申命記 4

1 今イスラエルよ我が汝らに敎ふる法度と律法を聽てこれを行へ然せば汝らは生ることを得汝らの先祖の神ヱホバの汝らに賜ふ地にいりて之を產業となすを得べし

And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

2 我が汝らに命ずる言は汝らこれを増しまたは減すべからず我が汝らに命ずる汝らの神ヱホバの命令を守るべし

You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

3 汝らはヱホバがバアルペオルの事によりて行ひたまひし所を目に觀たり即ちバアルペオルに從ひたる人々は汝の神ヱホバことごとく之を汝らの中間より滅し去たまひしが

Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.

4 汝らの神ヱホバに附て離れざりし汝等はみな今日までも生ながらへ居るなり

But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day.

5 我はわが神ヱホバの我に命じたまひし如くに法度と律法を汝らに敎へ汝らをしてその往て獲ところの地において之を行はしめんとせり

You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess:

6 然ば汝ら之を守り行ふべし然する事は國々の民の目の前において汝らの智慧たり汝らの知識たるなり彼らこの諸の法度を聞て言んこの大なる國人は必ず智慧あり知識ある民なりと

And you shall observe, and fulfill them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.

7 われらの神ヱホバは我らがこれに龥もとむるに常に我らに近く在すなり何の國人か斯のごとく大にして神これに近く在すぞ

Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.

8 また何の國人か斯のごとく大にして今日我が汝らの前に立るこの一切の律法の如き正しき法度と律法とを有るぞ

For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before your eyes?

9 汝深く自ら愼み汝の心を善く守れ恐くは汝その目に觀たる事を忘れん恐くは汝らの生存らふる日の中に其等の事汝の心を離れん汝それらの事を汝の子汝の孫に敎へよ

Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

10 汝がホレブにおいて汝の神ヱホバの前に立る日にヱホバわれに言たまひけらく我ために民を集めよ我これに吾言を聽しめ之をしてその世に存らふる日の間我を畏るることを學ばせまたその子女を敎ふることを爲しめんとすと

From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children.

11 是において汝らは前みよりて山の麓に立ちけるが山は火にて燒てその燄は中天に沖り暗くして雲あり黑雲深かりき

And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

12 時にヱホバ火の中より汝らに言ひたまひしが汝らは言詞の聲を聞る而已にて聲の外は何の像をも見ざりし

And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.

13 ヱホバすなはち其契約を汝らに述て汝らに之を守れと命じたまへり是すなはち十誡にしてヱホバこれを二枚の石の板に書したまふ

And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and the ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.

14 かの時にヱホバ我に命じて汝らに法度と律法を敎へしめたまへり是汝らにその往て獲ところの地にて之を爲しめんとてなりき

And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall possess.

15 ホレブにおいてヱホバ火の中より汝らに言ひたまひし日には汝ら何の像をも見ざりしなり然ば汝ら深く自ら愼み

Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude in the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire:

16 道をあやまりて自己のために偶像を刻む勿れ物の像は男の形にもあれ女の形にもあれ凡て造るなかれ

Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,

17 即ち地の上にをる諸の獣の像空に飛ぶ諸の鳥の像

The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven,

18 地に匍ふもろもろの物の像地の下の水の中に居る諸の魚の像など凡て造る勿れ

Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that abide in the waters under the earth:

19 汝目をあげて天を望み日月星辰など凡て天の衆群を觀誘はれてこれを拝み之に事ふる勿れ是は汝の神ヱホバが一天下の萬國の人々に分ちたまひし者なり

Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

20 ヱホバ汝らを取り汝らを鐵の爐の中すなはちエジプトより導きいだして自己の產業の民となしたまへること今日のごとし

But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.

21 然るにヱホバなんぢらの故によりて我を怒り我はヨルダンを濟りゆくことを得ずまた汝の神ヱホバが汝の產業に賜ひしその美地に入ことを得ずと誓ひたまへり

And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that I should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land, which he will give you.

22 我はこの地に死ざるを得ず我はヨルダンを濟りゆくことあたはずなんぢらは濟りゆきて之を獲て產業となすことを得ん

Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly land.

