上に立て千人の司となし百人の司となし五十人の司となし十人の司となすべし
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so shall they make it easier for thee and bear the burden with thee.
而して彼等をして常に民を鞫かしめ大事は凡てこれを汝に陳しめ小事は凡て彼等みづからこれを判かしむべし斯汝の身の煩瑣を省き彼らをして汝とその任を共にせしめよ
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.'
汝もし此事を爲し神また斯汝に命じなば汝はこれに勝ん此民もまた安然にその所に到ることを得べし
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
モーセその外舅の言にしたがひてその凡て言しごとく成り
25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
モーセすなはちイスラエルの中より遍く賢き人を擇みてこれを民の長となし千人の司となし百人の司となし五十人の司となし十人の司となせり
26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
彼等常に民を鞫き難事はこれをモーセに陳べ小事は凡て自らこれを判けり
27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
斯てモーセその外舅を還したればその國に往ぬ
