Genesis 23
1 And the life of Sarah is one hundred and twenty-seven years—years of the life of Sarah;
サラ百二十七歳なりき是即ちサラの齡の年なり
2 and Sarah dies in Kirjath-Arba, which [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham goes to mourn for Sarah, and to lament her.
サラ、キリアテアルバにて死り是はカナンの地のヘブロンなりアブラハム至りてサラのために哀み且哭り
3 And Abraham rises up from the presence of his dead, and speaks to the sons of Heth, saying,
斯てアブラハム死人の前より起ち出てヘテの子孫に語りて言けるは
4 “A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.”
我は汝等の中の賓旅なり寄居者なり請ふ汝等の中にて我は墓地を與へて吾が所有となし我をして吾が死人を出し葬ることを得せしめよ
5 And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,
ヘテの子孫アブラハムに應て之に言ふ
6 “Hear us, my lord; a prince of God [are] you in our midst; in the choice of our burying-places bury your dead: none of our burying-places do we withhold from you, from burying your dead.”
我主よ我等に聽たまへ我等の中にありて汝は神の如き君なり我等の墓地の佳者を擇みて汝の死人を葬れ我等の中一人も其墓地を汝にをしみて汝をしてその死人を葬らしめざる者なかるべし
7 And Abraham rises and bows himself to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth,
是に於てアブラハム起ち其地の民ヘテの子孫に對て躬を鞠む
8 and he speaks with them, saying, “If it is your desire to bury my dead from before me, hear me, and meet for me with Ephron, son of Zoar;
而して彼等と語ひて言けるは若我をしてわが死人を出し葬るを得せしむる事汝等の意ならば請ふ我に聽て吾ためにゾハルの子エフロンに求め
9 and he gives to me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which [is] in the extremity of his field; for full money does he give it to me, in your midst, for a possession of a burying-place.”
彼をして其野の極端に有るマクペラの洞穴を我に與へしめよ彼其十分の値を取て之を我に與へ汝等の中にてわが所有なる墓地となさば善し
10 And Ephron is sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answers Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all those entering the gate of his city, saying,
時にエフロン、ヘテの子孫の中に坐しゐたりヘテ人エフロン、ヘテの子孫即ち凡て其邑の門に入る者の聽る前にてアブラハムに應へて言けるは
11 “No, my lord, hear me: the field I have given to you, and the cave that [is] in it, to you I have given it; before the eyes of the sons of my people I have given it to you—bury your dead.”
吾主よ我に聽たまへ其野は我汝に輿ふ又其中の洞穴も我之を汝に輿ふ我わが民なる衆人の前にて之を汝あたふ汝の死人を葬れ
12 And Abraham bows himself before the people of the land,
是に於てアブラハム其地の民の前に躬を鞠たり
13 and speaks to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, “Only—if you would hear me—I have given the money of the field—accept from me, and I bury my dead there.”
而して彼其地の民に聽る前にてエフロンに語りて言けるは汝若之を肯はば請ふ吾に聽け我其野の値を汝に償はん汝之を吾より取れ我わが死人を彼處に葬らん
14 And Ephron answers Abraham, saying to him,
エフロン、アブラハムに答て曰けるは
15 “My lord, hear me: the land—four hundred shekels of silver; between me and you, what [is] it? Bury your dead.”
わが主よ我に聽たまへ彼地は銀四百シケルに當る是は我と汝の間に豈道に足んや然ば汝の死人を葬れ
16 And Abraham listens to Ephron, and Abraham weighs to Ephron the silver which he has spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant.
アブラハ、ムエフロンの言に從ひエフロンがヘテの子孫の聽る前にて言たる所の銀を秤り商買の中の通用銀四百シケルを之に輿へたり
17 And established are the field of Ephron, which [is] in Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, the field and the cave which [is] in it, and all the trees which [are] in the field, which [are] around all its border,
マムレの前なるマクペラに在るエフロンの野は野も其中の洞穴も野の中と其四周の堺にある樹も皆
18 to Abraham by purchase, before the eyes of the sons of Heth, among all entering the gate of his city.
ヘテの子孫の前即ち凡て其邑に入る者の前にてアブラハムの所有と定りぬ
19 And after this Abraham has buried his wife Sarah at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which [is] Hebron), in the land of Canaan;
厥後アブラハム其妻サラをマムレの前なるマクペラの野の洞穴に葬れり是即ちカナンの地のヘブロンなり
20 and established are the field, and the cave which [is] in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth.
斯く其野と其中の洞穴はヘテの子孫之をアブラハムの所有なる墓地と定めたり
