< 創世記 13 >
1 アブラムは妻とすべての持ち物を携え、エジプトを出て、ネゲブに上った。ロトも彼と共に上った。
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.
And Abram was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold.
3 彼はネゲブから旅路を進めてベテルに向かい、ベテルとアイの間の、さきに天幕を張った所に行った。
And he went [to the place] whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Baethel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Baethel and Aggai,
4 すなわち彼が初めに築いた祭壇の所に行き、その所でアブラムは主の名を呼んだ。
to the place of the altar, which he built there at first, and Abram there called on the name of the Lord.
5 アブラムと共に行ったロトも羊、牛および天幕を持っていた。
And Lot who went out with Abram had sheep, and oxen, and tents.
6 その地は彼らをささえて共に住ませることができなかった。彼らの財産が多かったため、共に住めなかったのである。
And the land was not large enough for them to live together, because their possessions were great; and the land was not large enough for them to live together.
7 アブラムの家畜の牧者たちとロトの家畜の牧者たちの間に争いがあった。そのころカナンびととペリジびとがその地に住んでいた。
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.
8 アブラムはロトに言った、「わたしたちは身内の者です。わたしとあなたの間にも、わたしの牧者たちとあなたの牧者たちの間にも争いがないようにしましょう。
And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brethren.
9 全地はあなたの前にあるではありませんか。どうかわたしと別れてください。あなたが左に行けばわたしは右に行きます。あなたが右に行けばわたしは左に行きましょう」。
Behold! is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me; if you [go] to the left, I will go to the right, and if you go to the right, I will go to the left.
10 ロトが目を上げてヨルダンの低地をあまねく見わたすと、主がソドムとゴモラを滅ぼされる前であったから、ゾアルまで主の園のように、またエジプトの地のように、すみずみまでよく潤っていた。
And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zogora.
11 そこでロトはヨルダンの低地をことごとく選びとって東に移った。こうして彼らは互に別れた。
And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram lived in the land of Chanaan.
12 アブラムはカナンの地に住んだが、ロトは低地の町々に住み、天幕をソドムに移した。
And Lot lived in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.
13 ソドムの人々はわるく、主に対して、はなはだしい罪びとであった。
But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.
14 ロトがアブラムに別れた後に、主はアブラムに言われた、「目をあげてあなたのいる所から北、南、東、西を見わたしなさい。
And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with your eyes, and behold from the place where you now are northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;
15 すべてあなたが見わたす地は、永久にあなたとあなたの子孫に与えます。
for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your seed for ever.
16 わたしはあなたの子孫を地のちりのように多くします。もし人が地のちりを数えることができるなら、あなたの子孫も数えられることができましょう。
And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if any one is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered.
17 あなたは立って、その地をたてよこに行き巡りなさい。わたしはそれをあなたに与えます」。
Arise and traverse the land, both in the length of it and in the breadth; for to you will I give it, and to your seed for ever.
18 アブラムは天幕を移してヘブロンにあるマムレのテレビンの木のかたわらに住み、その所で主に祭壇を築いた。
And Abram having removed his tent, came and lived by the oak of Mambre, which was in Chebrom, and he there built an altar to the Lord.