創世記 47
1 ヨセフは行って、パロに言った、「わたしの父と兄弟たち、その羊、牛およびすべての持ち物がカナンの地からきて、今ゴセンの地におります」。
Joseph chose five of his [older] brothers to go with him to talk to the king. He introduced his [older] brothers to the king, and then he said, “My father and my [older] brothers [and younger brother] have come from the Canaan region. They have brought all their sheep and goats and cattle and everything else that they own, and they are living now in Goshen region.”
2 そしてその兄弟のうちの五人を連れて行って、パロに会わせた。
3 パロはヨセフの兄弟たちに言った、「あなたがたの職業は何か」。彼らはパロに言った、「しもべらは羊を飼う者です。われわれも、われわれの先祖もそうです」。
The king asked the brothers, “What work do you do?” They replied, “We are shepherds, just as our ancestors were.”
4 彼らはまたパロに言った、「この国に寄留しようとしてきました。カナンの地はききんが激しく、しもべらの群れのための牧草がないのです。どうかしもべらをゴセンの地に住ませてください」。
They also said to him, “We have come here to live for a while in this land, because the famine is very severe in Canaan, and our animals have no (pasture/grass to eat) there. So now, please let us live in the Goshen region.”
5 パロはヨセフに言った、「あなたの父と兄弟たちとがあなたのところにきた。
The king said to Joseph, “I am happy that your father and your [older] brothers [and younger brother] have come to you.
6 エジプトの地はあなたの前にある。地の最も良い所にあなたの父と兄弟たちとを住ませなさい。ゴセンの地に彼らを住ませなさい。もしあなたが彼らのうちに有能な者があるのを知っているなら、その者にわたしの家畜をつかさどらせなさい」。
They can live wherever you want in the whole country of Egypt. Give your father and your brothers the best part of the land. They can live in Goshen. And if you know that any of them have any special ability to work with livestock, have them be in charge of my own livestock, too.”
7 そこでヨセフは父ヤコブを導いてパロの前に立たせた。ヤコブはパロを祝福した。
Then Joseph brought his father Jacob [into the palace] and introduced him to the king. Jacob asked God to bless the king.
8 パロはヤコブに言った、「あなたの年はいくつか」。
Then the king asked Jacob, “How old are you?”
9 ヤコブはパロに言った、「わたしの旅路のとしつきは、百三十年です。わたしのよわいの日はわずかで、ふしあわせで、わたしの先祖たちのよわいの日と旅路の日には及びません」。
Jacob replied, “I have been traveling around for 130 years. I have not lived as long as my ancestors, but my life has been full of troubles.”
10 ヤコブはパロを祝福し、パロの前を去った。
Then Jacob again [asked God to] bless the king, and left him.
11 ヨセフはパロの命じたように、父と兄弟たちとのすまいを定め、彼らにエジプトの国で最も良い地、ラメセスの地を所有として与えた。
[That is how Joseph enabled his father and older] brothers [and younger brother] to start living in Egypt. As the king had commanded, he gave them property in the best part of the land, in [Goshen, which is now called] Rameses.
12 またヨセフは父と兄弟たちと父の全家とに、家族の数にしたがい、食物を与えて養った。
Joseph also provided food for all his father’s family. The amounts that he gave them were according to how many children each of them had.
13 さて、ききんが非常に激しかったので、全地に食物がなく、エジプトの国もカナンの国も、ききんのために衰えた。
There were no crops growing in the whole region, because the famine was very severe. The people of Egypt and Canaan [MTY] became weak because they did not have enough food to eat.
14 それでヨセフは人々が買った穀物の代金としてエジプトの国とカナンの国にあった銀をみな集め、その銀をパロの家に納めた。
Joseph collected all the money that the people in Egypt and Canaan paid for the grain they were buying from him, and he brought the money to the king’s palace.
15 こうしてエジプトの国とカナンの国に銀が尽きたとき、エジプトびとはみなヨセフのもとにきて言った、「食物をください。銀が尽きたからとて、どうしてあなたの前で死んでよいでしょう」。
When the people of Egypt and Canaan had spent all their money for grain, they all kept coming to Joseph and saying, “Please give us some food! If you do not give us grain, we will die [RHQ]! We have used all our money to buy food, and we have no money left!”
16 ヨセフは言った、「あなたがたの家畜を出しなさい。銀が尽きたのなら、あなたがたの家畜と引き替えで食物をわたそう」。
Joseph replied, “Since your money is all gone, bring me your livestock. If you do that, I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”
17 彼らはヨセフの所へ家畜をひいてきたので、ヨセフは馬と羊の群れと牛の群れ及びろばと引き替えで、食物を彼らにわたした。こうして彼はその年、すべての家畜と引き替えた食物で彼らを養った。
So they brought their livestock to Joseph. He gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle, and their donkeys.
