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 Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in 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 he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, 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
unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first; and Abram called there on 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 also, who went with Abram, 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
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that 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
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then 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
And Abram said unto Lot: 'Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; 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
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me; if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take the right hand, then 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 lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto 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 chose him all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one 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 Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved 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 wicked and sinners against the LORD exceedingly.
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 unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him: 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
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 thou seest, to thee will I give it, 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; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also 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
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.'
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 moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
