創世記 17
1 アブラムの九十九歳の時、主はアブラムに現れて言われた、「わたしは全能の神である。あなたはわたしの前に歩み、全き者であれ。
When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.
2 わたしはあなたと契約を結び、大いにあなたの子孫を増すであろう」。
If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]
3 アブラムは、ひれ伏した。神はまた彼に言われた、
Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
4 「わたしはあなたと契約を結ぶ。あなたは多くの国民の父となるであろう。
“Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
5 あなたの名は、もはやアブラムとは言われず、あなたの名はアブラハムと呼ばれるであろう。わたしはあなたを多くの国民の父とするからである。
And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.
6 わたしはあなたに多くの子孫を得させ、国々の民をあなたから起そう。また、王たちもあなたから出るであろう。
I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
7 わたしはあなた及び後の代々の子孫と契約を立てて、永遠の契約とし、あなたと後の子孫との神となるであろう。
I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.
8 わたしはあなたと後の子孫とにあなたの宿っているこの地、すなわちカナンの全地を永久の所有として与える。そしてわたしは彼らの神となるであろう」。
I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”
9 神はまたアブラハムに言われた、「あなたと後の子孫とは共に代々わたしの契約を守らなければならない。あなたがたのうち
Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.
10 男子はみな割礼をうけなければならない。これはわたしとあなたがた及び後の子孫との間のわたしの契約であって、あなたがたの守るべきものである。
This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 あなたがたは前の皮に割礼を受けなければならない。それがわたしとあなたがたとの間の契約のしるしとなるであろう。
(Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
12 あなたがたのうちの男子はみな代々、家に生れた者も、また異邦人から銀で買い取った、あなたの子孫でない者も、生れて八日目に割礼を受けなければならない。
Every male child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.
13 あなたの家に生れた者も、あなたが銀で買い取った者も必ず割礼を受けなければならない。こうしてわたしの契約はあなたがたの身にあって永遠の契約となるであろう。
It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.
14 割礼を受けない男子、すなわち前の皮を切らない者はわたしの契約を破るゆえ、その人は民のうちから断たれるであろう」。
You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
15 神はまたアブラハムに言われた、「あなたの妻サライは、もはや名をサライといわず、名をサラと言いなさい。
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.
16 わたしは彼女を祝福し、また彼女によって、あなたにひとりの男の子を授けよう。わたしは彼女を祝福し、彼女を国々の民の母としよう。彼女から、もろもろの民の王たちが出るであろう」。
I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”
17 アブラハムはひれ伏して笑い、心の中で言った、「百歳の者にどうして子が生れよう。サラはまた九十歳にもなって、どうして産むことができようか」。
Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”
18 そしてアブラハムは神に言った、「どうかイシマエルがあなたの前に生きながらえますように」。
Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
19 神は言われた、「いや、あなたの妻サラはあなたに男の子を産むでしょう。名をイサクと名づけなさい。わたしは彼と契約を立てて、後の子孫のために永遠の契約としよう。
Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.
20 またイシマエルについてはあなたの願いを聞いた。わたしは彼を祝福して多くの子孫を得させ、大いにそれを増すであろう。彼は十二人の君たちを生むであろう。わたしは彼を大いなる国民としよう。
As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become a great nation.
21 しかしわたしは来年の今ごろサラがあなたに産むイサクと、わたしの契約を立てるであろう」。
But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
22 神はアブラハムと語り終え、彼を離れて、のぼられた。
When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
23 アブラハムは神が自分に言われたように、この日その子イシマエルと、すべて家に生れた者およびすべて銀で買い取った者、すなわちアブラハムの家の人々のうち、すべての男子を連れてきて、前の皮に割礼を施した。
On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.
24 アブラハムが前の皮に割礼を受けた時は九十九歳、
Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
25 その子イシマエルが前の皮に割礼を受けた時は十三歳であった。
and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 この日アブラハムとその子イシマエルは割礼を受けた。
On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
27 またその家の人々は家に生れた者も、銀で異邦人から買い取った者も皆、彼と共に割礼を受けた。
And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
