Genesis 44
1 When his brothers were ready to return home, Joseph said to the man who was in charge of things in his house, “Fill the sacks of those men with as much grain as they can carry [on their donkeys]. And put in the top of each man’s sack the silver that he paid for the grain.
茲にヨセフその家宰に命じていふこの人々の嚢にその負うるほど糧食を充せ各人の金をその嚢の口に置れ
2 Then put my silver cup in the top of the youngest brother’s sack, along with the silver that he paid for the grain.” So the servant did what Joseph told him to do.
またわが杯すなはち銀の杯を彼の少き者の嚢の口に置てその穀物の金子とともにあらしめよと彼がヨセフがいひし言のごとくなせり
3 The next morning at dawn the men started on the way home with their donkeys.
かくて夜のあくるにおよびてその人々と驢馬をかへしけるが
4 When they had not gone far from the city, Joseph said to the servant in charge of things in his house, “Pursue those men immediately. When you catch up to them, say to them, ‘We did good things for you! Why have you paid us back by doing something bad to us?
かれら城邑をいでてなほ程とほからぬにヨセフ家宰にいひけるは起てかの人々の後を追ひおひつきし時之にいふべし汝らなんぞ惡をもて善にむくゆるや
5 [You have stolen the cup] that my master drinks from [RHQ]! It is the cup that he uses to find out things that nobody knows! What you did was very wicked!’”
其はわが主がもちひて飮み又用ひて常に卜ふ者にあらずや汝らかくなすは惡しと
6 The servant [left immediately and] when he caught up with them, he told them what Joseph had told him to say.
是に於て家宰かれらにおひつきてこの言をかれらにいひければ
7 But one of them replied to him, “Sir, why do you say such things? We are your servants, and we would never do anything like that!
かれら之にいふ主なにゆゑに是事をいひたまふや僕等きはめてこの事をなさず
8 We even brought back to you from Canaan land the silver that we found inside the tops of our sacks! So (we certainly would not steal silver or gold from your master’s house!/Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?) [RHQ]
視よ我らの嚢の口にありし金はカナンの地より汝の所にもちかへれり然ば我等いかで汝の主の家より金銀をぬすまんや
9 If you discover that any of us has that cup, you can execute him, and the rest of us will become your slaves.”
僕等の中誰の手に見あたるも其者は死べし我等またわが主の奴隸となるべし
10 The man replied, “Okay, I will do what you say. But the one who has the cup will not be executed. Instead, he will become my slave, and the rest of you may return home.”
彼いひけるはさらば汝らの言のごとくせん其の見あたりし者はわが奴隸となるべし汝等は咎なしと
11 Each of the men quickly lowered his sack down from the donkey to the ground and opened it.
是において彼等急ぎて各その嚢を地におろし各その嚢をひらきしかば
12 Then the servant started to search for the cup in each sack. He started with the oldest brother’s sack and ended with the youngest one’s sack. And he found the cup in Benjamin’s sack and showed it to them.
彼すなはち索し長者よりはじめて少者にをはるに杯はベニヤミンの嚢にありき
13 The brothers tore their clothes [because they were so dismayed]. They loaded the sacks on the donkeys again and returned to the city.
斯有しかば彼等その衣を裂きおのおのその驢馬に荷を負せて邑にかへる
14 When Judah and his [older and younger] brothers entered Joseph’s house, Joseph was still there. The servant told Joseph what had happened. Then the brothers threw themselves down on the ground in front of Joseph.
しかしてユダとその兄弟等ヨセフの家にいたるにヨセフなほ其處にをりしかばその前に地に伏す
15 He said to them, “Why did you do this? Do you not know that a man like me can find out things that nobody knows?” [RHQ]
ヨセフかれらにいひけるは汝等がなしたるこの事は何ぞや我のごとき人は善く卜ひうる者なるをしらざるや
16 Judah replied, “Sir, what can we say? How can we prove that we (are innocent/did not steal the cup)? God has (paid us back/punished us) for the sins [we committed many years ago]. So now we will become your slaves—both we and the one in whose sack the cup was found.”
ユダいひけるは我等主に何をいはんや何をのべんや如何にしてわれらの正直をあらはさんや神僕等の罪を摘發したまへり然ば我等およびこの杯の見あたりし者倶に主の奴隸となるべし
17 But Joseph replied, “No, I could never do anything like that. Only the man in whose sack the cup was found will become my slave. The rest of you can return to your father peacefully.”
