ネヘミヤ 記 13

1 その日モーセの書を讀て民に聽しめけるに其中に録して云ふアンモニ人およびモアブ人は何時までも神の會に入べからず

In that day they read in the book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it, that the Ammonites and Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God for ever;

2 是は彼らパンと水とをもてイスラエルの子孫を迎へずして還て之を詛はせんとてバラムを傭ひたりしが故なり斯りしかども我らの神はその呪詛を變て祝福となしたまへりと

because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them: but our God turned the curse into a blessing.

3 衆人この律法を聞てのち雑りたる民を盡くイスラエルより分ち離てり

And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they were separated, [even] every alien in Israel.

4 是より先我らの神の家の室を掌れる祭司エリアシブといふ者トビヤと近くなりたれば

And before this time Eliasib the priest dwelt in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobias;

5 彼のために大なる室を備ふ其室は元來素祭の物乳香器皿および例によりてレビ人謳歌者門を守る者等に與ふる穀物酒油の什一ならびに祭司に與ふる擧祭の物を置し處なり

and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first-fruits of the priests.

6 當時は我ヱルサレムに居ざりき我はバビロンの王アルタシヤスタの三十二年に王の所に往たりしが數日の後王に暇を乞て

But in all this [time] I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Arthasastha king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king;

7 エルサレムに來りエリアシブがトビヤのために爲たる惡事すなはちかれがために神の家の庭に一の室を備へし事を詳悉にせり

and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the mischief which Eliasib had done in the case of Tobias, in making for him a treasury in the court of the house of God.

8 我はなはだこれを憂ひてトビヤの家の器皿をことごとくその室より投いだし

And it appeared very evil to me: so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobias from the treasury.

9 頓て命じてすべての室を潔めさせ而して神の家の器皿および素祭乳香などを再び其處に携へいれたり

And I gave orders, and they purified the treasuries: and I restored thither the vessels of the house of God, [and] the offerings, and the frankincense.

10 我また査べ觀しにレビ人そのうくべき分を與へられざりきこの故に其職務をなす所のレビ人および謳歌者等各々おのれの田に奔り歸りぬ

And I understood that the portion of the Levites had not been given: and they had fled every one to his field, the Levites and the singers doing the work.

11 是において我何故に神の室を棄させしやと言て牧伯等を詰り頓てまたレビ人を招き集めてその故の所に立しめたり

And I strove with the commanders, and said, Wherefore has the house of God been abandoned? and I assembled them, and set them in their place.

12 斯りしかばユダ人みな穀物酒油の什一を府庫に携へ來れり

And all Juda brought a tithe of the wheat and the wine and the oil into the treasuries,

13 その時我祭司シレミヤ學士ザドクおよびレビ人ペダヤを府庫の有司とし之にマツタニヤの子ザツクルの子ハナンを副て庫をつかさどらしむ彼らは忠信なる者と思はれたればなり其職は兄弟等に分配るの事なりき

to the charge of Selemia the priest, and Sadoc the scribe, and Phadaea of the Levites: and next to them [was] Anan the son of Zacchur, son of Matthanias; for they were accounted faithful: [it was] their office to distribute to their brethren.

14 わが神よ此事のために我を記念たまへ我神の室とその職事のために我が行ひし善事を拭ひ去たまはざれ

Remember me, O God, in this, and let not my kindness be forgotten which I have wrought in [regard to] the house of the Lord God.

15 當時われ觀しにユダの中にて安息日に酒榨を踏む者あり麥束を持きたりて驢馬に負するあり亦酒葡萄無花果および各種の荷を安息日にヱルサレムに携へいるるあり我かれらが食物を鬻ぎをる日に彼らを戒しめたり

In those days I saw in Juda [men] treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs, and every [kind of] burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day:

16 彼處にまたツロの人々も住をりしが魚および各種の貨物を携へいりて安息日にユダの人々に之を鬻ぎかつヱルサレムにて商賣せり

and I testified in the day of their sale. Also their dwelt in it [men] bringing fish, and selling every [kind of] merchandise to the children of Juda and in Jerusalem on the sabbath.

