Deuteronomy 4

1 “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH God of your fathers is giving to you.

今イスラエルよ我が汝らに敎ふる法度と律法を聽てこれを行へ然せば汝らは生ることを得汝らの先祖の神ヱホバの汝らに賜ふ地にいりて之を產業となすを得べし

2 You do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of your God YHWH which I am commanding you.

我が汝らに命ずる言は汝らこれを増しまたは減すべからず我が汝らに命ずる汝らの神ヱホバの命令を守るべし

3 Your eyes are seeing that which YHWH has done in Ba‘al-Peor, for every man who has gone after Ba‘al-Peor, your God YHWH has destroyed him from your midst;

汝らはヱホバがバアルペオルの事によりて行ひたまひし所を目に觀たり即ちバアルペオルに從ひたる人々は汝の神ヱホバことごとく之を汝らの中間より滅し去たまひしが

4 and you who are cleaving to your God YHWH [are] alive today—all of you.

汝らの神ヱホバに附て離れざりし汝等はみな今日までも生ながらへ居るなり

5 See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as my God YHWH has commanded me, to do so in the midst of the land to where you are going in to possess it;

我はわが神ヱホバの我に命じたまひし如くに法度と律法を汝らに敎へ汝らをしてその往て獲ところの地において之を行はしめんとせり

6 and you have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Surely a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.

然ば汝ら之を守り行ふべし然する事は國々の民の目の前において汝らの智慧たり汝らの知識たるなり彼らこの諸の法度を聞て言んこの大なる國人は必ず智慧あり知識ある民なりと

7 For which [is] the great nation that has God [so] near to it, as our God YHWH, in all we have called to Him?

われらの神ヱホバは我らがこれに龥もとむるに常に我らに近く在すなり何の國人か斯のごとく大にして神これに近く在すぞ

8 And which [is] the great nation which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you today?

また何の國人か斯のごとく大にして今日我が汝らの前に立るこの一切の律法の如き正しき法度と律法とを有るぞ

9 Only, take heed to yourself, and watch your soul exceedingly, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all [the] days of your life; and you have made them known to your sons and to your sons’ sons.

汝深く自ら愼み汝の心を善く守れ恐くは汝その目に觀たる事を忘れん恐くは汝らの生存らふる日の中に其等の事汝の心を離れん汝それらの事を汝の子汝の孫に敎へよ

10 [Never forget] the day when you have stood before your God YHWH in Horeb, in YHWH’s saying to me, Assemble the people to Me, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and they teach their sons;

汝がホレブにおいて汝の神ヱホバの前に立る日にヱホバわれに言たまひけらく我ために民を集めよ我これに吾言を聽しめ之をしてその世に存らふる日の間我を畏るることを學ばせまたその子女を敎ふることを爲しめんとすと

11 and you draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire to the heart of the heavens, [with] darkness, cloud, and thick darkness,

是において汝らは前みよりて山の麓に立ちけるが山は火にて燒てその燄は中天に沖り暗くして雲あり黑雲深かりき

12 and YHWH speaks to you out of the midst of the fire; you are hearing a voice of words, but you are seeing no likeness, only a voice;

時にヱホバ火の中より汝らに言ひたまひしが汝らは言詞の聲を聞る而已にて聲の外は何の像をも見ざりし

13 and He declares His covenant to you, which He has commanded you to do, the Ten Commandments, and He writes them on two tablets of stone.

ヱホバすなはち其契約を汝らに述て汝らに之を守れと命じたまへり是すなはち十誡にしてヱホバこれを二枚の石の板に書したまふ

14 And YHWH has commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land to where you are passing over to possess it.

