民数記 17
1 ヱホバ、モーセに告て言給はく
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
2 汝イスラエルの子孫に語り之が中よりその各箇の父祖の家にしたがひて杖一本づつを取れ即ちその一切の牧伯等よりその父祖の家に循ひて杖都合十二本を取りその人等の名を各々その杖に書せ
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them a staff, a staff for each father's house, of all their princes according to the houses of their fathers, twelve staves: thou shalt write each one's name upon his staff.
3 レビの杖には汝アロンの名を書せ其はその父祖の家の長たる者各箇杖一本を出すべければなり
And Aaron's name shalt thou write upon the staff of Levi; for one staff shall be for [each] head of their fathers' houses.
4 而して集會の幕屋の中我が汝等に會ふ處なる律法の櫃の前に汝之を置べし
And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
5 我が選める人の杖は芽さん我かくイスラエルの子孫が汝等にむかひて呟くところの怨言をわが前に止むべし
And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his staff shall bud forth; and I will make to cease from before me the murmurings of the children of Israel, that they murmur against you.
6 モーセかくイスラエルの子孫に語りければその牧伯等おのおの杖一本づつを之に付せり即ち牧伯等おのおのその父祖の家にしたがひて一本づつを出したればその杖あはせて十二本アロンの杖もその杖の中にあり
And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their princes gave him a staff, one staff for each prince according to their fathers' houses, twelve staves, and the staff of Aaron was among their staves.
7 モーセその杖を皆律法の幕屋の中にてヱホバの前に置り
And Moses laid the staves before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.
8 斯てその翌日モーセ律法の幕屋にいりて視るにレビの家のために出せるアロンの杖芽をふき蕾をなし花咲て巴旦杏の果を結べり
And it came to pass, when on the morrow Moses went into the tent of the testimony, behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and ripened almonds.
9 モーセその杖をことごとくヱホバの前よりイスラエルの子孫の所に取いだしければ彼ら見ておのおの自分の杖を取り
And Moses brought out all the staves from before Jehovah to all the children of Israel, and they looked and took each one his staff.
10 時にヱホバまたモーセに言たまはく汝アロンの杖を律法の櫃の前に携へかヘり其處にたくはへ置てこの背反者等のために徴とならしめよ斯して汝かれらの怨言を全く取のぞきかれらをして死ざらしむべし
And Jehovah said to Moses, Bring Aaron's staff again before the testimony, to be kept as a token for the sons of rebellion, that thou mayest put an end to their murmurings before me, that they may not die.
11 モーセすなはち然なしヱホバの己に命じたまへる如くせり
And Moses did so: as Jehovah had commanded him, so did he.
12 イスラエルの子孫モーセに語りて曰ふ嗚呼我等は死ん我等は滅びん我等はみな滅びん
And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Lo, we expire, we perish, we all perish.
13 凡そヱホバの幕屋に微にても近く者はみな死るなり我等はみな死斷べき歟
Every one that comes at all near to the tabernacle of Jehovah shall die: shall we then expire altogether?
