民数記 12

1 モーセはエテオピアの女を娶りたりしがそのエテオピアの女を娶りしをもてミリアムとアロン、モーセを謗れり

[Moses’/My older sister] Miriam and [his/my older brother] Aaron were saying this: “Is Moses the only one to whom Yahweh has spoken messages to tell to us [RHQ]? Does Yahweh not speak messages to us two also?” [They told people that] they were saying that because Moses/I had married a woman who was a descendant of the Cush people-group, [but they were really saying that because they (were jealous/did not want Moses/me to be the only leader of the Israeli people)]. But Yahweh heard what they were saying.

2 彼等すなはち言けるはヱホバただモーセによりてのみ語りたまはんやまた我等によりても語り給ふにあらずやとヱホバこれを聞たまへり

3 (モーセはその人と爲温柔なること世の中の諸の人に勝れり)

[The truth was that] Moses/I was very humble. He/I was more humble than anyone else on the earth [and Moses/I had not appointed himself/myself to be their leader].

4 是に於てヱホバ遽にモーセ、アロン及びミリアムに言たまはく汝等三人集會の幕屋に出きたれと三人すなはち出きたりければ

So immediately Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and to Aaron and Miriam. He said, “All three of you must go and stand at the Sacred Tent.” So they/we did that.

5 ヱホバ雲の柱の中にありて降り幕屋の門に立てアロンとミリアムを呼たまひしがかれら二人進みたれば

Then Yahweh descended to the entrance of the tent in a cloud [that resembled a huge white] pillar. He told Aaron and Miriam to step forward, so they did.

6 之に言たまはく汝等わが言を聽け汝らの中にもし預言者あらば我ヱホバ異象において我をこれに知しめまた夢において之と語らん

Then he said to them, “Listen to me! When a prophet is among you, I [usually] reveal myself to him by allowing him to see visions, and I speak to him in dreams.

7 わが僕モーセに於ては然らず彼はわが家に忠義なる者なり

But that is not the way I speak to my servant Moses. I trust that he will lead my people [well].

8 彼とは我口をもて相語り明かに言ひて隠語を用ひず彼はまたヱホバの形を見るなり然るを汝等なんぞわが僕モーセを謗ることを畏れざるやと

So I talk to him face-to-face. I speak to him (clearly/using words that he will understand easily), not using parables. He has even seen what I look like. So you should be afraid to criticize my servant Moses!”

9 ヱホバかれらに向ひ忿怒を發して去たまへり

Yahweh was very angry with Miriam and Aaron, and he left.

10 雲すなはち幕屋をはなれて去ぬその時ミリアムに癩病生じてその身雪のごとく爲りアロン、ミリアムを見かへるに旣に癩病生じをる

When the cloud rose up from the Sacred Tent, Aaron looked at Miriam, and he saw that her skin was [as white] as snow, because she now had leprosy.

11 アロン是においてモーセに言けるは嗟わが主よ我等愚なる事をなして罪を犯したれど願くは其罪を我等に蒙らしむる勿れ

Aaron said to Moses/me, “My master, please do not punish us for this sin that we have foolishly committed.

12 彼をして母の胎より肉半分腐れて死て生れいづる者のごとくならしむる勿れ

Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”

13 モーセすなはちヱホバに呼はりて言ふ嗚呼神よ願くは彼を醫したまへ

So Moses/I cried out to Yahweh, saying, “God, I plead with you to heal her!”

14 ヱホバ、モーセに言たまひけるは彼の父その面に唾する事ありてすら彼は七日の間羞をるべきに非ずや然ば七日の間かれを營の外に禁鎖おきて然る後に歸り入しむべしと

But Yahweh replied, “If her father had [rebuked her for doing something wrong by] spitting in her face, she would have been ashamed for seven days. [She should be ashamed because of what she has done]. So send her outside the camp for seven days. Then [she will not have leprosy any more, and] she may return to the camp.”

15 ミリアムはすなはち七日の間營の外に禁鎖られぬ民はミリアムの歸り入るまで途に進まざりき

So they sent her outside the camp for seven days. (The people/We) did not move [to another location] until she returned.

16 その後民ハゼロテより進みてバランの曠野に營を張り

But after [she returned], they/we left Hazeroth and moved [north] in the Paran Desert and set up their/our tents there.