民数記 14
1 是において會衆みな聲をあげて叫び民その夜哭あかせり
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 すなはちイスラエルの子孫みなモーセとアロンに對ひて呟き全會衆かれらに言けるは嗚呼我等はエジプトの國に死たらば善りしものを又はこの曠野に死ば善らんものを
All the children of Israel [God prevails] murmured against Moses [Drawn out] and against Aaron [Light-bringer]. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], or that we had died in this wilderness!
3 何とてヱホバ我等をこの地に導きいりて劍に斃れしめんとし我らの妻子をして掠められしめんとするやエジプトに歸ること反て好らずやと
Why does Adonai bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to teshuvah ·completely return· into Egypt [Abode of slavery]?”
4 互に相語り我等一人の長を立てエジプトに歸らんと云り
They said to one another, “Let us make a captain, and let us teshuvah ·completely return· into Egypt [Abode of slavery].”
5 是をもてモーセとアロンはイスラエルの子孫の全會衆の前において俯伏たり
Then Moses [Drawn out] and Aaron [Light-bringer] fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails].
6 時にかの地を窺ひたりし者の中なるヌンの子ヨシユアとヱフンネの子カルブその衣服を裂き
Joshua [Yah Salvation] the son of Nun and Caleb [Dog] the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
7 イスラエルの子孫の全會衆に語りて言ふ我等が行巡りて窺ひたりし地は甚だ善き地なり
They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
8 ヱホバもし我等を悦びたまはば我らをその地に導きいりて之を我等に賜はん是は乳と蜜との流るる地なるぞかし
If Adonai delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
9 唯ヱホバに逆ふ勿れまたその地の民を懼るるなかれ彼等は我等の食物とならん彼等の影となる者は旣に去りかつヱホバわれらと共にいますなり彼等を懼るる勿れ
Only don’t rebel against Adonai, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Adonai is with us. Don’t fear them.”
10 然るに會衆みな石をもて之を撃んとせり時にヱホバの榮光集會の幕屋の中よりイスラエルの全體の子孫に顯れたり
But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The kavod Yahweh ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing· appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel [God prevails].
11 ヱホバすなはちモーセに言たまはく此民は何時まで我を藐視るや我諸の休徴をかれらの中間に行ひたるに彼等何時まで我を賴むことを爲ざるや
Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not trust in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
12 我疫病をもてかれらを撃ち滅し汝をして彼等よりも大なる強き民とならしめん
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
13 モーセ、ヱホバに言けるは汝がその權能をもてこの民をエジプトより導き出したまひし事はエジプト人唯これを聞し而已ならず
Moses [Drawn out] said to Adonai, “Then the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery] will sh'ma ·hear obey· it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
14 また之をこの地に住る民に告たりまた彼等は汝ヱホバがこの民の中に在し汝ヱホバが明かにこれに顯れたまふことを聞きまたその上に汝の雲をりて汝が晝は雲の柱の中にあり夜は火の柱の中にありて之が前に行たまふを聞り
They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· that you Adonai are in the middle of this people; for you Adonai are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 然ば汝もしこの民を一人のごとくに殺したまはば汝の名聲を聞る國人等言ん
Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the fame of you will speak, saying,
16 ヱホバこの民を導きてその之に誓ひたりし地に至ること能はざるが故に之を曠野に殺せりと
‘Because Adonai was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
17 吾主ねがはくは今汝の權能を大ならしめて汝の言たまへる如したまへ
Now please let the power of 'Adonay [Lord] be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
18 汝曾言たまひけらくヱホバは怒ること遅く恩惠深く惡と過とを赦す者また罰すべき者をば必ず赦すことをせず父の罪を子に報いて三四代に及ぼす者と
‘Adonai is slow to anger, and abundant in chesed ·loving-kindness·, forgiving depravity (moral evil) and rebellious breach of relationship; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the depravity (moral evil) of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
19 願くは汝の大なる恩惠をもち汝がエジプトより今にいたるまでこの民を赦しし如くにこの民の惡を赦したまへ
Please pardon the depravity (moral evil) of this people according to the greatness of your chesed ·loving-kindness·, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt [Abode of slavery] even until now.”
