Exodus 32
1 [(Moses/I) stayed on top of the mountain a long time]. When the people realized that he/I was not returning quickly, they gathered near Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to that man Moses who brought us here out of Egypt. So quickly, make us ([an idol/a statue of a god]) who will lead us!”
民はモーセが山を下ることのおそいのを見て、アロンのもとに集まって彼に言った、「さあ、わたしたちに先立って行く神を、わたしたちのために造ってください。わたしたちをエジプトの国から導きのぼった人、あのモーセはどうなったのかわからないからです」。
2 Aaron replied to them, “All right, [I will do that, but] tell your wives and your sons and your daughters to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me.”
アロンは彼らに言った、「あなたがたの妻、むすこ、娘らの金の耳輪をはずしてわたしに持ってきなさい」。
3 So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
そこで民は皆その金の耳輪をはずしてアロンのもとに持ってきた。
4 He took all those gold earrings and melted them in a fire. He [poured the gold into a mold and] made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, “This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt!”
アロンがこれを彼らの手から受け取り、工具で型を造り、鋳て子牛としたので、彼らは言った、「イスラエルよ、これはあなたをエジプトの国から導きのぼったあなたの神である」。
5 When Aaron saw [what was happening], he built an altar in front of the [statue of the] young bull. Then he announced, “Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!”
アロンはこれを見て、その前に祭壇を築いた。そしてアロンは布告して言った、「あすは主の祭である」。
6 So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then they sat down to eat and drink [wine]. Then they got up and started dancing in a very immoral way.
そこで人々はあくる朝早く起きて燔祭をささげ、酬恩祭を供えた。民は座して食い飲みし、立って戯れた。
7 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go back down from the mountain, because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have [already] (become very depraved/wicked)!
主はモーセに言われた、「急いで下りなさい。あなたがエジプトの国から導きのぼったあなたの民は悪いことをした。
8 They have already (left the road that I showed them/stopped obeying me)! They have made [a statue of] a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. And they are saying, ‘This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!’”
彼らは早くもわたしが命じた道を離れ、自分のために鋳物の子牛を造り、これを拝み、これに犠牲をささげて、『イスラエルよ、これはあなたをエジプトの国から導きのぼったあなたの神である』と言っている」。
9 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “I have seen that these people are very stubborn.
主はまたモーセに言われた、「わたしはこの民を見た。これはかたくなな民である。
10 I am very angry with them, and so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation.”
それで、わたしをとめるな。わたしの怒りは彼らにむかって燃え、彼らを滅ぼしつくすであろう。しかし、わたしはあなたを大いなる国民とするであろう」。
11 But Moses/I pleaded with his/my God, Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, (you should not be very angry with your people!/why are you so angry with your people [RHQ]?) These are the people whom you rescued from Egypt with very great power [MTY, DOU]!
モーセはその神、主をなだめて言った、「主よ、大いなる力と強き手をもって、エジプトの国から導き出されたあなたの民にむかって、なぜあなたの怒りが燃えるのでしょうか。
12 Do not [do anything that would] allow the people of Egypt to say, ‘Their god led them out from our country, but [he did that] only [because he wanted] to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely [RHQ]!’ Stop being so angry! (Change your mind/Do not do what you have told me that you will do)! Do not do to your people this terrible thing [that you have just said that you will do]
どうしてエジプトびとに『彼は悪意をもって彼らを導き出し、彼らを山地で殺し、地の面から断ち滅ぼすのだ』と言わせてよいでしょうか。どうかあなたの激しい怒りをやめ、あなたの民に下そうとされるこの災を思い直し、
13 Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, ‘I will enable you to have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.’ You said to them, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.’”
あなたのしもべアブラハム、イサク、イスラエルに、あなたが御自身をさして誓い、『わたしは天の星のように、あなたがたの子孫を増し、わたしが約束したこの地を皆あなたがたの子孫に与えて、長くこれを所有させるであろう』と彼らに仰せられたことを覚えてください」。
14 So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
それで、主はその民に下すと言われた災について思い直された。
15 Moses/I turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
モーセは身を転じて山を下った。彼の手には、かの二枚のあかしの板があった。板はその両面に文字があった。すなわち、この面にも、かの面にも文字があった。
16 God [himself] had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
その板は神の作、その文字は神の文字であって、板に彫ったものである。
17 Joshua heard the very loud noise of the people shouting. So when he and I got near the camp, Joshua said, “There is a noise in the camp that sounds like [the noise of] a battle!”
ヨシュアは民の呼ばわる声を聞いて、モーセに言った、「宿営の中に戦いの声がします」。
18 But Moses/I replied, [“No], that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated [in a battle] What I hear is the sound of [loud] singing!”
