Exodus 23
1 “Do not tell to others (false rumors/untrue reports) about other people. Do not help someone who is guilty by (testifying falsely/lying) [about what happened].
汝虚妄の風説を言ふらすべからず惡き人と手をあはせて人を誣る證人となるべからず
2 Do not join a group of people who are planning to do something evil. Do not testify the way the [crowd wants you to], if that will prevent [the judge from deciding the case] justly/fairly.
汝衆の人にしたがひて惡をなすべからず訴訟において答をなすに方りて衆の人にしたがひて道を曲べからず
3 When a poor person is on trial, do not [testify in] his favor [just] because he is poor [and you feel sorry for him].
汝また貧き人の訴訟を曲て庇くべからず
4 If you see someone’s bull or donkey when it is wandering away [loose], take it back to [its owner, even if the owner] is your enemy.
汝もし汝の敵の牛あるひは驢馬の迷ひ去に遭ばかならずこれを牽てその人に歸すべし
5 If you see someone’s donkey that has fallen down [because of its heavy load], help the owner to get the donkey up again, [even if] he is someone who hates you. Do not just walk away [without helping him].
汝もし汝を惡む者の驢馬のその負の下に仆れ臥すを見ば愼みてこれを遺さるべからず必ずこれを助けてその負を釋べし
6 Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial [as] fairly [as you decide the cases of other people].
汝貧き者の訴訟ある時にその判決を曲べからず
7 Do not accuse people falsely. Do not decide that innocent and righteous [DOU] people should be executed, because I will (punish/not forgive) people who do such an evil thing.
虚假の事に遠かれ無辜者と義者とはこれを殺すなかれ我は惡き者を義とすることあらざるなり
8 Do not accept money that is a bribe, because officials who accept bribes are not able to [MTY] decide what is right to do, and they do not allow innocent people to be treated fairly.
汝賄賂を受べからず賄賂は人の目を暗まし義者の言を曲しむるなり
9 Do not mistreat foreigners [who live among you]. You know [how people often treat] foreigners, because the Egyptians [did not treat you well when] you were foreigners there.
他國の人を虐ぐべからず汝等はエジプトの國にをる時は他國の人にてありたれば他國の人の心を知なり
10 Plant [seeds] in your ground and gather the harvest for six years.
汝六年の間汝の地に種播きその實を穫いるべし
11 But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. [If things grow without your planting seeds], allow poor people [to harvest and] eat the crops. If there are still crops (left over/that they do not harvest), allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.
但し第七年にはこれを息ませて耕さずにおくべし而して汝の民の貧き者に食ふことを得せしめよ其餘れる者は野の獣これを食はん汝の葡萄園も橄欖園も斯のごとくなすべし
12 [You may] work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must rest [and not work]. And on the seventh day you must allow your work animals and your slaves and the foreigners [who live among you] also [to rest and] be refreshed.
汝六日の間汝の業をなし七日に息むべし斯汝の牛および驢馬を息ませ汝の婢の子および他國の人をして息をつかしめよ
13 Make certain that you obey everything that I have commanded [you to do]. Do not pray to [MTY] other gods. Do not even mention their names.”
わが汝に言し事に凡て心を用ひよ他の神々の名を稱ふべからずまた之を汝の口より聞えしめざれ
14 “Every year you must celebrate three festivals to [honor] me.
汝年に三度わがために節筵を守るべし
15 [The first one] is the Festival of Bread That Has No Yeast. Celebrate it in the month [that is named] Abib. That is the month in which you left Egypt. Celebrate it in the way that I commanded you. And always bring [LIT] an offering when you come to worship me.
汝無酵パンの節禮をまもるべし即ちわが汝に命ぜしごとくアビブの月の定の時において七日の間酵いれぬパンを食ふべし其はその月に汝エジプトより出たればなり徒手にてわが前に出る者あるべからず
16 The second one is the Festival of Harvesting. During that festival you must offer to me the first parts/harvest of your crops that grow from the seeds that you planted. The third one is the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. That will be after you finish harvesting your grain and grapes and fruit.
また穡時の節筵を守るべし是すなはち汝が勞苦て田野に播る者の初の實を祝ふなり又収蔵の節筵を守るべし是すなはち汝の勞苦によりて成る者を年の終に田野より収蔵る者なり
17 Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.
汝の男たる者は皆年に三次主ヱホバの前に出べし
18 When you sacrifice an animal [and offer it] to me, you must not offer bread that has been baked with yeast. [When you] offer sacrifices, [burn] the fat [from the animals on that same day]. Do not allow any fat to remain until the next morning.
