サムエル記Ⅰ 6
1 ヱホバの櫃七月のあひだペリシテ人の國にあり
And the ark of Jehovah is in the field of the Philistines seven months,
2 ペリシテ人祭司と卜筮師をよびていひけるは我らヱホバの櫃をいかがせんや如何にして之をもとの所にかへすべきか我らにつげよ
and the Philistines call for priests and for diviners, saying, 'What do we do to the ark of Jehovah? let us know wherewith we send it to its place?'
3 答へけるはイスラエルの神の櫃をかへすときはこれを空しくかへすなかれ必らず彼に過祭をなすべし然なさば汝ら愈ことをえ且彼の手の汝らをはなれざる故を知にいたらん
And they say, 'If ye are sending away the ark of the God of Israel, ye do not send it away empty; for ye do certainly send back to Him a guilt-offering; then ye are healed, and it hath been known to you why His hand doth not turn aside from you.'
4 人々いひけるは如何なる過祭を彼になすべきや答へけるはペリシテ人の諸君主の數にしたがひて五の金の腫物と五の金の鼠をつくれ是は汝ら皆と汝らの諸伯におよべる災は一なるによる
And they say, 'What [is] the guilt-offering which we send back to Him?' and they say, 'The number of the princes of the Philistines — five golden emerods, and five golden mice — for one plague [is] to you all, and to your princes,
5 汝らの腫物の像および地をあらす鼠の像をつくりイスラエルの神に榮光を皈すべし庶幾はその手を汝等およびなんぢらの神と汝等の地にくはふることを軽くせん
and ye have made images of your emerods, and images of your mice that are corrupting the land, and have given honour to the God of Israel; it may be He doth lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land;
6 汝らなんぞエジプト人とパロの其心を頑にせしごとくおのれの心をかたくなにするや神かれらの中に數度其力をしめせしのち彼ら民をゆかしめ民つひにさりしにあらずや
and why do ye harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? do they not — when He hath rolled Himself upon them — send them away, and they go?
7 されば今あたらしき車一輛をつくり乳牛のいまだ軛をつけざるもの二頭をとり其牛を車に繋ぎ其犢をはなして家につれゆき
'And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling kine, on which a yoke hath not gone up, and ye have bound the kine in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house,
8 ヱホバの櫃をとりて之を其車に載せ汝らが過祭として彼になす金の製作物を檟にをさめて其傍におき之をおくりて去らしめ
and ye have taken the ark of Jehovah, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which ye have returned to Him — a guilt-offering — ye put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it hath gone;
9 しかして見よ若し其境のみちよりベテシメシにのぼらばこの大なる災を我らになせるものは彼なり若ししかせずば我等をうちしは彼の手にあらずしてそのことの偶然なりしをしるべし
and ye have seen, if the way of its own border it goeth up to Beth-Shemesh — He hath done to us this great evil; and if not, then we have known that His hand hath not come against us; an accident it hath been to us.'
10 人々つひに斯なし二つの乳牛をとりて之を車につなぎその犢を室にとぢこめ
And the men do so, and take two suckling kine, and bind them in the cart, and their young ones they have shut up in the house;
11 ヱホバの櫃および金の鼠と其腫物の像ををさめたる檟を車に載す
and they place the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer, and the golden mice, and the images of their emerods.
12 牝牛直にあゆみてベテシメシの路をゆき鳴つつ大路をすすみゆきて右左にまがらずペリシテ人の君主ベテシメシの境まで其うしろにしたがひゆけり
And the kine go straight in the way, on the way to Beth-Shemesh, in one highway they have gone, going and lowing, and have not turned aside right or left; and the princes of the Philistines are going after them unto the border of Beth-Shemesh.
13 時にベテシメシ人谷に麥を刈り居たりしが目をあげて其櫃をみ之を見るをよろこべり
And the Beth-Shemeshites are reaping their wheat-harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and see the ark, and rejoice to see [it].
14 車ベテシメシ人ヨシユアの田にいりて其處にとどまる此に大なる石あり人々車の木を劈り其牝牛を燔祭としてヱホバにささげたり
And the cart hath come in unto the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite, and standeth there, and there [is] a great stone, and they cleave the wood of the cart, and the kine they have caused to ascend — a burnt-offering to Jehovah.
15 レビの人ヱホバの櫃とこれとともなる檟の金の製作物ををさめたる者をとりおろし之を其大石のうへにおくしかしてベテシメシ人此日ヱホバに燔祭をそなへ犠牲をささげたり
And the Levites have taken down the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer which [is] with it, in which [are] the vessels of gold, and place [them] on the great stone; and the men of Beth-Shemesh have caused to ascend burnt-offerings and sacrifice sacrifices in that day to Jehovah;
16 ペリシテ人の五人の君主これを見て同じ日にエクロンにかへれり
and the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and turn back [to] Ekron, on that day.
17 さてペリシテ人が過祭としてヱホバにたせし金の腫物はこれなり即ちアシドドのために一ガザのために一アシケロンのために一ガテのために一エクロンのために一なりき
And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines have sent back — a guilt-offering to Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 また金の鼠は城邑と郷里をいはず凡て五人の君主に屬するペリシテ人の邑の數にしたがひて造れりヱホバの櫃をおろせし大石今日にいたるまでベテシメシ人ヨシユアの田にあり
and the golden mice — the number of all the cities of the Philistines — for the five princes, from the fenced city even unto the hamlet of the villages, even unto the great meadow on which they placed the ark of Jehovah — [are] unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite.
19 ベテシメシの人々ヱホバの櫃をうかがひしによりヱホバこれをうちたまふ即ち民の中七十人をうてりヱホバ民をうちて大にこれをころしたまひしかば民なきさけべり
And He smiteth among the men of Beth-Shemesh, for they looked into the ark of Jehovah, yea, He smiteth among the people seventy men — fifty chief men; and the people mourn, because Jehovah smote among the people — a great smiting.
20 ベテシメシ人いひけるは誰かこの聖き神たるヱホバのまへに立つことをえんヱホバ我らをはなれて何人のところにのぼりゆきたまふべきや
And the men of Beth-Shemesh say, 'Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and unto whom doth He go up from us?'
21 かくて使者をキリアテヤリムの人に遣はしていひけるはペリシテ人ヱホバの櫃をかへしたれば汝らくだりて之を汝らの所に携へのぼるべし
And they send messengers unto the inhabitants of Kirjath-Jearim, saying, 'The Philistines have sent back the ark of Jehovah; come down, take it up unto you.'
