申命記 9
1 イスラエルよ、聞きなさい。あなたは、きょう、ヨルダンを渡って行って、あなたよりも大きく、かつ強い国々を取ろうとしている。その町々は大きく、石がきは天に達している。
“You people of Israel, listen to me! You will soon [HYP] cross the Jordan [River]. In the land that you will enter, there are large cities that have very high walls [around them] that [seem to] [HYP] extend up to the sky. There are people-groups in that land that are more numerous and more powerful than you are.
2 その民は、あなたの知っているアナクびとの子孫であって、大きく、また背が高い。あなたはまた『アナクの子孫の前に、だれが立つことができようか』と人の言うのを聞いた。
Those people are very tall and strong. [Some of them] are giants who are descendants of Anak. You know about them, and you have heard people say that no one [RHQ] can defeat the descendants of Anak.
3 それゆえ、あなたは、きょう、あなたの神、主は焼きつくす火であって、あなたの前に進まれることを知らなければならない。主は彼らを滅ぼし、彼らをあなたの前に屈伏させられるであろう。主があなたに言われたように、彼らを追い払い、すみやかに滅ぼさなければならない。
But I want you to know that Yahweh our God will go ahead of you. He will be like a raging/roaring fire. While you advance, he will defeat and destroy them. As a result, you will quickly be able to expel some of them and kill the others, which is what Yahweh promised that you would do.
4 あなたの神、主があなたの前から彼らを追い払われた後に、あなたは心のなかで『わたしが正しいから主はわたしをこの地に導き入れてこれを獲させられた』と言ってはならない。この国々の民が悪いから、主はこれをあなたの前から追い払われるのである。
“After Yahweh our God has expelled them for you, do not say to yourselves, ‘It is because we are righteous that Yahweh has enabled us to capture this land.’ The truth is that it is because the people in that land are wicked that Yahweh will expel them as you advance.
5 あなたが行ってその地を獲るのは、あなたが正しいからではなく、またあなたの心がまっすぐだからでもない。この国々の民が悪いから、あなたの神、主は彼らをあなたの前から追い払われるのである。これは主があなたの先祖アブラハム、イサク、ヤコブに誓われた言葉を行われるためである。
[I say again that] it is not because you are righteous or because you do things that are righteous that you will enter and capture that land. It is because those people-groups are very wicked that Yahweh our God will expel them as you advance, and because he intends to do what he vowed to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would do.
6 それであなたは、あなたの神、主があなたにこの良い地を与えてこれを得させられるのは、あなたが正しいからではないことを知らなければならない。あなたは強情な民である。
I want you to know that it is not because you are righteous that Yahweh our God is giving you this good/fertile land. I say that because [you are not righteous]; you are a very stubborn [IDM] people.”
7 あなたは荒野であなたの神、主を怒らせたことを覚え、それを忘れてはならない。あなたがたはエジプトの地を出た日からこの所に来るまで、いつも主にそむいた。
“Never forget what your ancestors did in the desert that caused Yahweh our God to become angry. From the day that we left Egypt until the day that we arrived here, you and your ancestors have continually rebelled against him.
8 またホレブにおいてさえ、あなたがたが主を怒らせたので、主は怒ってあなたがたを滅ぼそうとされた。
Even at Sinai [Mountain] your ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry. Because he was very angry, he was ready to get rid of [all of] them.
9 わたしが石の板すなわち主があなたがたと結ばれた契約の板を受けるために山に登った時、わたしは四十日四十夜、山にいて、パンも食べず水も飲まなかった。
When I climbed the mountain to receive from him the stone tablets on which he had written the Ten Commandments that he was giving to them, I stayed there 40 days and nights, and [during that time] I did not eat or drink anything.
10 主は神の指をもって書きしるした石の板二枚をわたしに授けられた。その上には、集会の日に主が山で火の中から、あなたがたに告げられた言葉が、ことごとく書いてあった。
Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written [the commandments] with his own fingers. They were the words/commandments that he had spoken to your ancestors from the fire on that mountain, when they were gathered together [at the bottom of the mountain].
11 すなわち四十日四十夜が終った時、主はわたしにその契約の板である石の板二枚を授け、
“At the end of those 40 days and nights, Yahweh gave me those two stone tablets on which he had written those commandments.
12 そして主はわたしに言われた、『おまえは立って、すみやかにこの所から降りなさい。おまえがエジプトから導き出した民は悪を行ったからである。彼らはわたしが命じた道を早くも離れて、鋳た像を自分たちのために造った』。
But then he said to me, ‘Go down the mountain immediately, because [the people whom you are leading], the people whom you led out of Egypt, have committed a terrible sin! They have very quickly done what I commanded them not to do. They have made for themselves a metal statue [of a calf to worship].’
13 主はまたわたしに言われた、『この民を見るのに、これは強情な民である。
Then Yahweh said to me, ‘I have been watching these people, and I see that they are very stubborn.
