民数記 12
1 モーセはクシの女をめとっていたが、そのクシの女をめとったゆえをもって、ミリアムとアロンはモーセを非難した。
[Moses’/My older sister] Miriam and [his/my older brother] Aaron were saying this: “Is Moses the only one to whom Yahweh has spoken messages to tell to us [RHQ]? Does Yahweh not speak messages to us two also?” [They told people that] they were saying that because Moses/I had married a woman who was a descendant of the Cush people-group, [but they were really saying that because they (were jealous/did not want Moses/me to be the only leader of the Israeli people)]. But Yahweh heard what they were saying.
2 彼らは言った、「主はただモーセによって語られるのか。われわれによっても語られるのではないのか」。主はこれを聞かれた。
3 モーセはその人となり柔和なこと、地上のすべての人にまさっていた。
[The truth was that] Moses/I was very humble. He/I was more humble than anyone else on the earth [and Moses/I had not appointed himself/myself to be their leader].
4 そこで、主は突然モーセとアロン、およびミリアムにむかって「あなたがた三人、会見の幕屋に出てきなさい」と言われたので、彼ら三人は出てきたが、
So immediately Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and to Aaron and Miriam. He said, “All three of you must go and stand at the Sacred Tent.” So they/we did that.
5 主は雲の柱のうちにあって下り、幕屋の入口に立って、アロンとミリアムを呼ばれた。彼らふたりが進み出ると、
Then Yahweh descended to the entrance of the tent in a cloud [that resembled a huge white] pillar. He told Aaron and Miriam to step forward, so they did.
6 彼らに言われた、「あなたがたは、いま、わたしの言葉を聞きなさい。あなたがたのうちに、もし、預言者があるならば、主なるわたしは幻をもって、これにわたしを知らせ、また夢をもって、これと語るであろう。
Then he said to them, “Listen to me! When a prophet is among you, I [usually] reveal myself to him by allowing him to see visions, and I speak to him in dreams.
7 しかし、わたしのしもべモーセとは、そうではない。彼はわたしの全家に忠信なる者である。
But that is not the way I speak to my servant Moses. I trust that he will lead my people [well].
8 彼とは、わたしは口ずから語り、明らかに言って、なぞを使わない。彼はまた主の形を見るのである。なぜ、あなたがたはわたしのしもべモーセを恐れず非難するのか」。
So I talk to him face-to-face. I speak to him (clearly/using words that he will understand easily), not using parables. He has even seen what I look like. So you should be afraid to criticize my servant Moses!”
9 主は彼らにむかい怒りを発して去られた。
Yahweh was very angry with Miriam and Aaron, and he left.
10 雲が幕屋の上を離れ去った時、ミリアムは、らい病となり、その身は雪のように白くなった。アロンがふり返ってミリアムを見ると、彼女はらい病になっていた。
When the cloud rose up from the Sacred Tent, Aaron looked at Miriam, and he saw that her skin was [as white] as snow, because she now had leprosy.
11 そこで、アロンはモーセに言った、「ああ、わが主よ、わたしたちは愚かなことをして罪を犯しました。どうぞ、その罰をわたしたちに受けさせないでください。
Aaron said to Moses/me, “My master, please do not punish us for this sin that we have foolishly committed.
12 どうぞ彼女を母の胎から肉が半ば滅びうせて出る死人のようにしないでください」。
Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”
13 その時モーセは主に呼ばわって言った、「ああ、神よ、どうぞ彼女をいやしてください」。
So Moses/I cried out to Yahweh, saying, “God, I plead with you to heal her!”
14 主はモーセに言われた、「彼女の父が彼女の顔につばきしてさえ、彼女は七日のあいだ、恥じて身を隠すではないか。彼女を七日のあいだ、宿営の外で閉じこめておかなければならない。その後、連れもどしてもよい」。
But Yahweh replied, “If her father had [rebuked her for doing something wrong by] spitting in her face, she would have been ashamed for seven days. [She should be ashamed because of what she has done]. So send her outside the camp for seven days. Then [she will not have leprosy any more, and] she may return to the camp.”
15 そこでミリアムは七日のあいだ、宿営の外で閉じこめられた。民はミリアムが連れもどされるまでは、道に進まなかった。
So they sent her outside the camp for seven days. (The people/We) did not move [to another location] until she returned.
16 その後、民はハゼロテを立って進み、パランの荒野に宿営した。
But after [she returned], they/we left Hazeroth and moved [north] in the Paran Desert and set up their/our tents there.
