ヨシュア記 4
1 民が皆、ヨルダンを渡り終った時、主はヨシュアに言われた、
After all the people of the Israeli nation had finished crossing the Jordan [River], Yahweh said to Joshua,
2 「民のうちから、部族ごとにひとりずつ、合わせて十二人を選び、
“When you choose the twelve men, one from each tribe, whom I mentioned previously, tell them to pick up [large] stones from the middle of the Jordan riverbed, where the priests are [still] standing.
3 彼らに命じて言いなさい、『ヨルダンの中で祭司たちが足を踏みとどめたその所から、石十二を取り、それを携えて渡り、今夜あなたがたが宿る場所にすえなさい』」。
Tell them to carry the stones with you and put them down at the place where you will stay tonight.”
4 そこでヨシュアはイスラエルの人々のうちから、部族ごとに、ひとりずつ、かねて定めておいた十二人の者を召し寄せ、
So Joshua chose twelve men, one from each tribe. He called them together, and said to them,
5 ヨシュアは彼らに言った、「あなたがたの神、主の契約の箱の前に立って行き、ヨルダンの中に進み入り、イスラエルの人々の部族の数にしたがって、おのおの石一つを取り上げ、肩にのせて運びなさい。
“Go into the middle of the Jordan riverbed, to [where the priests are standing, holding] the chest that Yahweh, your God, gave you. Each of you must pick up a [large] stone, one for each tribe, [and carry it] on your shoulder [to our camp].
6 これはあなたがたのうちに、しるしとなるであろう。後の日になって、あなたがたの子どもたちが、『これらの石は、どうしたわけですか』と問うならば、
[Then pile them up] to be a memorial for you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’,
7 その時あなたがたは彼らに、むかしヨルダンの水が、主の契約の箱の前で、せきとめられたこと、すなわちその箱がヨルダンを渡った時、ヨルダンの水が、せきとめられたことを告げなければならない。こうして、それらの石は永久にイスラエルの人々の記念となるであろう」。
tell them that the water in the Jordan River was blocked off when the priests were carrying the chest [that contained] the Ten Commandments that Yahweh [gave us]. When the chest was carried into the Jordan [River], the water was blocked off [so that we could cross the riverbed]. These stones will be a memorial for the descendants of us Israeli people forever.”
8 イスラエルの人々はヨシュアが命じたようにし、主がヨシュアに言われたように、イスラエルの人々の部族の数にしたがって、ヨルダンの中から十二の石を取り、それを携えて渡り、彼らの宿る場所へ行って、そこにすえた。
So those Israeli men did what Joshua told them to do. They went and picked up twelve [large] stones from the middle of the Jordan [riverbed], one stone for each of the tribes, just as Yahweh had told Joshua. They carried the stones to their camp and put them down.
9 ヨシュアはまたヨルダンの中で、契約の箱をかく祭司たちが、足を踏みとどめた所に、十二の石を立てたが、今日まで、そこに残っている。
Then Joshua set up twelve [other large] stones [in a pile], in the middle of the Jordan [riverbed], where the priests who carried the chest containing the Ten Commandments were standing. And those stones are still there.
10 箱をかく祭司たちは、主がヨシュアに命じて、民に告げさせられた事が、すべて行われてしまうまで、ヨルダンの中に立っていた。すべてモーセがヨシュアに命じたとおりである。民は急いで渡った。
The priests who carried the chest remained standing in the middle of the Jordan [riverbed] until the people had finished doing everything that Yahweh had commanded Joshua to tell them to do. Those were the same instructions that Moses had given to Joshua. The Israeli people crossed [the riverbed] quickly.
11 民がみな渡り終った時、主の箱と祭司たちとは、民の見る前で渡った。
As soon as all of them had crossed, as the people watched, the priests carried the chest [the rest of the way across the river].
12 ルベンの子孫とガドの子孫、およびマナセの部族の半ばは、モーセが彼らに命じていたように武装して、イスラエルの人々に先立って渡り、
The soldiers of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and of half of the soldiers of the tribe of Manasseh, crossed over ahead of the rest of the Israeli people, carrying their weapons, as Moses had commanded.
13 戦いのために武装したおおよそ四万の者が戦うため、主の前に渡って、エリコの平野に着いた。
As Yahweh was watching, there were about 40,000 of those soldiers, carrying weapons ready for battle, who crossed the riverbed to the plains near Jericho, [ready] to fight.
14 この日、主はイスラエルのすべての人の前にヨシュアを尊い者とされたので、彼らはみなモーセを敬ったように、ヨシュアを一生のあいだ敬った。
On that day, all the people of Israel saw that Yahweh had caused Joshua to be a great leader. And they honored Joshua for the rest of his life, just as they had honored Moses.
15 主はヨシュアに言われた、
Yahweh said to Joshua,
16 「あかしの箱をかく祭司たちに命じて、ヨルダンから上がってこさせなさい」。
“[Now] tell the priests who are carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments to come up from the Jordan [riverbed].”
17 ヨシュアは祭司たちに命じて言った、「ヨルダンから上がってきなさい」。
So Joshua commanded the priests to do that.
18 主の契約の箱をかく祭司たちはヨルダンの中から上がってきたが、祭司たちの足の裏がかわいた地にあがると同時に、ヨルダンの水はもとの所に流れかえって、以前のように、その岸にことごとくあふれた。
Then the priests, carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments that Yahweh [had given to Moses], came up out of the riverbed. And as soon as they walked up out of the riverbed onto the riverbank, the water of the Jordan [River] flowed again, and flooded [over the river banks] as it had done before.
19 民は正月の十日に、ヨルダンから上がってきて、エリコの東の境にあるギルガルに宿営した。
It was on the tenth day of the first month [of that year] that the people crossed over the Jordan [River] and camped at [a place called] Gilgal, on the east side of [the land near] Jericho [city].
20 そしてヨシュアは、人々がヨルダンから取ってきた十二の石をギルガルに立て、
The men [who were carrying] the twelve [large] stones from the Jordan [riverbed brought them to] Joshua, [and he] set them up at Gilgal
21 イスラエルの人々に言った、「後の日にあなたがたの子どもたちが、その父に『これらの石は、どうしたわけですか』とたずねたならば、
Joshua said to the Israeli people, “In the future, when your children and grandchildren ask, ‘(What do these stones [mean/Why are these stones here)]?’,
22 『むかしイスラエルがこのヨルダンを、かわいた地にされて渡ったのだ』と言って、その子どもたちに知らせなければならない。
tell them, ‘We Israeli people crossed the Jordan [River as though we were crossing] on dry ground.
23 すなわちあなたがたの神、主はヨルダンの水を、あなたがたのために干しからして、あなたがたを渡らせてくださった。それはあたかも、あなたがたの神、主が、われわれのために紅海を干しからして、われわれを渡らせてくださったのと同じである。
As we were watching, Yahweh, your God, dried up the river until we had all crossed over. Yahweh, the God whom we worship, did to the Jordan [River] just like he did to the Red Sea, when he caused it to become dry as [our parents] were watching, until they all crossed over it.
24 このようにされたのは、地のすべての民に、主の手に力のあることを知らせ、あなたがたの神、主をつねに恐れさせるためである」。
Yahweh did that in order that all the people-groups of the earth may know that he [MTY] is very powerful, and in order that you may always (be in awe of/revere) Yahweh, your God.’”