かの時にヱホバ我に命じて汝らに法度と律法を敎へしめたまへり是汝らにその往て獲ところの地にて之を爲しめんとてなりき

15 And you have been very watchful of your souls, for you have not seen any likeness in the day of YHWH’s speaking to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

ホレブにおいてヱホバ火の中より汝らに言ひたまひし日には汝ら何の像をも見ざりしなり然ば汝ら深く自ら愼み

16 lest you do corruptly, and have made for yourselves a carved image, a likeness of any figure: a form of male or female,

道をあやまりて自己のために偶像を刻む勿れ物の像は男の形にもあれ女の形にもあれ凡て造るなかれ

17 a form of any beast which [is] in the earth, a form of any winged bird which flies in the heavens,

即ち地の上にをる諸の獣の像空に飛ぶ諸の鳥の像

18 a form of any creeping thing on the ground, a form of any fish which [is] in the waters below the earth.

地に匍ふもろもろの物の像地の下の水の中に居る諸の魚の像など凡て造る勿れ

19 And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and have seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and have been drawn away, and have bowed yourself to them and served them, which your God YHWH has apportioned to all the peoples under all the heavens.

汝目をあげて天を望み日月星辰など凡て天の衆群を觀誘はれてこれを拝み之に事ふる勿れ是は汝の神ヱホバが一天下の萬國の人々に分ちたまひし者なり

20 And YHWH has taken you, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people, an inheritance, as [at] this day.

ヱホバ汝らを取り汝らを鐵の爐の中すなはちエジプトより導きいだして自己の產業の民となしたまへること今日のごとし

21 And YHWH has showed Himself angry with me because of your words, and swears to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going into the good land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance;

然るにヱホバなんぢらの故によりて我を怒り我はヨルダンを濟りゆくことを得ずまた汝の神ヱホバが汝の產業に賜ひしその美地に入ことを得ずと誓ひたまへり

22 for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, but you are passing over and have possessed this good land.

我はこの地に死ざるを得ず我はヨルダンを濟りゆくことあたはずなんぢらは濟りゆきて之を獲て產業となすことを得ん

23 Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God YHWH which He has made with you, and have made a carved image for yourselves, a likeness of anything [concerning] which your God YHWH has charged you;

汝ら自ら愼み汝らの神ヱホバが汝らに立たまひし契約を忘れて汝の神ヱホバの禁じたまふ偶像など凡て物の像を刻むことを爲なかれ

24 for your God YHWH is a consuming fire—a zealous God.

汝の神ヱホバは燬盡す火嫉妬神なり

25 When you beget sons and sons’ sons, and you have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a carved image, a likeness of anything, and have done evil in the eyes of YHWH to provoke Him to anger,

汝ら子を擧け孫を得てその地に長く居におよびて若し道をあやまりて偶像など凡て物の像を刻み汝の神ヱホバの惡と觀たまふ事をなしてその震怒を惹おこすことあらば

26 I have caused the heavens and the earth to testify against you this day, that you perish utterly quickly from off the land to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it; you do not prolong days on it, but are utterly destroyed;

我今日天と地を呼て證となす汝らはかならずそのヨルダンを濟りゆきて獲たる地より速かに滅亡うせん汝らはその上に汝らの日を永うする能はず必ず滅びうせん

27 and YHWH has scattered you among the peoples, and you have been left few in number among the nations to where YHWH leads you,

ヱホバなんぢらを國々に散したまべしヱホバの汝らを逐やりたまふ國々の中に汝らの遺る者はその數寡なからん

28 and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

其處にて汝らは人の手の作なる見ことも聞ことも食ふことも嗅こともなき木や石の神々に事へん

29 And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

但しまた其處にて汝その神ヱホバを求むるあらんに若し心をつくし精神を盡してこれを求めなば之に遇ん

30 In the distress of yours, when all these things have found you in the latter end of the days, and you have turned back to your God YHWH and have listened to His voice—

後の日にいたりて汝艱難にあひて此もろもろの事の汝に臨まん時に汝もしその神ヱホバにたち歸りてその言にしたがはば

31 for your God YHWH [is] a merciful God—He does not fail you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He has sworn to them.

汝の神ヱホバは慈悲ある神なれば汝を棄ず汝を滅さずまた汝の先祖に誓ひたりし契約を忘れたまはざるべし

32 For ask now of the former days which have been before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even to the [other] end of the heavens, whether there has been as this great thing, or [if anything] has been heard like it.