23 汝ら自ら愼み汝らの神ヱホバが汝らに立たまひし契約を忘れて汝の神ヱホバの禁じたまふ偶像など凡て物の像を刻むことを爲なかれ

Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:

24 汝の神ヱホバは燬盡す火嫉妬神なり

Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

25 汝ら子を擧け孫を得てその地に長く居におよびて若し道をあやまりて偶像など凡て物の像を刻み汝の神ヱホバの惡と觀たまふ事をなしてその震怒を惹おこすことあらば

If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:

26 我今日天と地を呼て證となす汝らはかならずそのヨルダンを濟りゆきて獲たる地より速かに滅亡うせん汝らはその上に汝らの日を永うする能はず必ず滅びうせん

I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you,

27 ヱホバなんぢらを國々に散したまべしヱホバの汝らを逐やりたまふ國々の中に汝らの遺る者はその數寡なからん

And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

28 其處にて汝らは人の手の作なる見ことも聞ことも食ふことも嗅こともなき木や石の神々に事へん

And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men’s hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29 但しまた其處にて汝その神ヱホバを求むるあらんに若し心をつくし精神を盡してこれを求めなば之に遇ん

And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.

30 後の日にいたりて汝艱難にあひて此もろもろの事の汝に臨まん時に汝もしその神ヱホバにたち歸りてその言にしたがはば

After all the things aforesaid shall and thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.

31 汝の神ヱホバは慈悲ある神なれば汝を棄ず汝を滅さずまた汝の先祖に誓ひたりし契約を忘れたまはざるべし

Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers.

32 試に問へ汝の前に過さりし日神が地の上に人を造りたまひし日より已來天の此極より彼極までに曾て斯のごとき大なる事ありしや是のごとき事の聞えたる事ありしや

Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the day that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time,

33 曾て人神が火の中より言ふ聲を汝らが聞るごとくに聞て尚生る者ありしや

That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:

34 汝らの神ヱホバがエジプトにおいて汝らの目の前にて汝らの爲に諸の事を爲たまひし如く曾て試探と徴證と奇蹟と戰爭と強き手と伸たる腕と大なる恐嚇をもて來りこの民をかの民の中より領いださんとせし神ありしや

If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy eyes.

35 汝にこの事を示ししはヱホバはすなはち神にしてその外には有ことなしと汝に知しめんがためなりき

That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

36 汝を敎へんためにヱホバ天より汝に聲を聞しめ地に於てはまたその大なる火を汝に示したまへり即ち汝はその言の火の中より出るを聞り

From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,

37 ヱホバ汝の先祖等を愛したまひしが故にその後の子孫を選び大なる能力をもて親ら汝をエジプトより導き出したまひ

Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,

38 汝よりも大にして強き國々の民を汝の前より逐はらひ汝をその地に導きいりて之を汝の產業に與へんとしたまふこと今日のごとくなり

To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.

39 然ば汝今日知て心に思念べし上は天下は地においてヱホバは神にいましその外には神有こと無し

Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.

40 今日わが汝に命ずるヱホバの法度と命令を守るべし然せば汝と汝の後の子孫祥を得汝の神ヱホバの汝にたまふ地において汝その日を永うすることを得て疆なからん

Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

41 斯てモーセ、ヨルダンの此旁日の出る方にないて邑三を別てり

Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east side,

42 是素より怨なきに誤りて人を殺せる者をして其處に逃れしむる爲なり其邑の一に逃るる時はその人生命を全うするを得べし

That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he might escape to some one of these cities:

43 即ち一は曠野の内の平野にあるベゼル是はルベン人のためなり一はギレアデのラモテ是はガド人のためなり一はバシヤンのゴラン是はマナセ人のためなり

Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.

44 モーセがイスラエルの子孫の前に示しし律法は是なり

This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,

45 イスラエルの子孫のエジプトより出たる後モーセこの誡命と法度と律法を之に述たり

And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which he spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,

46 即ちヨルダンの此旁なるアモリ人の王シホンの地にありベテペオルに對する谷に於て之を述たりシホンはヘシボンに住をりしがモーセとイスラエルの子孫エジプトより出きたりし後これを撃ほろぼして

Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of Phogor, in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of Israel coming out of Egypt,

47 之が地を獲またバシヤンの王オグの地を獲たり彼ら二人はアモリ人の王にしてヨルダンの此旁日の出る方に居り

Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two kings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun:

48 その獲たる地はアルノン河の邊なるアロエルよりヘルモンといふシオン山にいたり

From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Amen, unto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,

49 ヨルダンの此旁すなはちその東の方なるアラバの全部を括てアラバの鹽海に達しピスガの麓におよべり

All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the see of the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.