士師記 21
1 イスラエルの人々曾てミヅパにて誓ひ曰けるは我等の中一人もその女をベニヤミンの妻にあたふる者あるべからずと
Now the children of Israel swore in Massephath, saying, No man of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.
2 茲に民ベテルに至り彼處にて夕暮まで神の前に坐り聲を放ちて痛く哭き
And the people came to Baethel, and sat there until evening before God: and they lifted up their voice and wept with a great weeping;
3 言けるはイスラエルの神ヱホバよなんぞイスラエルに斯ること起り今日イスラエルに一の支派の缺るにいたりしやと
and said, Therefore, O Lord God of Israel, has this come to pass, that today one tribe should be counted [as missing] from Israel?
4 而して翌日民蚤に起て其處に壇を築き燔祭と酬恩祭をささげたり
And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose up early, and built there an altar, and offered up whole burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 茲にイスラエルの子孫いひけるはイスラエルの支派の中に誰か會衆とともに上りてヱホバにいたらざる者あらんと其は彼らミヅパに來りてヱホバにいたらざる者の事につきて大なる誓をたてて其人をばかならず死しむべしと言たればなり
And the children of Israel said, Who of all the tribes of Israel, went not up in the congregation to the Lord? for there was a great oath concerning those who went not up to the Lord to Massephath, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
6 イスラエルの子孫すなはち其兄弟ベニヤミンの事を憫然におもひて言ふ今日イスラエルに一の支派絶ゆ
And the children of Israel relented toward Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day one tribe is cut off from Israel.
7 我等ヱホバをさして我らの女をかれらの妻にあたへじと誓ひたれば彼の遺る者等に妻をめとらしめんには如何にすべきや
What shall we do for wives for the rest that remain? whereas we have sworn by the Lord, not to give them of our daughters for wives.
8 又言ふイスラエルの支派の中孰の者かミヅパにのぼりてヱホバにいたらざると而して視るにヤベシギレアデよりは一人も陣營にきたり集會に臨める者なし
And they said, What one [man is there] of the tribes of Israel, who went not up to the Lord to Massephath? and, behold, no man came to the camp from Jabis Galaad to the assembly.
9 即ち民をかぞふるにヤベシギレアデの居民は一人も其處にをらざりき
And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad.
10 是に於て會衆勇士一萬二千を彼處に遣し之に命じて言ふ往て刃をもてヤベシギレアデの居民を撃て婦女兒女をも餘すなかれ
And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the strongest, and they charged them, saying, Go you and strike the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad with the edge of the sword.
11 汝ら斯おこなふべし即ち汝等男人および男と寢たる婦人をば悉く滅し盡すべしと
And this shall you do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man you shall devote [to destruction], but the virgins you shall save alive: and they did so.
12 彼等ヤベシギレアデの居民の中にて四百人の若き處女を獲たり是は未だ男と寢て男しりしことあらざる者なり彼らすなはち之をシロの陣營に曳きたる是はカナンの地にあり
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Selom in the land of Chanaan.
13 斯て全會衆人をやりてリンモンの磐にをるベニヤミン人と語はしめ和睦をこれに宣しめたれば
And all the congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin in the rock Remmon, and invited them to [make] peace.
14 ベニヤミンすなはち其時に歸りきたれり是において彼らヤベシギレアデの婦人の中より生しおきたるところの女子を之にあたへけるが尚足ざりき
And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they [had] save alive of the daughters of Jabis Galaad; and they were content.
15 ヱホバ、イスラエルの支派の中に缺を生ぜしめたまひしに因て民ベニヤミンの事を憫然におもへり
And the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16 會衆の長老等いひけるはベニヤミンの婦女絶たれば彼の遺れる者等に妻をめとらせんには如何すべきや
And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.
17 又言けるはベニヤミンの中の逃れたる者等に產業あらしめん然らばイスラエルに一の支派の消ることなかるべし
And they said, [There must be] an inheritance of them that are escaped of Benjamin; and [so] a tribe shall not be destroyed out of Israel.
18 然ながら我等は我等の女子を彼らの妻にあたふべからず其はイスラエルの子孫誓をなしベニヤミンに妻を與ふる者は詛はれんと言たればなりと
For we shall not be able to give them wives of our daughters, because we swore among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed [is] he that gives a wife to Benjamin.
19 而して言ふ歳々シロにヱホバの祭ありと其處はベテルの北にあたりてベテルよりシケムにのぼるところの大路の東レバナの南にあり
And they said, Behold! now [there is] a feast of the Lord from year to year in Selom, which is on the north of Baethel, eastward on the way that goes up from Baethel to Sychem, and from the south of Lebona.
20 是に於てかれらベニヤミンの子孫に命じて言ふ汝らゆきて葡萄園に伏して窺ひ
And they charged the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
21 若シロの女等舞をどらんと出きたらば葡萄園より出でシロの女の中より各人妻を執てベニヤミンの地に往け
and you shall see; and behold! if there come out the daughters of the inhabitants of Selom to dance in dances, then shall you go out of the vineyards and seize for yourselves every man a wife of the daughters of Selom, and go you into the land of Benjamin.
22 若その父あるひは兄弟來りて我らに愬へなば我らこれに言ふべし請ふ幸に彼らを我らに取せよ我等戰爭の時に皆ことごとくその妻をとりしにあらざればなり汝等今かれらに與へしにあらざれば汝等は罪なしと
And it shall come to pass, when their fathers or their brethren come to dispute with us, that we will say to them, Grant them freely to us, for we have not taken every man his wife in the battle: because you did not give to them according to the occasion, you transgressed.
23 ベニヤミンの子孫すなはちかく行なひその踊れる者等を執へてその中より己の數にしたがひて妻を取り往てその地にかへり邑々を建なほして其處に住り
And the children of Benjamin did so; and they took wives according to their number from the dancers whom they seized: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and lived in them.
24 斯てイスラエルの子孫その時に其處を去て各人その支派に往きその族にいたれり即ち其處より出て各人その地にいたりぬ
And the children of Israel went thence at that time every man to his tribe and his kindred; and they went thence every man to his inheritance.
25 當時はイスラエルに王なかりしかば各人その目に善と見るところを爲り
And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own sight.