17 是において我ユダの貴き人々を詰りて之に言ふ汝ら何ぞ此惡き事をなして安息日を瀆すや

And I strove with the free children of Juda, and said to them, What [is] this evil thing which ye do, and profane the sabbath-day?

18 汝らの先祖等も斯おこなはざりしや我らの神これが爲にこの一切の災禍を我らとこの邑とに降したまひしにあらずや然るに汝らは安息日を瀆して更に大なる震怒をイスラエルに招くなりと

Did not your fathers thus, and our God brought upon them and upon us and upon this city all these evils? and do ye bring additional wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath?

19 而して安息日の前の日ヱルサレムの門々暗くならんとする頃ほひに我命じてその扉を閉させ安息日の過さるまで之を開くべからずと命じ我僕數人を門々に置て安息日に荷を携へいるる事なからしめたり

And it came to pass, when the gates were set up in Jerusalem, before the sabbath, that I spoke, and they shut the gates; and I gave orders that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and I set [some] of my servants at the gates, that none should bring [in] burdens on the sabbath-day.

20 斯りしかば商賣および各種の品を賣る者等一二回ヱルサレムの外に宿れり

So all [the merchants] lodged, and carried on traffic without Jerusalem once or twice.

21 我これを戒めてこれに言ふ汝ら石垣の前に宿るは何ぞや汝等もし重ねて然なさば我なんぢらに手をかけんと其時より後は彼ら安息日には來らざりき

Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why do ye lodge in front of the wall? if ye do so again, I will stretch out my hand upon you. From that time they came not on the sabbath.

22 我またレビ人に命じてその身を潔めさせ來りて門を守らしめて安息日を聖くす我神よ我ために此事を記念し汝の大なる仁慈をもて我を憫みたまへ

and I told the Levites who were purifying themselves, and came and kept the gates, that they should sanctify the sabbath-day. Remember me, O God, for these things, and spare me according to the abundance of thy mercy.

23 當時われアシドド、アンモン、モアブなどの婦女を娶りしユダヤ人を見しに

And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:

24 その子女はアシドドの言語を半雑へて言ひユダヤの言語を言ことあたはず各國の言語を雑へ用ふ

and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language.

25 我彼等を詰りまた詬りその中の數人を撻ちその毛を抜き神を指て誓はしめて言ふ汝らは彼らの男子におのが女子を與ふべからず又なんぢらの男子あるひはおのれ自身のために彼らの女子を娶るべからず

And I strove with them and cursed them; and I smote some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying, ]Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, and ye shall not take of their daughters to your sons.

26 是らの事についてイスラエルの王ソロモンは罪を獲たるに非ずや彼がごとき王は衆多の國民の中にもあらずして神に愛せられし者なり神かれをイスラエル全國の王となしたまへり然るに尚ほ異邦の婦女等はこれに罪を犯さしめたり

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? though there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.

27 然ば汝らが異邦の婦女を娶りこの一切の大惡をなして我らの神に罪を犯すを我儕聽し置べけんや

So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, —to marry strange wives.

28 祭司の長エリアシブの子ヨイアダの一人の子はホロニ人サンバラテの婿なりければ我これを逐出して我を離れしむ

and Elisub the high priest, [one] of the sons of Joada, [being] son-in-law of Sanaballat the Uranite, I chased him away from me.

29 わが神よ彼らは祭司の職を汚し祭司およびレビ人の契約に背きたり彼らのことを忘れたまふ勿れ

Remember them, O God, for their [false] connection with the priesthood, and [the breaking] the covenant of the priesthood, and [for defiling] the Levites.

30 我かく人衆を潔めて異邦の物を盡く棄しめ祭司およびレビ人の班列を立て各々その職務に服せしめ

So I purged them from all foreign connection, and established courses for the priests and the Levites, [every] man according to his work.

31 また人衆をして薪柴の禮物をその定まる期に献げしめかつ初物を奉つらしむ我神よ我を憶ひ仁慈をもて我を待ひたまへ

And the offering of the wood-bearers [was] at certain set times, and in the [times of the] first-fruits. Remember me, O our God, for good.