試に問へ汝の前に過さりし日神が地の上に人を造りたまひし日より已來天の此極より彼極までに曾て斯のごとき大なる事ありしや是のごとき事の聞えたる事ありしや

33 Has a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, you—and live?

曾て人神が火の中より言ふ聲を汝らが聞るごとくに聞て尚生る者ありしや

34 Or has God tried to go in to take a nation for Himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that your God YHWH has done to you in Egypt before your eyes?

汝らの神ヱホバがエジプトにおいて汝らの目の前にて汝らの爲に諸の事を爲たまひし如く曾て試探と徴證と奇蹟と戰爭と強き手と伸たる腕と大なる恐嚇をもて來りこの民をかの民の中より領いださんとせし神ありしや

35 You—you have been shown [it], to know that He, YHWH, [is] God; there is none else besides Him.

汝にこの事を示ししはヱホバはすなはち神にしてその外には有ことなしと汝に知しめんがためなりき

36 He has caused you to hear His voice from the heavens, to instruct you; and on earth He has showed you His great fire, and you have heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

汝を敎へんためにヱホバ天より汝に聲を聞しめ地に於てはまたその大なる火を汝に示したまへり即ち汝はその言の火の中より出るを聞り

37 And because that He has loved your fathers, He also fixes on their seed after them, and brings you out in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt,

ヱホバ汝の先祖等を愛したまひしが故にその後の子孫を選び大なる能力をもて親ら汝をエジプトより導き出したまひ

38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you from your presence, to bring you in to give their land to you [for] an inheritance, as [at] this day.

汝よりも大にして強き國々の民を汝の前より逐はらひ汝をその地に導きいりて之を汝の產業に與へんとしたまふこと今日のごとくなり

39 And you have known today, and have turned [it] back to your heart, that He, YHWH, [is] God in the heavens above and on the earth below—there is none else;

然ば汝今日知て心に思念べし上は天下は地においてヱホバは神にいましその外には神有こと無し

40 and you have kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you today, so that it is well for you, and for your sons after you, and so that you prolong days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you—all the days.”

今日わが汝に命ずるヱホバの法度と命令を守るべし然せば汝と汝の後の子孫祥を得汝の神ヱホバの汝にたまふ地において汝その日を永うすることを得て疆なからん

41 Then Moses separates three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sun-rising,

斯てモーセ、ヨルダンの此旁日の出る方にないて邑三を別てり

42 for the fleeing there of the manslayer who slays his neighbor unknowingly, and he is not hating him before, and he has fled to one of these cities and he has lived:

是素より怨なきに誤りて人を殺せる者をして其處に逃れしむる爲なり其邑の一に逃るる時はその人生命を全うするを得べし

43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, for the Reubenite; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadite; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassite.

即ち一は曠野の内の平野にあるベゼル是はルベン人のためなり一はギレアデのラモテ是はガド人のためなり一はバシヤンのゴラン是はマナセ人のためなり

44 And this [is] the law which Moses has set before the sons of Israel;

モーセがイスラエルの子孫の前に示しし律法は是なり

45 these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses has spoken to the sons of Israel in their coming out of Egypt,

イスラエルの子孫のエジプトより出たる後モーセこの誡命と法度と律法を之に述たり

46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have struck in their coming out of Egypt;

即ちヨルダンの此旁なるアモリ人の王シホンの地にありベテペオルに對する谷に於て之を述たりシホンはヘシボンに住をりしがモーセとイスラエルの子孫エジプトより出きたりし後これを撃ほろぼして

47 and they possess his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan, [toward] the sun-rising,

之が地を獲またバシヤンの王オグの地を獲たり彼ら二人はアモリ人の王にしてヨルダンの此旁日の出る方に居り

48 from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the Brook of Arnon, even to Mount Zion, which [is] Hermon—

その獲たる地はアルノン河の邊なるアロエルよりヘルモンといふシオン山にいたり

49 and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the Sea of the Plain, below the Springs of Pisgah.

ヨルダンの此旁すなはちその東の方なるアラバの全部を括てアラバの鹽海に達しピスガの麓におよべり