創世記 9
1 神はノアとその子らとを祝福して彼らに言われた、「生めよ、ふえよ、地に満ちよ。
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
2 地のすべての獣、空のすべての鳥、地に這うすべてのもの、海のすべての魚は恐れおののいて、あなたがたの支配に服し、
All the wild animals on the earth and all the birds, all the creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the fish, will be very afraid [DOU] of you. I have put them under your control.
3 すべて生きて動くものはあなたがたの食物となるであろう。さきに青草をあなたがたに与えたように、わたしはこれらのものを皆あなたがたに与える。
Just as I previously said you could eat green plants for food, now I am saying you can eat everything that lives and moves.
4 しかし肉を、その命である血のままで、食べてはならない。
[It is blood that causes creatures to be alive], therefore you must not eat meat that still has blood in it after the animal is killed. [After you have drained the blood out, you may cook it and eat it].
5 あなたがたの命の血を流すものには、わたしは必ず報復するであろう。いかなる獣にも報復する。兄弟である人にも、わたしは人の命のために、報復するであろう。
I insist that murderers must be executed. Animals that kill people must also be executed. The reason that everyone who murders someone else must be executed is that
6 人の血を流すものは、人に血を流される、神が自分のかたちに人を造られたゆえに。
I made people to be like myself [in many ways]. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, [because he killed someone who is like me].
7 あなたがたは、生めよ、ふえよ、地に群がり、地の上にふえよ」。
As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
8 神はノアおよび共にいる子らに言われた、
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 「わたしはあなたがた及びあなたがたの後の子孫と契約を立てる。
“Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
10 またあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物、あなたがたと共にいる鳥、家畜、地のすべての獣、すなわち、すべて箱舟から出たものは、地のすべての獣にいたるまで、わたしはそれと契約を立てよう。
and with all the living creatures that are with you—including the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals—every living creature on the earth that came out of the boat with you.
11 わたしがあなたがたと立てるこの契約により、すべて肉なる者は、もはや洪水によって滅ぼされることはなく、また地を滅ぼす洪水は、再び起らないであろう」。
This is the promise that I am making to you: I will never again destroy all living creatures by a flood, or destroy everything else on the earth by a flood.”
12 さらに神は言われた、「これはわたしと、あなたがた及びあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物との間に代々かぎりなく、わたしが立てる契約のしるしである。
Then God said to him, “This is the sign to guarantee that I will keep the promise that I am making to you and to all living creatures, a promise that I will keep forever:
13 すなわち、わたしは雲の中に、にじを置く。これがわたしと地との間の契約のしるしとなる。
[From time to time] I will put a rainbow in the sky. It will remind me of my promise that I have made to you and everything on the earth.
14 わたしが雲を地の上に起すとき、にじは雲の中に現れる。
When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
15 こうして、わたしは、わたしとあなたがた、及びすべて肉なるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた契約を思いおこすゆえ、水はふたたび、すべて肉なる者を滅ぼす洪水とはならない。
it will remind me about the promise that I have made to you and all living creatures, my promise that there will never again be a flood that will destroy all living creatures.
16 にじが雲の中に現れるとき、わたしはこれを見て、神が地上にあるすべて肉なるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた永遠の契約を思いおこすであろう」。
Whenever there is a rainbow in the sky, I will see it, and I will think about the promise that I have made to every living creature that is upon the earth, a promise that I will keep forever.”
17 そして神はノアに言われた、「これがわたしと地にあるすべて肉なるものとの間に、わたしが立てた契約のしるしである」。
Then God said to Noah, “The rainbow will be the sign of the promise that I have made to all the creatures that live on the earth.”
18 箱舟から出たノアの子らはセム、ハム、ヤペテであった。ハムはカナンの父である。
The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
19 この三人はノアの子らで、全地の民は彼らから出て、広がったのである。
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 さてノアは農夫となり、ぶどう畑をつくり始めたが、
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 彼はぶどう酒を飲んで酔い、天幕の中で裸になっていた。
[When they later produced grapes, he made wine from the grapes]. One day, when he drank too much of the wine, he became drunk, and he lay naked in his tent.
22 カナンの父ハムは父の裸を見て、外にいるふたりの兄弟に告げた。
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father lying naked in the tent. So he went outside and told his two older brothers what he had seen.
23 セムとヤペテとは着物を取って、肩にかけ、うしろ向きに歩み寄って、父の裸をおおい、顔をそむけて父の裸を見なかった。
Then Shem and Japheth took a large cloth and placed it across their backs, and walked backwards into the tent. They covered their father’s naked body with the cloth. Their faces were turned away from their father, so they did not see him naked.
24 やがてノアは酔いがさめて、末の子が彼にした事を知ったとき、
When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
25 彼は言った、「カナンはのろわれよ。彼はしもべのしもべとなって、その兄弟たちに仕える」。
He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
26 また言った、「セムの神、主はほむべきかな、カナンはそのしもべとなれ。
I will ask God to enlarge the territory that belongs to Japheth, and allow his descendants to live peacefully among the descendants of Shem [MTY].
27 神はヤペテを大いならしめ、セムの天幕に彼を住まわせられるように。カナンはそのしもべとなれ」。
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 ノアは洪水の後、なお三百五十年生きた。
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 ノアの年は合わせて九百五十歳であった。そして彼は死んだ。
He died when he was 950 years old.