14 わたしを止めるな。わたしは彼らを滅ぼし、彼らの名を天の下から消し去り、おまえを彼らよりも強く、かつ大いなる国民としよう』。
So do not try to stop me. I am going to destroy all of them, with the result that no one anywhere will remember (their names [MTY]/that they ever existed). Then I will enable you to become [the ancestor of] a nation that will be more numerous and more powerful than they are.’
15 そこでわたしは身をめぐらして山を降りたが、山は火で焼けていた。契約の板二枚はわたしの両手にあった。
So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying in my hands the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were [written]. Fire was burning all over the mountain.
16 そしてわたしが見ると、あなたがたは、あなたがたの神、主にむかって罪を犯し、自分たちのために鋳物の子牛を造って、主が命じられた道を早くも離れたので、
I looked, and I was shocked to see that your ancestors had committed a [great] sin against Yahweh. They very quickly had begun to do what Yahweh our God had commanded them not to do. They had [requested Aaron to] make for them [a metal image of] a calf [to worship].
17 わたしはその二枚の板をつかんで、両手から投げ出し、あなたがたの目の前でこれを砕いた。
So while they were watching, I lifted up those two stone tablets and threw them [on the ground], and they broke into pieces.
18 そしてわたしは前のように四十日四十夜、主の前にひれ伏し、パンも食べず、水も飲まなかった。これはあなたがたが主の目の前に悪をおこない、罪を犯して主を怒らせたすべての罪によるのである。
Then I (prostrated myself/lay) on the ground in Yahweh’s presence as I had done before, and I did not eat or drink anything for 40 days and nights. I did that because your ancestors had sinned against Yahweh and caused him to become very angry.
19 主は怒りを発し、憤りを起し、あなたがたを怒って滅ぼそうとされたので、わたしは恐れたが、その時もまた主はわたしの願いを聞かれた。
I was afraid/worried that because Yahweh was very angry with them, he would get rid of all of them. [But again I prayed that he would not do that], and again he listened to me [and answered my prayer].
20 主はまた、はなはだしくアロンを怒って、彼を滅ぼそうとされたが、わたしはその時もまたアロンのために祈った。
Yahweh was also very angry with Aaron [for making that golden calf] and was ready to kill Aaron. But at the same time I prayed for Aaron also, [and Yahweh answered my prayer].
21 わたしはあなたがたが造って罪を得た子牛を取り、それを火で焼き、それを撃ち砕き、よくひいて細かいちりとし、そのちりを山から流れ下る谷川に投げ捨てた。
Your ancestors had sinned by [requesting Aaron to] make [a metal statue of] a calf. So I took that statue and [I melted it] in a fire and crushed it and ground it into very tiny pieces [HYP]. Then I threw those tiny pieces into the stream that flowed down the mountain.
22 あなたがたはタベラ、マッサおよびキブロテ・ハッタワにおいてもまた主を怒らせた。
Your ancestors also caused Yahweh to become very angry [by what they did] at [places which they named] Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
23 また主はカデシ・バルネアから、あなたがたをつかわそうとされた時、『上って行って、わたしが与える地を占領せよ』と言われた。ところが、あなたがたはあなたがたの神、主の命令にそむき、彼を信ぜず、また彼の声に聞き従わなかった。
And when we were at Kadesh-Barnea, Yahweh said to your ancestors, ‘Go up and capture the land that I am about to give to you!’ But they rebelled against him. They did not trust him, and they did not obey what he told [MTY] them to do.
24 わたしがあなたがたを知ったその日からこのかた、あなたがたはいつも主にそむいた。
Your ancestors rebelled against Yahweh from the first day that I knew them, [in Egypt].
25 そしてわたしは、さきにひれ伏したように、四十日四十夜、主の前にひれ伏した。主があなたがたを滅ぼすと言われたからである。
So, [as I said], I lay on the ground in Yahweh’s presence for 40 days and nights, because Yahweh had said that he would get rid of your ancestors.
26 わたしは主に祈って言った、『主なる神よ、あなたが大いなる力をもってあがない、強い手をもってエジプトから導き出されたあなたの民、あなたの嗣業を滅ぼさないでください。
And I prayed to Yahweh, saying, ‘Lord God, these people belong to you; do not destroy them. They are people whom you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your very great power. [DOU, MTY]
27 あなたのしもべアブラハム、イサク、ヤコブを覚えてください。この民の強情と悪と罪とに目をとめないでください。
Do not forget [what you promised to] Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please ignore these stubborn and wicked people and the sin that they have committed.
28 あなたがわれわれを導き出された国の人はおそらく、「主は、約束した地に彼らを導き入れることができず、また彼らを憎んだので、彼らを導き出して荒野で殺したのだ」と言うでしょう。
If you do not do that, [and if you get rid of them], the people of Egypt will [hear about it and] say that you were not able to bring them into the land that you promised to give to them. They will say that you took them into the desert only to kill them there because you hated them.
29 しかし彼らは、あなたの民、あなたの嗣業であって、あなたが大いなる力と伸ばした腕とをもって導き出されたのです』。
[Do not forget that] they are your people. [You chose them to] belong to you. You brought them out [from Egypt] by your very great power [DOU, MTY].’”
