Judges 21
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying: 'There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.'
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 And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
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 And they said: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in 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 And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-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 And the children of Israel said: 'Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto the LORD?' For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah, saying: 'He shall surely be put to death.'
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 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said: 'There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
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 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?'
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 And they said: 'What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah?' And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to 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 when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
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 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying: 'Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
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 And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by 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 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is 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 And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them.
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 And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead; and yet so they sufficed them not.
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 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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 Then the elders of the congregation said: 'How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?'
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 And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
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 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters.' For the children of Israel had sworn, saying: 'Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.'
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 And they said: 'Behold, there is the feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the 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 And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying: 'Go and lie in wait 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 and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go 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 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to strive with us, that we will say unto them: Grant them graciously unto us; because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle; neither did ye give them unto them, that ye should now be guilty.'
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 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off; and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt 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 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
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 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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
