創世記 42

1 ヤコブ、エジプトに穀物あるを見しかばその子等にいひけるは汝等なんぞたがひに面を見あはするや

And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?

2 ヤコブまたいふ我エジプトに穀物ありと聞り彼處にくだりて彼處より我等のために買きたれ然らばわれら生るを得て死をまぬかれんと

I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.

3 ヨセフの十人の兄弟エジプトにて穀物をかはんとて下りゆけり

So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:

4 されどヨセフの弟ベニヤミンはヤコブこれをその兄弟とともに遣さざりきおそらくは災難かれの身にのぞむことあらんと思たればなり

Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

5 イスラエルの子等穀物を買んとて來る者とともに來る其はカナンの地に饑饉ありたればなり

And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

6 時にヨセフは國の總督にして國の凡の人に賣ことをなせりヨセフの兄弟等來りてその前に地に伏て拜す

And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,

7 ヨセフその兄弟を見てこれを知たれども知ざる者のごとくして荒々しく之にものいふ即ち彼等に汝等は何處より來れるやといへば彼等いふ糧食を買んためにカナンの地より來れりと

And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.

8 ヨセフはその兄弟をしりたれども彼等はヨセフをしらざりき

And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.

9 ヨセフその昔に彼等の事を夢たる夢をを憶いだし彼等に言けるは汝等は間者にして此國の隙を窺んとて來れるなり

And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.

10 彼等之にいひけるはわが主よ然らず唯糧食をかはんとて僕等は來れるなり

But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.

11 我等はみな一箇の人の子にして篤實なる者なり僕等は間者にあらず

We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

12 ヨセフ彼等にいひけるは否汝等は此地の隙を窺んとて來れるなり

And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

13 彼等いひけるは僕等は十二人の兄弟にしてカナンの地の一箇の人の子なり季子は今日父とともにをる又一人はをらずなりぬ

But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

14 ヨセフかれらにいひけるはわが汝等につげて汝等は間者なりといひしはこの事なり

He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.

15 汝等斯してその眞實をあかすべしパロの生命をさして誓ふ汝等の末弟ここに來るにあらざれば汝等は此をいづるをえじ

I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

16 汝等の一人をやりて汝等の弟をつれきたらしめよ汝等をば繋ぎおきて汝等の言をためし汝らの中に眞實あるや否をみんパロの生命をさして誓ふ汝等はかならず間者なりと

Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.

17 彼等を皆ともに三日のあひだ幽囚おけり

So he put them in prison three days.

18 三日におよびてヨセフ彼等にいひけるは我神を畏る汝等是なして生命をえよ

And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

19 汝等もし篤實なる者ならば汝らの兄弟の一人をしてこの獄に繋れしめ汝等は穀物をたづさへゆきてなんぢらの家々の饑をすくへ

If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

20 但し汝らの末弟を我につれきたるべしさすればなんぢらの言の眞實あらはれて汝等死をまぬかるべし彼等すなはち斯なせり

And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

21 茲に彼らたがひに言けるは我等は弟の事によりて信に罪あり彼等は彼が我らに只管にねがひし時にその心の苦を見ながら之を聽ざりき故にこの苦われらにのぞめるなり

And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

22 ルベンかれらに對ていひけるは我なんぢらにいひて童子に罪ををかすなかれといひしにあらずや然るに汝等きかざりき是故に視よ亦彼の血をながせし罪をたださると

And Ruben one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy: and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

23 彼等はヨセフが之を解するをしらざりき其は互に通辨をもちひたればなり

And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

24 ヨセフ彼等を離れゆきて哭き復かれらにかへりて之とかたり遂にシメオンを彼らの中より取りその目のまへにて之を縛れり

And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning he spoke to them.

25 而してヨセフ命じてその器に穀物をみたしめ其人々の金を嚢に返さしめ又途の食を之にあたへしむヨセフ斯かれらになせり

And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man’s money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.

26 彼等すなはち穀物を驢馬におはせて其處をさりしが

But they having loaded their asses with the corn, went their way.

27 其一人旅邸にて驢馬に糧を與んとて嚢をひらき其金を見たり其は嚢の口にありければなり

And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack’s mouth;

28 彼その兄弟にいひけるは吾金は返してあり視よ嚢の中にありと是において彼等膽を消し懼れてたがひに神の我らになしたまふ此事は何ぞやといへり

And said to his brethren: My money is given me again, behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?

29 かくて彼等カナンの地にかへりて父ヤコブの所にいたり其身にありし事等を悉く之につげていひけるは

And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:

30 彼國の主荒々しく我等にものいひ我らをもて國を偵ふ者となせり

The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.

31 我ら彼にいふ我等は篤實なる者なり間者にあらず

And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.

32 我らは十二人の兄弟にして同じ父の子なり一人はをらずなり季のは今日父とともにカナンの地にありと

We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.

33 國の主なるその人われらにいひけるは我かくして汝等の篤實なるをしらん汝等の兄弟の一人を吾もとにのこし糧食をたづさへゆきて汝らの家々の饑をすくへ

And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways.

34 しかして汝らの季の弟をわが許につれきたれ然れば我なんぢらが間者にあらずして篤實なる者たるをしらん我なんぢらの兄弟を汝等に返し汝等をしてこの國にて交易をなさしむべしと

And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.

35 茲に彼等その嚢を傾たるに視よ各人の金包その嚢のなかにあり彼等とその父金包を見ておそれたり

When they had told this, they poured out their corn and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being astonished together,

36 その父ヤコブ彼等にいひけるは汝等は我をして子を喪はしむヨセフはをらずなりシメオンもをらずなりたるにまたベニヤミンを取んとす是みなわが身にかかるなり

Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

37 ルベン父に告ていふ我もし彼を汝につれかへらずば吾ふたりの子を殺せ彼をわが手にわたせ我之をなんぢにつれかへらん

And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.

38 ヤコブいひけるはわが子はなんぢらとともに下るべからず彼の兄は死て彼ひとり遺たればなり若なんぢらが行ところの途にて災難かれの身におよばば汝等はわが白髮をして悲みて墓にくだらしむるにいたらん (Sheol h7585)

But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to hell. (Sheol h7585)