Genesis 9
1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
神はノアとその子らとを祝福して彼らに言われた、「生めよ、ふえよ、地に満ちよ。
2 All the wild animals on the earth and all the birds, all the creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the fish, will be very afraid [DOU] of you. I have put them under your control.
地のすべての獣、空のすべての鳥、地に這うすべてのもの、海のすべての魚は恐れおののいて、あなたがたの支配に服し、
3 Just as I previously said you could eat green plants for food, now I am saying you can eat everything that lives and moves.
すべて生きて動くものはあなたがたの食物となるであろう。さきに青草をあなたがたに与えたように、わたしはこれらのものを皆あなたがたに与える。
4 [It is blood that causes creatures to be alive], therefore you must not eat meat that still has blood in it after the animal is killed. [After you have drained the blood out, you may cook it and eat it].
しかし肉を、その命である血のままで、食べてはならない。
5 I insist that murderers must be executed. Animals that kill people must also be executed. The reason that everyone who murders someone else must be executed is that
あなたがたの命の血を流すものには、わたしは必ず報復するであろう。いかなる獣にも報復する。兄弟である人にも、わたしは人の命のために、報復するであろう。
6 I made people to be like myself [in many ways]. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, [because he killed someone who is like me].
人の血を流すものは、人に血を流される、神が自分のかたちに人を造られたゆえに。
7 As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
あなたがたは、生めよ、ふえよ、地に群がり、地の上にふえよ」。
8 God also said to Noah and his sons,
神はノアおよび共にいる子らに言われた、
9 “Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
「わたしはあなたがた及びあなたがたの後の子孫と契約を立てる。
10 and with all the living creatures that are with you—including the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals—every living creature on the earth that came out of the boat with you.
またあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物、あなたがたと共にいる鳥、家畜、地のすべての獣、すなわち、すべて箱舟から出たものは、地のすべての獣にいたるまで、わたしはそれと契約を立てよう。
11 This is the promise that I am making to you: I will never again destroy all living creatures by a flood, or destroy everything else on the earth by a flood.”
わたしがあなたがたと立てるこの契約により、すべて肉なる者は、もはや洪水によって滅ぼされることはなく、また地を滅ぼす洪水は、再び起らないであろう」。
12 Then God said to him, “This is the sign to guarantee that I will keep the promise that I am making to you and to all living creatures, a promise that I will keep forever:
さらに神は言われた、「これはわたしと、あなたがた及びあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物との間に代々かぎりなく、わたしが立てる契約のしるしである。
13 [From time to time] I will put a rainbow in the sky. It will remind me of my promise that I have made to you and everything on the earth.
すなわち、わたしは雲の中に、にじを置く。これがわたしと地との間の契約のしるしとなる。
14 When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
わたしが雲を地の上に起すとき、にじは雲の中に現れる。
15 it will remind me about the promise that I have made to you and all living creatures, my promise that there will never again be a flood that will destroy all living creatures.
こうして、わたしは、わたしとあなたがた、及びすべて肉なるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた契約を思いおこすゆえ、水はふたたび、すべて肉なる者を滅ぼす洪水とはならない。
16 Whenever there is a rainbow in the sky, I will see it, and I will think about the promise that I have made to every living creature that is upon the earth, a promise that I will keep forever.”
にじが雲の中に現れるとき、わたしはこれを見て、神が地上にあるすべて肉なるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた永遠の契約を思いおこすであろう」。
17 Then God said to Noah, “The rainbow will be the sign of the promise that I have made to all the creatures that live on the earth.”
そして神はノアに言われた、「これがわたしと地にあるすべて肉なるものとの間に、わたしが立てた契約のしるしである」。
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
箱舟から出たノアの子らはセム、ハム、ヤペテであった。ハムはカナンの父である。
19 All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
この三人はノアの子らで、全地の民は彼らから出て、広がったのである。
20 Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
さてノアは農夫となり、ぶどう畑をつくり始めたが、
21 [When they later produced grapes, he made wine from the grapes]. One day, when he drank too much of the wine, he became drunk, and he lay naked in his tent.
彼はぶどう酒を飲んで酔い、天幕の中で裸になっていた。
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father lying naked in the tent. So he went outside and told his two older brothers what he had seen.
カナンの父ハムは父の裸を見て、外にいるふたりの兄弟に告げた。
23 Then Shem and Japheth took a large cloth and placed it across their backs, and walked backwards into the tent. They covered their father’s naked body with the cloth. Their faces were turned away from their father, so they did not see him naked.
セムとヤペテとは着物を取って、肩にかけ、うしろ向きに歩み寄って、父の裸をおおい、顔をそむけて父の裸を見なかった。
24 When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
やがてノアは酔いがさめて、末の子が彼にした事を知ったとき、
25 He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
彼は言った、「カナンはのろわれよ。彼はしもべのしもべとなって、その兄弟たちに仕える」。
26 I will ask God to enlarge the territory that belongs to Japheth, and allow his descendants to live peacefully among the descendants of Shem [MTY].
また言った、「セムの神、主はほむべきかな、カナンはそのしもべとなれ。
27 And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
神はヤペテを大いならしめ、セムの天幕に彼を住まわせられるように。カナンはそのしもべとなれ」。
28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
ノアは洪水の後、なお三百五十年生きた。
29 He died when he was 950 years old.
ノアの年は合わせて九百五十歳であった。そして彼は死んだ。
