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

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Yhwh God of your fathers giveth 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

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yhwh 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 what Yhwh did because of Baal–peor: for all the men that followed Baal–peor, Yhwh thy God hath destroyed them 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 ye that did cleave unto Yhwh your God are alive every one of you this 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

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Yhwh my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

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

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

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

For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Yhwh our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

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

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

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

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

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

Specially the day that thou stoodest before Yhwh thy God in Horeb, when Yhwh said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they 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 ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

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 Yhwh spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

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 declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon 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 Yhwh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

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

Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that Yhwh spake unto you in Horeb out of 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 ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness 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 likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

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

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath 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

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which Yhwh thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole 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 Yhwh hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this 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

Furthermore Yhwh was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Yhwh thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

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

But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good 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

Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Yhwh your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which Yhwh thy God hath forbidden thee.

24 汝の神ヱホバは燬盡す火嫉妬神なり

For Yhwh thy God is a consuming fire, even 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

When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of Yhwh thy God, to provoke him to anger:

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 heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

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 Yhwh shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither Yhwh 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 ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which 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

But if from thence thou shalt seek Yhwh thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all 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

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to Yhwh thy God, and shalt be obedient unto 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

( For Yhwh thy God is a merciful God; ) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

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

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

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

Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

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

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yhwh your God did for you in Egypt before your 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

Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that Yhwh he is God; there is none else beside 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

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest 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

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

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 drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this 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 consider it in thine heart, that Yhwh he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

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

Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which Yhwh thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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 severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

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 the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

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

Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

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

And this is the law which 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

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth 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

On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth–peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth 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

And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

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 by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is 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

And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.