20 ヱホバ言たまはく我汝の言にしたがひて之を赦す
Adonai said, “I have pardoned according to your word:
21 然ながら我の活るごとくまたヱホバの榮光の全世界に充わたらん如く
but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the kavod Yahweh ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing·;
22 かのわが榮光および我がエジプトと曠野において行ひし休徴を見ながら斯十度も我を試みて我聲に聽したがはざる人々は
because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt [Abode of slavery] and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not sh'ma ·heard obeyed· my voice;
23 皆かならず我がその先祖等に誓ひし地を見ざるべしまた我を藐視る人々も之を見ざるべし
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
24 但しわが僕カルブはその心異にして我に全く從ひたれば彼の往たりし地に我かれを導きいらんその子孫これを有つに至るべし
But my servant Caleb [Dog], because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
25 アマレキ人とカナン人谷にをれば明日汝等身を轉して紅海の路より曠野に退くべし
Since the Amalekite [Descendant of Man who licks up] and the Canaanite [Descendant of Humbled] dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf [Reed Sea].”
26 ヱホバ、モーセとアロンに告て言たまはく
Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out] and to Aaron [Light-bringer], saying,
27 我この我にむかひて呟くところの惡き會衆を何時まで赦しおかんや我イスラエルの子孫が我にむかひて呟くところの怨言を聞り
“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the murmurings of the children of Israel [God prevails], which they murmur against me.
28 彼等に言へヱホバ曰ふ我は活く汝等が我耳に言しごとく我汝等になすべし
Tell them, ‘As I live, says Adonai, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.
29 汝らの屍はこの曠野に横はらん即ち汝ら核數られたる二十歳以上の者の中我に對ひて呟ける者は皆ことごとく此に斃るべし
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
30 ヱフンネの子カルブとヌンの子ヨシュアを除くの外汝等は我が汝らを住しめんと手をあげて誓ひたりし地に至ることを得ず
surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb [Dog] the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua [Yah Salvation] the son of Nun.
31 汝等が掠められんと言たりし汝等の子女等を我導きて入ん彼等は汝らが顧みざるところの地を知に至るべし
But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
32 汝らの屍はかならずこの曠野に横はらん
But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
33 汝らの子女等は汝らが屍となりて曠野に朽るまで四十年の間曠野に流蕩て汝らの悸逆の罪にあたらん
Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
34 汝らはかの地を窺ふに日數四十日を經たれば其一日を一年として汝等四十年の間その罪を任ひ我が汝らを離たるを知べし
After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your depravities (moral evils), even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
35 我ヱホバこれを言り必ずこれをかの集りて我に敵する惡き會衆に盡く行なふべし彼らはこの曠野に朽ち此に死うせん
I, Adonai, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
36 モーセに遣されてかの地を窺ひに往き還り來りてその地を謗り全會衆をしてモーセに對ひて呟かしめたる人々
The men, whom Moses [Drawn out] sent to spy out the land, who teshuvah ·completely returned·, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
37 即ちその地を惡く言なしたるかの人々は罰をうけてヱホバの前に死り
even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Adonai.
38 但しその地を窺ひに往きたる人々の中ヌンの子ヨシユアとヱフンネの子カルブとは生のこれり
But Joshua [Yah Salvation] the son of Nun, and Caleb [Dog] the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
39 モーセこれらの事をイスラエルの子孫に告ければ民痛く哀み
Moses [Drawn out] told these words to all the children of Israel [God prevails], and the people mourned greatly.
40 朝蚤く起いでて山の嶺に登りて言ふ視よ我儕此にあり率ヱホバの約束したまひし地に上りゆかん我等罪を犯したればなり
They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Adonai has promised: for we have sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·.”
41 モーセ言けるは汝等なんぞ斯ヱホバの命に背くやこの事成就せざるべし
Moses [Drawn out] said, “Why are you disobeying the order of Adonai? You shall not succeed!
42 汝ら上り行く勿れヱホバ汝らの中にいまさざれば恐くは汝らその敵の前に撃破られん
Don’t go up, for Adonai is not among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.
43 アマレキ人とカナン人其處に汝らの前にあれば汝等は劍に斃るるならん汝らヱホバに遵はざりし故にヱホバ汝等と偕に在さざるべしと
For there the Amalekite [Descendant of Man who licks up] and the Canaanite [Descendant of Humbled] are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you turned back from following Adonai, therefore Adonai will not be with you.”
44 然るに彼等自擅に山の嶺に登れり但しヱホバの契約の櫃およびモーセは營を出ざりき
But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Adonai’s covenant and Moses [Drawn out] didn’t depart out of the camp.
45 斯りしかばその山に住るアマレキ人とカナン人下り來てこれを打敗りホルマまで追いたれり
Then the Amalekites [Descendants of Man who licks up] came down, and the Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled] who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