ヨセフいひけるはきはめて然せじ杯の手に見あたりし人はわが奴隸となるべし汝等は安然に父にかへりのぼるべし
18 Then Judah came near to Joseph and said, “Sir, please let me say something to you. You are equal to the king himself, so you could command that I be executed; but do not be angry with me for speaking to you.
時にユダかれに近よりていひけるはわが主よ請ふ僕をして主の耳に一言いふをえせしめよ僕にむかひて怒を發したまふなかれ汝はパロのごとくにいますなり
19 You asked us, ‘Is your father still living, and do you have another brother?’
昔にわが主僕等に問て汝等は父あるや弟あるやといひたまひしかば
20 We answered, ‘Our father is alive, but he is an old man. He has a young son who was born after our father became an old man. That son had an [older] brother, who is now dead. So the youngest son is the only one of his mother’s sons who is still alive, and his father loves him very much.’
我等主にいへり我等にわが父あり老人なり又その老年子なる少者ありその兄は死てその母の遺せるは只是のみ故に父これを愛すと
21 Then you said to us, ‘The next time you come here, bring your younger brother down to me, so that I can see him.’
汝また僕等にいひたまはく彼を我許につれくだり我をして之に目をつくることをえせしめよと
22 We said to you, ‘No, we cannot do that, because the boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die from sorrow.’
われら主にいへり童子父を離るをえず若父をはなるるならば父死べしと
23 But you told us, ‘If your youngest brother does not come back with you, I will not let you see me again!’
汝また僕等にいひたまはく汝らの季の弟汝等とともに下るにあらざれば汝等ふたたたびわが面を見るべからずと
24 When we returned to our father, we told him what you said.
我等すなはちなんぢの僕わが父の所にかへりのぼりて主の言をこれに告たり
25 [Months later] our father said, ‘Go back to Egypt and buy some more grain!’
我らの父再びゆきて少許の糧食を買きたれといひければ
26 But we said, ‘We cannot go back by ourselves. We will go only if our youngest brother is with us. We will not be able to see the man who sells grain if our youngest brother is not with us.’
我らいふ我らくだりゆくことをえずわれらの季の弟われらと共にあらば下りゆくべし其は季の弟われらと共にあるにあらざれば彼人の面をみるをえざればなりと
27 Our father replied, ‘You know that my wife [Rachel] gave birth to two sons for me.
なんぢの僕わが父われらにいふ汝らのしるごとく吾妻われに二人を生しが
28 One of them disappeared, and I said, “A wild animal has surely torn him to pieces.” And I have not seen him since then.
その一人出てわれをはなれたれば必ず裂ころされしならんと思へり我今にいたるまで彼を見ず
29 I am an old gray-haired man. If you take this other one from me, too, and something harms him, you would cause me to die because of my sorrow.’ (Sheol h7585)
なんぢら是をも我側より取ゆかんに若災害是の身におよぶあらば遂にわが白髮をして悲みて墓にくだらしむるにいたらんと (Sheol h7585)
30 “So please listen. My father will remain alive only if his youngest son remains alive.
抑父の生命と童子の生命とは相結びてあれば我なんぢの僕わが父に歸りいたらん時に童子もしわれらと共に在ずば如何ぞや
31 If he sees that the boy is not with us when we return to him, he will die. We will cause our gray-haired father to die because of his sorrow. (Sheol h7585)
父童子の在ざるを見ば死るにいたらん然れば僕等なんぢの僕われらの父の白髮をして悲みて墓にくだらしむるなり (Sheol h7585)
32 I guaranteed/promised to my father that the boy would return safely. I told him, ‘You can require me to do what I am promising. If I do not bring him back to you, you can say forever that (I am to blame/it is my fault) [for not bringing him back to you].’
僕わが父に童子の事を保ひて我もし是を汝につれかへらずば永久に罪を父に負んといへり
33 “So, please let me remain here as your slave instead of my youngest brother, and let the boy return home with his other older brothers.
されば請ふ僕をして童子にかはりをりて主の奴隸とならしめ童子をしてその兄弟とともに歸りのぼらしめたまへ
34 (I cannot return to my father if the boy is not with me!/How can I return to my father if the boy is not with me?) [RHQ] I do not want to see how miserable/sad my father would become!”
我いかでか童子を伴はずして父の許に上りゆくべけん恐くは災害の父におよぶを見ん
