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1 主はモーセに言われた、「見よ、わたしはあなたをパロに対して神のごときものとする。あなたの兄弟アロンはあなたの預言者となるであろう。
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Listen [carefully]. [Just like I enabled prophet to speak my messages], I will cause the king [to consider that] you are like a god, and that Aaron is like a prophet.
2 あなたはわたしが命じることを、ことごとく彼に告げなければならない。そしてあなたの兄弟アロンはパロに告げて、イスラエルの人々をその国から去らせるようにさせなければならない。
You must tell everything I command you [to tell to your older] brother Aaron, and he will tell that to the king. He must tell the king to let the Israeli people leave his land.
3 しかし、わたしはパロの心をかたくなにするので、わたしのしるしと不思議をエジプトの国に多く行っても、
But I will make the king stubborn [IDM]. As a result, even though I perform many kinds of (miracles/terrifying things) [DOU] [here] in Egypt,
4 パロはあなたがたの言うことを聞かないであろう。それでわたしは手をエジプトの上に加え、大いなるさばきをくだして、わたしの軍団、わたしの民イスラエルの人々を、エジプトの国から導き出すであろう。
the king will not pay any attention to what you say. Then I will punish [MTY] the people of Egypt [MTY] very severely [MTY], and I will lead/bring the tribes of the Israeli people out of Egypt.
5 わたしが手をエジプトの上にさし伸べて、イスラエルの人々を彼らのうちから導き出す時、エジプトびとはわたしが主であることを知るようになるであろう」。
Then, when I show my great power [MTY] to the Egyptian people and bring the Israeli people out from among them, they will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].”
6 モーセとアロンはそのように行った。すなわち主が彼らに命じられたように行った。
Aaron and Moses/I did what Yahweh told them/us to do. They/We [went and spoke to the king].
7 彼らがパロと語った時、モーセは八十歳、アロンは八十三歳であった。
At that time, Moses/I was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83 years old.
9 「パロがあなたがたに、『不思議をおこなって証拠を示せ』と言う時、あなたはアロンに言いなさい、『あなたのつえを取って、パロの前に投げなさい』と。するとそれはへびになるであろう」。
“If the king says to you, ‘Prove [that God sent] you by performing a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Throw your stick down in front of the king, in order that it may become a snake.’”
10 それで、モーセとアロンはパロのところに行き、主の命じられたとおりにおこなった。すなわちアロンはそのつえを、パロとその家来たちの前に投げると、それはへびになった。
So Aaron and Moses/I went to the king and did what Yahweh had commanded [them/us to do]. Aaron threw his stick down in front of the king and his officials, and it became a snake.
11 そこでパロもまた知者と魔法使を召し寄せた。これらのエジプトの魔術師らもまた、その秘術をもって同じように行った。
Then the king summoned his sorcerers and men who performed magic. They did the same thing, using their magic.
12 すなわち彼らは、おのおのそのつえを投げたが、それらはへびになった。しかし、アロンのつえは彼らのつえを、のみつくした。
They all threw down their sticks, and they became snakes. But Aaron’s stick, [which had become a snake], swallowed up all their sticks!
13 けれども、パロの心はかたくなになって、主の言われたように、彼らの言うことを聞かなかった。
But the king continued to be stubborn [IDM], just as Yahweh had predicted, and he would not pay attention to [what Aaron and Moses/I said].
14 主はモーセに言われた、「パロの心はかたくなで、彼は民を去らせることを拒んでいる。
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “The king is very stubborn [IDM]. He refuses to allow [my] people to go.
15 あなたは、あすの朝、パロのところに行きなさい。見よ、彼は水のところに出ている。あなたは、へびに変ったあのつえを手に執り、ナイル川の岸に立って彼に会い、
So [tomorrow] morning, go to him as he is going down to the [Nile] River [to bathe]. Wait for him at the riverbank. [When he comes out of the water, show] him the stick, the one which became a snake.
16 そして彼に言いなさい、『ヘブルびとの神、主がわたしをあなたにつかわして言われます、「わたしの民を去らせ、荒野で、わたしに仕えるようにさせよ」と。しかし今もなお、あなたが聞きいれようとされないので、
Say to him, ‘Yahweh God, the one [we] Hebrews [worship], sent me to you to tell you to let my people go, in order that they may worship him in the desert. [We told you that], but you have not paid any attention to it.
17 主はこう仰せられます、「これによってわたしが主であることを、あなたは知るでしょう。見よ、わたしが手にあるつえでナイル川の水を打つと、それは血に変るであろう。
[So now] Yahweh says this: “This is the way you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do]. Watch this: I am going to strike the water that is in the Nile [River] with the stick that is in my hand. [When I do that], the water will become blood (OR, [red like] blood [MTY]).
18 そして川の魚は死に、川は臭くなり、エジプトびとは川の水を飲むことをいとうであろう」』と」。
Then the fish in the Nile [River] will die, and the [water in] the river will stink, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile River.”’”
19 主はまたモーセに言われた、「あなたはアロンに言いなさい、『あなたのつえを執って、手をエジプトの水の上、川の上、流れの上、池の上、またそのすべての水たまりの上にさし伸べて、それを血にならせなさい。エジプト全国にわたって、木の器、石の器にも、血があるようになるでしょう』と」。
Yahweh said to Moses/me, “[When you are talking to the king], say to Aaron, ‘Hold your stick out [as though you were holding it] over the water in Egypt—over the rivers, the canals, the ponds, and over the pools of water, in order that [all of it] may become [red like] blood.’ When Aaron does that, there will be blood throughout Egypt, even in wooden jars and in stone jars.”
20 モーセとアロンは主の命じられたようにおこなった。すなわち、彼はパロとその家来たちの目の前で、つえをあげてナイル川の水を打つと、川の水は、ことごとく血に変った。
So Aaron and Moses/I did what Yahweh commanded. As the king and his officials were watching, Aaron lifted up his stick and then struck the water in the Nile [River] with it. And all the water in the river turned [red like] blood.
21 それで川の魚は死に、川は臭くなり、エジプトびとは川の水を飲むことができなくなった。そしてエジプト全国にわたって血があった。
Then all the fish died. And the water stank, with the result that the Egyptians could not drink water from the river. Everywhere in Egypt [the water] became [red like] blood.
22 エジプトの魔術師らも秘術をもって同じようにおこなった。しかし、主の言われたように、パロの心はかたくなになり、彼らの言うことを聞かなかった。
But the men who performed magic did the same thing using their magic. So the king remained stubborn [IDM], and he would not pay attention to what Aaron and Moses/I said, just as Yahweh had predicted.
23 パロは身をめぐらして家に入り、またこのことをも心に留めなかった。
The king turned and went back to his palace, and he did not think any more about it [IDM].
24 すべてのエジプトびとはナイル川の水が飲めなかったので、飲む水を得ようと、川のまわりを掘った。
The Egyptians [HYP] dug [into the ground] near the Nile [River] to get water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
(One week/Seven days) passed after Yahweh caused the water in the Nile [River to become red like blood].