汝わが犠牲の血を酵いれしパンとともに献ぐべからず又わが節筵の脂を翌朝まで殘しおくべからず
19 Each year, when you harvest your crops, bring to the place where you worship me, Yahweh God, the first part of what you harvest. When you kill a (young animal/kid [or lamb or calf)], do not [prepare to eat it by] boiling it in its mother’s milk.”
汝の地に初に結べる實の初を汝の神ヱホバの室に持きたるべし汝山羊羔をその母の乳にて煮べからず
20 “Note this: I am going to send an angel ahead of you, to guard you as you travel and to bring you safely to the place that I have prepared [for you]. Pay attention to what he says and obey him. Do not rebel against him, because he will have my authority [MTY] and he will (punish/not forgive) [LIT] you if you rebel against him.
視よ我天の使をかはして汝に先たせ途にて汝を守らせ汝をわが備へし處に導かしめん
汝等その前に愼みをりその言にしたがへ之を怒らするなかれ彼なんぢらの咎を赦さざるべしわが名かれの中にあればなり
22 But if you pay attention to what he says and if you do all that I tell you [to do], I will fight strongly [DOU] against all of your enemies.
汝もし彼が言にしたがひ凡てわが言ところを爲ば我なんぢの敵の敵となり汝の仇の仇となるべし
23 My angel will go ahead of you, and will take you to where the Amor and Heth and Periz and Canaan and Hiv and Jebus people-groups live, and I will completely get rid of them.
わが使汝にさきだちゆきて汝をアモリ人ヘテ人ペリジ人カナン人ヒビ人およびヱブス人に導きたらん我かれらを絶べし
24 Do not bow down before their gods/idols or worship them. And do not do the things [that they think that their gods want] them to do. Completely destroy their gods/idols, and smash to pieces their sacred stones.
汝かれらの神を拝むべからずこれに奉事べからず彼らの作にならふなかれ汝其等を悉く毀ちその偶像を打摧くべし
25 You must worship me, Yahweh God. [If you do that], I will bless your (OR, bless [you by giving you]) food and water, and I will protect you from becoming sick.
汝等の神ヱホバに事へよ然ばヱホバ汝らのパンと水を祝し汝らの中より疾病を除きたまはん
26 No women in your land will have (miscarriages/babies that will die after being born prematurely), and no women will be unable to become pregnant. And I will enable you to live a long time.
汝の國の中には流產する者なく妊ざる者なかるべし我汝の日の數を盈さん
27 I will cause the people who oppose you to become very afraid of me. I will cause the people whom you fight against to become very confused. And then I will cause them to turn around and run away from you.
我わが畏懼をなんぢの前に遣し汝が至るところの民をことごとく敗り汝の諸の敵をして汝に後を見せしめん
28 I will cause your enemies to become terrified. And I will expel the Hiv, Canaan, and Heth people-groups from your land.
吾黄蜂を汝の先につかはさん是ヒビ人カナン人およびヘテ人を汝の前より逐はらふべし
29 I will not expel [all of] them in less than one year. If I did that, your land would become deserted, and there would be very many wild animals ([that would attack you/you would not be able to control]).
我かれらを一年の中には汝の前より逐はらはじ恐くは土地荒れ野の獣増て汝を害せん
30 I will expel those people-groups slowly, a few at a time, until the number of your people increases and you are able to live everywhere in the land.
我漸々にかれらを汝の前より逐はらはん汝らは遂に増てその地を獲にいたらん
31 I will cause the borders of your land to extend from the (Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba) [in the southeast] to the Mediterranean Sea [in the northwest], and from the [Sinai] Desert [in the southwest] to the [Euphrates] River [in the northeast of the country]. I will enable you [MTY] to expel the people who live there, so that you will expel them as you occupy more of the country.
我なんぢの境をさだめて紅海よりペリシテ人の海にいたらせ曠野より河にいたらしめん我この地に住る者を汝の手に付さん汝かれらを汝の前より逐はらふべし
32 You must not make any agreement/treaty with those people or with their gods.
汝かれらおよび彼らの神と何の契約をもなすべからず
33 Do not allow [those people] to live in your land, in order that they do not cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, [you will not be able to escape from worshiping them and sinning against me, just like someone caught] in a trap [is unable to escape] [MET].”
彼らは汝の國に住べきにあらず恐くは彼ら汝をして我に罪を犯さしめん汝もし彼等の神に事なばその事かならず汝の機檻となるべきなり
