ヨシュア記 2

1 茲にヌンの子ヨシユア、シツテムより潜かに二人の間者を發し之にいひけるは往てかの地およびヱリコを窺ひ探れ乃ち彼ら往て妓婦ラハブと名づくる者の家に入て其處に寝けるが

And Josue the son of Nun sent from Setim two men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land and the city of Jericho. They went and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot named Rahab, and lodged with her.

2 或人ヱリコの王に告て觀よイスラエルの子孫の者この地を探らんとて今宵ここに入きたれりといふ

And it was told the king of Jericho, and was said: Behold there are men come in hither, by night, of the children of Israel, to spy the land.

3 是に於てヱリコの王ラハブに言つかはしけるは汝にきたりて汝の家に入し人を曳いだせ彼らは此全國を探らんとて來れるなり

And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men that came to thee, and are entered into thy house: for they are spies, and are come to view all the land.

4 婦人かのふたりの人を將て之を匿し而して言ふ實にその人々はわが許に來れり然れども我その何處よりか知ざりしが

And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were:

5 黄昏どき門を閉るころに出されり我その人々の何處へ往しかを知ず急ぎその後を追へ然ば之に追及んと

And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went out together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them quickly, and you will overtake them.

6 その實は婦すでにかれらを領て屋葢に升り屋葢の上に列べおきたる麻のなかに之をかくししなり

But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.

7 かくてその人々彼らの後を追ひヨルダンの路をゆきて渡場に赴むけり、かれらの後を追ふ者出るや直に門を閉しぬ

Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that leadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out, the gate was presently shut.

8 二人のもの未だ寝ずラハブ屋背に上りて彼らのもとに來り

The men that were hidden were not yet asleep, when behold the woman went up to them, and said:

9 これに言けるはヱホバこの地を汝らに賜へり我らは甚く汝らを懼る此地の民盡く汝らの前に消亡ん我この事を知る

I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength.

10 其は汝らがエジプトより出來し時ヱホバなんぢらの前にて紅海の水を乾たまひし事および汝らがヨルダンの彼旁にありしアモリ人の二箇の王シホンとオグとになししこと即ちことごとく之を滅ぼしたりし事を我ら聞たればなり

We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea at your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: Sehon and Og whom you slew.

11 我ら之を聞や心怯けなんぢらの故によりて人の魂きえうせたり汝らの神ヱホバは上の天にも下の地にも神たるなり

And hearing these things we were affrighted, and our heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us at your coming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath.

12 然ば請ふ我すでに汝らに恩を施したれば汝らも今ヱホバを指て我父の家に恩をほどこさんことを誓ひて我に眞實の記號を與へよ

Now therefore swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewn mercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father’s house: and give me a true token,

13 又わが父母兄弟姉妹および凡て彼らに屬る者をながらへしめ我らの生命を拯ひて死を免かれしめんことを誓へよ

That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.

14 二人のものこれに言けるは汝ら若しわれらの此事を洩すことなくば我らの生命汝らに代りて死ん又ヱホバわれらに此地を與へたまふ時には我らなんぢに恩を施し眞實を盡さん

They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.

15 是においてラハブ繩をもて彼らを窓より縋おろせり是は其家邑の石垣の上にありてかれ石垣の上に住しによる

Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

16 ラハブかれらに言けるは恐らくは追者なんぢに遇ん汝ら山に往て三日が間そこに隱れをり追者の還るを待て後去ゆくべし

And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.

17 二人のものかれに言けるは汝が我らに誓しし此誓につきては我ら罪を獲じ

And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear:

18 我らが此地に打いらん時は汝我らを縋おろしたりし窓に此一條の赤き紐を結つけ且つ汝の父母兄弟および汝の父の家の眷族を悉く汝の家に聚むべし

If when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren and all thy kindred into thy house.

19 凡て汝の家の門を出て街衢に來る者はその血自身の首に歸すべし我らは罪なし然どもし汝とともに家にをる者に手をくはふることをせばその血は我らの首に歸すべし

Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.

20 將た汝もし我らのこの事を洩さば汝が我らに誓せたる誓に我らあづかることなし

But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall be quit of this oath which thou hast made us swear.

21 ラハブいひけるはなんぢらの言のごとくすべしと斯てかれらを出し去しめて赤き紐を窓に結べり

And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done. And sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window.

22 かれら往て山にいり追來るもののかへるを待て三日が間そこに居れりおひ來れるもの徧ねく彼らを途に尋ねしかども終に獲ざりき

But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three days till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them through all the way, they found them not.

23 而してかの二箇の人は山を下り河を濟りて歸りヌンの子ヨシユアに詣りて其有し事等をつぶさに陳ぶ

And when they were gone back into the city, the spies returned, and came down from the mountain: and passing over the Jordan, they came to Josue the son of Nun, and told him all that befel them.

24 またヨシユアにいふ誠にヱホバこの國をことごとく我らの手に付したまへりこの國の民は皆我らの前に消うせんと

And said: The Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.