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, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
2 アブラム甚家畜と金銀に富り
And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.
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 he returned by the way that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai:
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
In the place of the altar which he had made before; and there he called upon 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
But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, 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
Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell 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
Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.
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
Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.
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
Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass 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, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.
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
And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.
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 dwelt in the land of Chanaan; and Lot abode in the towns that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in 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
And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord, beyond measure.
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 said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, 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
All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy 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 thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.
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
Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.
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
So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.
