Matthew 1
1 [This is] the record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, the descendant of [King] David and of Abraham, [from whom all we Jews have descended].
アブラハムの子であるダビデの子、イエス・キリストの系図。
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Judah and Judah’s [older and younger] brothers.
アブラハムはイサクの父であり、イサクはヤコブの父、ヤコブはユダとその兄弟たちとの父、
3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, [and their mother] was Tamar. Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron was the father of Ram.
ユダはタマルによるパレスとザラとの父、パレスはエスロンの父、エスロンはアラムの父、
4 Ram was the father of Amminadab. Amminadab was the father of Nahshon. Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
アラムはアミナダブの父、アミナダブはナアソンの父、ナアソンはサルモンの父、
5 Salmon and his wife Rahab, [a non-Jewish woman], were the parents of Boaz. Boaz was the father of Obed. [Obed’s mother was] Ruth, [another non-Jewish woman]. Obed was the father of Jesse.
サルモンはラハブによるボアズの父、ボアズはルツによるオベデの父、オベデはエッサイの父、
6 Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon. [Solomon’s mother was previously married to] Uriah.
エッサイはダビデ王の父であった。ダビデはウリヤの妻によるソロモンの父であり、
7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam was the father of Abijah. Abijah was the father of Asaph.
ソロモンはレハベアムの父、レハベアムはアビヤの父、アビヤはアサの父、
8 Asaph was the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram. Jehoram was an ancestor of Uzziah.
アサはヨサパテの父、ヨサパテはヨラムの父、ヨラムはウジヤの父、
9 Uzziah was the father of Jotham. Jotham was the father of Ahaz. Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah.
ウジヤはヨタムの父、ヨタムはアハズの父、アハズはヒゼキヤの父、
10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh. Manasseh was the father of Amon. Amon was the father of Josiah.
ヒゼキヤはマナセの父、マナセはアモンの父、アモンはヨシヤの父、
11 Josiah was the grandfather of Jeconiah and Jeconiah’s brothers. [They lived] at the time when the [Babylonian army] took the Israelites as captives to the [country of] Babylon.
ヨシヤはバビロンへ移されたころ、エコニヤとその兄弟たちとの父となった。
12 After the Babylonians took the Israelites to Babylon, Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel was the grandfather of Zerubbabel.
バビロンへ移されたのち、エコニヤはサラテルの父となった。サラテルはゾロバベルの父、
13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud. Abiud was the father of Eliakim.
ゾロバベルはアビウデの父、アビウデはエリヤキムの父、エリヤキムはアゾルの父、
14 Eliakim was the father of Azor. Azor was the father of Zadok. Zadok was the father of Akim.
アゾルはサドクの父、サドクはアキムの父、アキムはエリウデの父、
15 Akim was the father of Eliud. Eliud was the father of Eleazar. Eleazar was the father of Matthan. Matthan was the father of Jacob.
エリウデはエレアザルの父、エレアザルはマタンの父、マタンはヤコブの父、
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph. Joseph was Mary’s husband, and Mary was Jesus’ mother. Jesus is the one who is called {whom we call} the Messiah.
ヤコブはマリヤの夫ヨセフの父であった。このマリヤからキリストといわれるイエスがお生れになった。
17 [As you can calculate, I have grouped Jesus’] ancestors [as follows: ] There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when] Abraham [lived] to [the time when King] David [lived]. There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when] David [lived] to [the time when] the [Israelites were taken] {[the Babylonian army took the Israelites]} away to Babylon. There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when the Israelites were taken] {[the Babylonian army took the Israelites]} away to Babylon until [the time when] the Messiah [was born].
だから、アブラハムからダビデまでの代は合わせて十四代、ダビデからバビロンへ移されるまでは十四代、そして、バビロンへ移されてからキリストまでは十四代である。
18 This is [the account of what happened just before] Jesus Christ was born. Mary, his mother, {had publicly promised Joseph that she would marry him} had been publicly promised to marry Joseph. Before they began to sleep together, [Mary] realized that she was pregnant. [It was the power of] the Holy Spirit that had caused her to become pregnant.
イエス・キリストの誕生の次第はこうであった。母マリヤはヨセフと婚約していたが、まだ一緒にならない前に、聖霊によって身重になった。
19 Joseph, her [future] husband, was a man who obeyed God’s commands. [One of those commands was that men must divorce women who had acted immorally. So when Joseph learned that Mary was pregnant, he assumed that she was pregnant as a result of her acting immorally]. So he decided to break the engagement. But because he did not want to shame her publicly, he decided to do it privately.
夫ヨセフは正しい人であったので、彼女のことが公けになることを好まず、ひそかに離縁しようと決心した。
20 While he was seriously considering this, much to his surprise, in a dream he saw an angel whom the Lord [had sent]. The angel said, “Joseph, descendant of [King] David, do not be afraid that [you(sg) would be doing wrong if you(sg) would marry] Mary. Instead, [begin to treat her] as your wife, because the Holy Spirit, [not a man], has caused her to be pregnant.
彼がこのことを思いめぐらしていたとき、主の使が夢に現れて言った、「ダビデの子ヨセフよ、心配しないでマリヤを妻として迎えるがよい。その胎内に宿っているものは聖霊によるのである。
21 She will give birth to a son. Since it is he who will cause that his people will be saved from [the guilt of] their having sinned, name [the baby] Jesus, [which means ‘the Lord saves people’].”
彼女は男の子を産むであろう。その名をイエスと名づけなさい。彼は、おのれの民をそのもろもろの罪から救う者となるからである」。
22 All this happened as a result of what the Lord told the prophet [Isaiah to write long ago about what was going to happen]. This is what Isaiah wrote:
すべてこれらのことが起ったのは、主が預言者によって言われたことの成就するためである。すなわち、
23 “Listen, a virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son. They will call him Emmanuel.” Emmanuel means ‘God is with us’.
「見よ、おとめがみごもって男の子を産むであろう。その名はインマヌエルと呼ばれるであろう」。これは、「神われらと共にいます」という意味である。
24 When Joseph got up from sleep, he did what the angel whom the Lord [had sent] commanded him to do. He took [Mary] home to be his wife.
ヨセフは眠りからさめた後に、主の使が命じたとおりに、マリヤを妻に迎えた。
25 But he did not have sexual relations with her until she had given birth to a son. And [Joseph] named him Jesus.
しかし、子が生れるまでは、彼女を知ることはなかった。そして、その子をイエスと名づけた。
