Genesis 37
1 Jacob lived in the land where his father was staying, in the land of Canaan.
ヤコブはカナンの地に住り即ちその父が寄寓し地なり
2 These were the events concerning Jacob. Joseph, who was a young man seventeen years old, was guarding the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an unfavorable report about them to their father.
ヤコブの傳は左のごとしヨセフ十七歳にしてその兄弟と偕に羊を牧ふヨセフは童子にしてその父の妻ビルハの子およびジルパの子と侶たりしが彼等の惡き事を父につぐ
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was the son of his old age. He made him a beautiful garment.
ヨセフは老年子なるが故にイスラエルその諸の兄弟よりも深くこれを愛しこれがために綵る衣を製れり
4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. They hated him and would not speak kindly to him.
その兄弟等父がその諸の兄弟よりも深く彼を愛するを見て彼を惡み穩和に彼にものいふことを得せざりき
5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told his brothers about it. They hated him even more.
茲にヨセフ夢をみてその兄弟に告ければ彼等愈これを惡めり
6 He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I dreamed.
ヨセフ彼等にいひけるは請ふわが夢たる此夢を聽け
7 Behold, we were tying bundles of grain in the field and behold, my bundle rose and stood upright, and behold, your bundles came around and bowed down to my bundle.”
我等田の中に禾束をむすび居たるにわが禾束おき且立り而して汝等の禾束環りたちてわが禾束を拜せり
8 His brothers said to him, “Will you really reign over us? Will you actually rule over us?” They hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
その兄弟等之にいひけるは汝眞にわれらの君となるや眞に我等ををさむるにいたるやとその夢とその言のために益これを惡めり
9 He dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers. He said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream: The sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
ヨセフ又一の夢をみて之をその兄弟に述ていひけるは我まら夢をみたるに日と月と十一の星われを拜せりと
10 He told it to his father just as to his brothers, and his father rebuked him. He said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come to bow down to the ground to you?”
則ちこれをその父と兄弟に述ければ父かれを戒めて彼にいふ汝が夢しこの夢は何ぞや我と汝の母となんぢの兄弟と實にゆきて地に鞠て汝を拜するにいたらんやと
11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
斯しかばその兄弟かれを嫉めり然どその父はこの言をおぼえたり
12 His brothers went to tend their father's flock in Shechem.
茲にその兄弟等シケムにゆきて父の羊を牧ゐたりしかば
13 Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers tending the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” Joseph said to him, “I am ready.”
イスラエル、ヨセフにいひけるは汝の兄弟はシケムにて羊を牧をるにあらずや來れ汝を彼等につかはさんヨセフ父にいふ我ここにあり
14 He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flock, and bring me word.” So Jacob sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and Joseph went to Shechem.
父かれにいひけるは請ふ往て汝の兄弟と群の恙なきや否を見てかへりて我につげよと彼をヘブロンの谷より遣はしければ遂にシケムに至る。
15 A certain man found Joseph. Behold, Joseph was wandering in a field. The man asked him, “What do you seek?”
或人かれに遇ふに彼野にさまよひをりしかば其人かれに問て汝何をたづぬるやといひければ
16 Joseph said, “I am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are tending the flock.”
彼いふ我はわが兄弟等をたづぬ請ふかれらが羊をかひをる所をわれに告よ
17 The man said, “They left this place, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'” Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
その人いひけるは彼等は此をされり我かれらがドタンにゆかんといふを聞たりと是に於てヨセフその兄弟の後をおひゆきドタンにて之に遇ふ
18 They saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them, they plotted against him to kill him.
ヨセフの彼等に近かざる前に彼ら之を遙に見てこれを殺さんと謀り
19 His brothers said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is approaching.
互にいひけるは視よ作夢者きたり
20 Come now, therefore, let us kill him and cast him into one of the pits. We will say, 'A wild animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams.”
去來彼をころして阱に投いれ或惡き獸これを食たりと言ん而して彼の夢の如何になるかを觀るべし
21 Reuben heard it and rescued him from their hand. He said, “Let us not take his life.”
ルベン聞てヨセフを彼等の手より拯ひださんとして言けるは我等これを殺すべからず
22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to bring him back to his father.
ルベンまた彼らにいひけるは血をながすなかれ之を曠野の此阱に投いれて手をこれにつくるなかれと是は之を彼等の手よりすくひだして父に歸んとてなりき
23 It came about that when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his beautiful garment.
茲にヨセフ兄弟の許に到りければ彼等ヨセフの衣即ちその着たる綵る衣を褫ぎ
24 They took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty with no water in it.
彼を執て阱に投いれたり阱は空にしてその中に水あらざりき
25 They sat down to eat bread. They lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh. They were traveling to carry them down to Egypt.
斯して彼等坐りてパンを食ひ目をあげて見しに一群のイシマエル人駱駝に香物と乳香と沒藥をおはせてエジプトにくだりゆかんとてギレアデより來る
26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
ユダその兄弟にいひけるは我儕弟をころしてその血を匿すも何の益かあらん
27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands upon him. For he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
去來彼をイシマエル人に賣ん彼は我等の兄弟われらの肉なればわれらの手をかれにつくべからずと兄弟等これを善とす
28 The Midianite merchants passed by. His brothers drew Joseph up and lifted him up out of the pit. They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites carried Joseph into Egypt.
時にミデアンの商旅經過ければヨセフを阱よりひきあげ銀二十枚にてヨセフをイシマエル人に賣り彼等すなはちヨセフをエジプトにたづさへゆきぬ
29 Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. He tore his clothes.
茲にルベンかへりて阱にいたり見しにヨセフ阱にをらざりしかばその衣を裂き
30 He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there! And I, where can I go?”
兄弟の許にかへりて言ふ童子はをらず嗚呼我何處にゆくべきや
31 They slaughtered a goat and then took Joseph's garment and dipped it into the blood.
斯て彼等ヨセフの衣をとり牡山羊の羔をころしてその衣を血に濡し
32 Then they brought it to their father and said, “We found this. Please see whether it is your son's clothing or not.”
その綵る衣を父におくり遣していひけるは我等これを得たりなんぢの子の衣なるや否を知れと
33 Jacob recognized it and said, “It is my son's clothing. A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph has certainly been torn to pieces.”
父これを知りていふわが子の衣なり惡き獸彼をくらへりヨセフはかならずさかれしならんと
34 Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth upon his loins. He mourned for his son many days.
ヤコブその衣を裂き麻布を腰にまとひ久しくその子のためになげけり
35 All his sons and daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “Indeed I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” His father wept for him. (Sheol h7585)
その子女みな起てかれを慰むれどもその慰謝をうけずして我は哀きつつ陰府にくだりて我子のもとにゆかんといふ斯その父かれのために哭ぬ (Sheol h7585)
36 The Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard.
偖ミデアン人はエジプトにてパロの侍衞の長ポテパルにヨセフを賣り
