創世記 45
1 茲にヨセフその側にたてる人々のまへに自ら禁ぶあたはざるに至りければ人皆われを離ていでよと呼はれり是をもてヨセフが己を兄弟にあかしたる時一人も之とともにたつものなかりき
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried: 'Cause every man to go out from me.' And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
2 ヨセフ聲をあげて泣りエジプト人これを聞きパロの家またこれを聞く
And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 ヨセフすなはちその兄弟にいひけるは我はヨセフなりわが父はなほ生ながらへをるやと兄弟等その前に愕き懼れて之にこたふるをえざりき
And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.
4 ヨセフ兄弟にいひけるは請ふ我にちかよれとかれらすなはち近よりければ言ふ我はなんぢらの弟ヨセフなんぢらがエジプトにうりたる者なり
And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near. And he said: 'I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 されど汝等我をここに賣しをもて憂ふるなかれ身を恨るなかれ神生命をすくはしめんとて我を汝等の前につかはしたまへるなり
And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life.
6 この二年のあひだ饑饉國の中にありしが尚五年の間耕すことも穫こともなかるべし
For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
7 神汝等の後を地につたへんため又大なる救をもて汝らの生命を救はんために我を汝等の前に遣したまへり
And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance.
8 然ば我を此につかはしたる者は汝等にはあらず神なり神われをもてパロの父となしその全家の主となしエジプト全國の宰となしたまへり
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God; and He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 汝等いそぎ父の許にのぼりゆきて之にいへ汝の子ヨセフかく言ふ神われをエジプト全國の主となしたまへりわが所にくだれ遲疑なかれ
Hasten ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not.
10 汝ゴセンの地に住べし斯汝と汝の子と汝の子の子およびなんぢの羊と牛並に汝のすべて有ところの者われの近方にあるべし
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast;
11 なほ五年の饑饉あるにより我其處にてなんぢを養はん恐くは汝となんぢの家族およびなんぢの凡て有ところの者匱乏ならん
and there will I sustain thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.
12 汝等の目とわが弟ベニヤミンの目の視るごとく汝等にこれをいふ者はわが口なり
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
13 汝等わがエジプトにて亨る顯榮となんぢらが見たる所とを皆悉く父につげよ汝ら急ぎて父を此にみちびき下るべし
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall hasten and bring down my father hither.'
14 而してヨセフその弟ベニヤミンの頸を抱へて哭にベニヤミンもヨセフの頸をかかへて哭く
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
15 ヨセフ亦その諸の兄弟に接吻し之をいだきて哭く是のち兄弟等ヨセフと言ふ
And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his brethren talked with him.
16 茲にヨセフの兄弟等きたれりといふ聲パロの家にきこえければパロとその臣僕これを悦ぶ
And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying: 'Joseph's brethren are come'; and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 パロすなはちヨセフにいひけるは汝の兄弟に言べし汝等かく爲せ汝等の畜に物を負せ往てカナンの地に至り
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Say unto thy brethren: This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
18 なんぢらの父となんぢらの家族を携へて我にきたれ我なんぢらにエジプトの地の嘉物をあたへん汝等國の膏腴を食ふことをうべしと
and take your father and your households, and come unto me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
19 今汝命をうく汝等かく爲せ汝等エジプトの地より車を取ゆきてなんぢらの子女と妻等を載せ汝等の父を導きて來れ
Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
20 また汝等の器を惜み視るなかれエジプト全國の嘉物は汝らの所屬なればなり
Also regard not your stuff; for the good things of all the land of Egypt are yours.'
21 イスラエルの子等すなはち斯なせりヨセフ、パロの命にしたがひて彼等に車をあたへかつ途の餱糧をかれらにあたへたり
And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
22 又かれらに皆おのおの衣一襲を與へたりしがベニヤミンには銀三百と衣五襲をあたへたり
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver, and five changes of raiment.
23 彼また斯のごとく父に餽れり即ち驢馬十疋にエジプトの嘉物をおはせ牝の驢馬十疋に父の途の用に供ふる穀物と糧と肉をおはせて餽れり
And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way.
24 斯して兄弟をかへして去しめ之にいふ汝等途にて相あらそふなかれと
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed; and he said unto them: 'See that ye fall not out by the way.'
25 かれらエジプトより上りてカナンの地にゆきその父ヤコブにいたり
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father.
26 之につげてヨセフは尚いきてをりエジプト全國の宰となりをるといふしかるにヤコブの心なほ寒冷なりき其はこれを信ぜざればなり
And they told him, saying: 'Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.' And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.
27 彼等またヨセフの己にいひたる言をことごとく之につげたりその父ヤコブ、ヨセフがおのれを載んとておくりし車をみるにおよびて其氣おのれにかへれり
And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
28 イスラエルすなはちいふ足りわが子ヨセフなほ生をるわれ死ざるまへに往て之を視ん
And Israel said: 'It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and see him before I die.'