18 やがてその年は暮れ、次の年、人々はまたヨセフの所へきて言った、「わが主には何事も隠しません。われわれの銀は尽き、獣の群れもわが主のものになって、われわれのからだと田地のほかはわが主の前に何も残っていません。
The next year they came to him again and said, “We cannot hide this from you: We have no more money, and now our livestock belongs to you. We have only our bodies and our land to give to you. We have nothing else left.
19 われわれはどうして田地と一緒に、あなたの目の前で滅んでよいでしょう。われわれと田地とを食物と引き替えで買ってください。われわれは田地と一緒にパロの奴隷となりましょう。また種をください。そうすればわれわれは生きながらえ、死を免れて、田地も荒れないでしょう」。
(If you do not give us some food, we will die!/Do you want to watch us die?) [RHQ] If you do not give us seeds, our fields will become useless [IDM]. Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we will be the king’s slaves, and he will own the land. Give us seeds that we can plant and grow food, in order that we will not die, and in order that our land will not become like a desert.”
20 そこでヨセフはエジプトの田地をみなパロのために買い取った。ききんがエジプトびとに、きびしかったので、めいめいその田畑を売ったからである。こうして地はパロのものとなった。
So Joseph bought all the farms in Egypt for the king. The people of Egypt each sold their land to him because the famine was very severe, [and they had no other way to get money to buy food]. So all the farms became the king’s farms.
21 そしてヨセフはエジプトの国境のこの端からかの端まで民を奴隷とした。
As a result, Joseph caused all the people from one border of the country to the other to become the king’s slaves.
22 ただ祭司の田地は買い取らなかった。祭司にはパロの給与があって、パロが与える給与で生活していたので、その田地を売らなかったからである。
But he did not buy the priests’ land, because they received food from the king regularly, so the food that the king gave them was enough for them. That is the reason they did not sell their land to him.
23 ヨセフは民に言った、「わたしはきょう、あなたがたとその田地とを買い取って、パロのものとした。あなたがたに種をあげるから地にまきなさい。
Joseph said to the people [who sold themselves and their land to him], “Listen to me! Today I have bought you and your land for the king. So here are seeds for you so that you can plant them in the ground.
24 収穫の時は、その五分の一をパロに納め、五分の四を自分のものとして田畑の種とし、自分と家族の食糧とし、また子供の食糧としなさい」。
But when you harvest the crop, you must give one-fifth of the crop to the king. The rest of the crop you can keep, to be seed to plant in the fields, and to be food for you and your children and for everyone else in your household to eat.”
25 彼らは言った、「あなたはわれわれの命をお救いくださった。どうかわが主の前に恵みを得させてください。われわれはパロの奴隷になりましょう」。
They replied, “You have saved our lives! We want you to be pleased with us. And we will be the king’s slaves.”
26 ヨセフはエジプトの田地について、収穫の五分の一をパロに納めることをおきてとしたが、それは今日に及んでいる。ただし祭司の田地だけはパロのものとならなかった。
So Joseph made a law about all the land in Egypt, stating that one-fifth of the crops that are harvested belongs to the king. That law still exists. Only the land that belonged to the priests did not become the king’s land.
27 さてイスラエルはエジプトの国でゴセンの地に住み、そこで財産を得、子を生み、大いにふえた。
Jacob and his family started to live in Egypt, in the Goshen region. They acquired property there. Many children were born to them there. As a result, their population increased greatly.
28 ヤコブはエジプトの国で十七年生きながらえた。ヤコブのよわいの日は百四十七年であった。
Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years. Altogether he lived 147 years.
29 イスラエルは死ぬ時が近づいたので、その子ヨセフを呼んで言った、「もしわたしがあなたの前に恵みを得るなら、どうか手をわたしのももの下に入れて誓い、親切と誠実とをもってわたしを取り扱ってください。どうかわたしをエジプトには葬らないでください。
When it was almost time for him to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have pleased you, make a solemn promise that you will be kind to me and faithfully do what I am now asking you: When I die, do not bury me here in Egypt.
30 わたしが先祖たちと共に眠るときには、わたしをエジプトから運び出して先祖たちの墓に葬ってください」。ヨセフは言った、「あなたの言われたようにいたします」。
Instead, take my body out of Egypt, and bury it in Canaan where my ancestors are buried.” Joseph replied, “I will do that.”
31 ヤコブがまた、「わたしに誓ってください」と言ったので、彼は誓った。イスラエルは床のかしらで拝んだ。
Jacob said, “(Swear/Solemnly promise) to me that you will do it!” So Joseph swore to do it. Then Jacob turned over in bed, bowed his head, and worshiped God.
