創世記 13
1 アブラム其妻および其有る諸の物と偕にエジプトを出て南の地に上れりロト彼と共にありき
And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.
2 アブラム甚家畜と金銀に富り
Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
3 彼南の地より其旅路に進てベテルに至りベテルとアイの間なる其以前に天幕を張たる處に至れり
And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;
4 即ち彼が初に其處に築きたる壇のある處なり彼處にアブラム、ヱホバの名を龥り
To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.
5 アブラムと偕に行しロトも羊牛および天幕を有り
And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;
6 其地は彼等を載て倶に居しむること能はざりき彼等は其所有多かりしに縁て倶に居ることを得ざりしなり
So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.
7 斯有かばアブラムの家畜の牧者とロトの家畜の牧者の間に競爭ありきカナン人とペリジ人此時其地に居住り
And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.
8 アブラム、ロトに言けるは我等は兄弟の人なれば請ふ我と汝の間およびわが牧者と汝の牧者の間に競爭あらしむる勿れ
Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.
9 地は皆爾の前にあるにあらずや請ふ我を離れよ爾若左にゆかば我右にゆかん又爾右にゆかば我左にゆかんと
Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.
10 是に於てロト目を擧てヨルダンの凡ての低地を瞻望みけるにヱホバ、ソドムとゴモラとを滅し給はざりし前なりければゾアルに至るまであまねく善く潤澤ひてヱホバの園の如くエジプトの地の如くなりき
And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
11 ロト乃ちヨルダンの低地を盡く撰とりて東に徙れり斯彼等彼此に別たり
So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.
12 アブラムはカナンの地に住り又ロトは低地の諸邑に住み其天幕を遷してソドムに至れり
Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.
13 ソドムの人は惡くしてヱホバの前に大なる罪人なりき
Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
14 ロトのアブラムに別れし後ヱホバ、アブラムに言たまひけるは爾の目を擧て爾の居る處より西東北南を瞻望め
And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:
15 凡そ汝が觀る所の地は我之を永く爾と爾の裔に與べし
For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
16 我爾の後裔を地の塵沙の如くなさん若人地の塵沙を數ふることを得ば爾の後裔も數へらるべし
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
17 爾起て縱横に其地を行き巡るべし我之を爾に與へんと
Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.
18 アブラム遂に天幕を遷して來りヘブロンのマムレの橡林に住み彼處にてヱホバに壇を築けり
And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.
