創世記 37
1 ヤコブはカナンの地に住り即ちその父が寄寓し地なり
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
2 ヤコブの傳は左のごとしヨセフ十七歳にしてその兄弟と偕に羊を牧ふヨセフは童子にしてその父の妻ビルハの子およびジルパの子と侶たりしが彼等の惡き事を父につぐ
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 ヨセフは老年子なるが故にイスラエルその諸の兄弟よりも深くこれを愛しこれがために綵る衣を製れり
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
4 その兄弟等父がその諸の兄弟よりも深く彼を愛するを見て彼を惡み穩和に彼にものいふことを得せざりき
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
5 茲にヨセフ夢をみてその兄弟に告ければ彼等愈これを惡めり
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
6 ヨセフ彼等にいひけるは請ふわが夢たる此夢を聽け
He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
7 我等田の中に禾束をむすび居たるにわが禾束おき且立り而して汝等の禾束環りたちてわが禾束を拜せり
We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
8 その兄弟等之にいひけるは汝眞にわれらの君となるや眞に我等ををさむるにいたるやとその夢とその言のために益これを惡めり
“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.
9 ヨセフ又一の夢をみて之をその兄弟に述ていひけるは我また夢をみたるに日と月と十一の星われを拜せりと
Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10 則ちこれをその父と兄弟に述ければ父かれを戒めて彼にいふ汝が夢しこの夢は何ぞや我と汝の母となんぢの兄弟と實にゆきて地に鞠て汝を拜するにいたらんやと
He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
11 斯しかばその兄弟かれを嫉めり然どその父はこの言をおぼえたり
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
12 茲にその兄弟等シケムにゆきて父の羊を牧ゐたりしかば
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
13 イスラエル、ヨセフにいひけるは汝の兄弟はシケムにて羊を牧をるにあらずや來れ汝を彼等につかはさんヨセフ父にいふ我ここにあり
Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
14 父かれにいひけるは請ふ往て汝の兄弟と群の恙なきや否を見てかへりて我につげよと彼をヘブロンの谷より遣はしければ遂にシケムに至る。
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
15 或人かれに遇ふに彼野にさまよひをりしかば其人かれに問て汝何をたづぬるやといひければ
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
16 彼いふ我はわが兄弟等をたづぬ請ふかれらが羊をかひをる所をわれに告よ
“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
17 その人いひけるは彼等は此をされり我かれらがドタンにゆかんといふを聞たりと是に於てヨセフその兄弟の後をおひゆきドタンにて之に遇ふ
“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18 ヨセフの彼等に近かざる前に彼ら之を遙に見てこれを殺さんと謀り
Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
19 互にいひけるは視よ作夢者きたる
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
20 去來彼をころして阱に投いれ或惡き獸これを食たりと言ん而して彼の夢の如何になるかを觀るべし
“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
21 ルベン聞てヨセフを彼等の手より拯ひださんとして言けるは我等これを殺すべからず
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
22 ルベンまた彼らにいひけるは血をながすなかれ之を曠野の此阱に投いれて手をこれにつくるなかれと是は之を彼等の手よりすくひだして父に歸んとてなりき
“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
23 茲にヨセフ兄弟の許に到りければ彼等ヨセフの衣即ちその着たる綵る衣を褫ぎ
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the robe of many colors he was wearing—
24 彼を執て阱に投いれたり阱は空にしてその中に水あらざりき
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.
25 斯して彼等坐てパンを食ひ目をあげて見しに一群のイシマエル人駱駝に香物と乳香と沒藥をおはせてエジプトにくだりゆかんとてギレアデより來る
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
26 ユダその兄弟にいひけるは我儕弟をころしてその血を匿すも何の益かあらん
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
27 去來彼をイシマエル人に賣ん彼は我等の兄弟われらの肉なればわれらの手をかれにつくべからずと兄弟等これを善とす
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
28 時にミデアンの商旅經過ければヨセフを阱よりひきあげ銀二十枚にてヨセフをイシマエル人に賣り彼等すなはちヨセフをエジプトにたづさへゆきぬ
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
29 茲にルベンかへりて阱にいたり見しにヨセフ阱にをらざりしかばその衣を裂き
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,
30 兄弟の許にかへりて言ふ童子はをらず嗚呼我何處にゆくべきや
returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
31 斯て彼等ヨセフの衣をとり牡山羊の羔をころしてその衣を血に濡し
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
32 その綵る衣を父におくり遣していひけるは我等これを得たりなんぢの子の衣なるや否を知れと
They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
33 父これを知りていふわが子の衣なり惡き獸彼をくらへりヨセフはかならずさかれしならんと
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
34 ヤコブその衣を裂き麻布を腰にまとひ久くその子のためになげけり
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him. (Sheol h7585)
36 偖ミデアン人はエジプトにてパロの侍衞の長ポテパルにヨセフを賣り
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