しかし、モーセは言った、「勝どきの声でなく、敗北の叫び声でもない。わたしの聞くのは歌の声である」。
19 As soon as Moses/I came close to the camp and saw the statue of the young bull and saw the people dancing, he/I became extremely angry. He/I threw the stone tablets that he/I was carrying down onto the ground, there at the base of the mountain.
モーセが宿営に近づくと、子牛と踊りとを見たので、彼は怒りに燃え、手からかの板を投げうち、これを山のふもとで砕いた。
20 Then he/I took the statue of the young bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. [When it cooled], he/I ground it into [fine] powder. Then he/I mixed the powder with water and forced the Israeli people to drink it.
また彼らが造った子牛を取って火に焼き、こなごなに砕き、これを水の上にまいて、イスラエルの人々に飲ませた。
21 Then he/I said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, with the result that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?”
モーセはアロンに言った、「この民があなたに何をしたので、あなたは彼らに大いなる罪を犯させたのですか」。
22 Aaron replied, “Please do not be angry with me, sir. You know that these people are very determined to do evil things.
アロンは言った、「わが主よ、激しく怒らないでください。この民の悪いのは、あなたがごぞんじです。
23 They said to me, ‘As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. So make for us an idol that will lead us!’
彼らはわたしに言いました、『わたしたちに先立って行く神を、わたしたちのために造ってください。わたしたちをエジプトの国から導きのぼった人、あのモーセは、どうなったのかわからないからです』。
24 So I said to them, ‘Everyone who is wearing [gold earrings] should take them off.’ So they [took them off and] gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!”
そこでわたしは『だれでも、金を持っている者は、それを取りはずしなさい』と彼らに言いました。彼らがそれをわたしに渡したので、わたしがこれを火に投げ入れると、この子牛が出てきたのです」。
25 Moses/I saw that Aaron had allowed the people to become completely out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israeli people were foolish.
モーセは民がほしいままにふるまったのを見た。アロンは彼らがほしいままにふるまうに任せ、敵の中に物笑いとなったからである。
26 So he/I stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come [closer] to me!” So the descendants of Levi gathered around him/me.
モーセは宿営の門に立って言った、「すべて主につく者はわたしのもとにきなさい」。レビの子たちはみな彼のもとに集まった。
27 Then he/I said to them, “Yahweh, the God of us Israeli people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this entrance to the other one, and kill some of your relatives and your companions and your neighbors.”
そこでモーセは彼らに言った、「イスラエルの神、主はこう言われる、『あなたがたは、おのおの腰につるぎを帯び、宿営の中を門から門へ行き巡って、おのおのその兄弟、その友、その隣人を殺せ』」。
28 The descendants of Levi did what Moses/I told them to do, and they killed 3,000 men on that day.
レビの子たちはモーセの言葉どおりにしたので、その日、民のうち、おおよそ三千人が倒れた。
29 Moses/I said to the descendants of Levi, “Today you have dedicated yourselves to serving Yahweh by (killing/not sparing) [even] your own sons and brothers, and as a result Yahweh will bless you.”
そこで、モーセは言った、「あなたがたは、おのおのその子、その兄弟に逆らって、きょう、主に身をささげた。それで主は、きょう、あなたがたに祝福を与えられるであろう」。
30 The next day, Moses/I said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can [persuade him] to forgive you for sinning [like this].”
あくる日、モーセは民に言った、「あなたがたは大いなる罪を犯した。それで今、わたしは主のもとに上って行く。あなたがたの罪を償うことが、できるかも知れない」。
31 So Moses/I went back up the mountain and said to Yahweh, “I am sorry to admit that these people have committed a terrible sin. They have made for themselves a gold idol and have worshiped it.
モーセは主のもとに帰って、そして言った、「ああ、この民は大いなる罪を犯し、自分のために金の神を造りました。
32 But now I ask you to please forgive them for having sinned. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written [the names of your people].”
今もしあなたが、彼らの罪をゆるされますならば。しかし、もしかなわなければ、どうぞあなたが書きしるされたふみから、わたしの名を消し去ってください」。
33 But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “It is [only] those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
主はモーセに言われた、「すべてわたしに罪を犯した者は、これをわたしのふみから消し去るであろう。
34 Now you go back down and lead the [Israeli] people to the place that I told you about. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I determine, I will punish them for their sin.”
しかし、今あなたは行って、わたしがあなたに告げたところに民を導きなさい。見よ、わたしの使はあなたに先立って行くであろう。ただし刑罰の日に、わたしは彼らの罪を罰するであろう」。
35 [Later] Yahweh caused a plague to strike the people because they had told Aaron to make the gold [statue of a] young bull.
そして主は民を撃たれた。彼らが子牛を造ったからである。それはアロンが造ったのである。
