創世記 33
1 爰にヤコブ目をあげて視にエサウ四百人をひきゐて來りしかば則ち子等を分ちてレアとラケルと二人の仕女とに付し
And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia, and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids:
2 仕女とその子等を前におきレアとその子等を次におきラケルとヨセフを後におきて
And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.
3 自彼等の前に進み七度身を地にかがめて遂に兄に近づきけるに
And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times until his brother came near.
4 エサウ趨てこれを迎へ抱きてその頸をかかへて之に接吻すしかして二人ともに啼泣り
Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.
5 エサウ目をあげて婦人と子等を見ていひけるは是等の汝とともなる者は誰なるやヤコブいひけるは神が僕に授けたまひし子なりと
And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me thy servant.
6 時に仕女等その子とともに近よりて拜し
Then the handmaids and their children came near, and bowed themselves.
7 レアも亦その子とともに近よりて拜す其後にヨセフとラケルちかよりて拜す
Lia also with her children came near, and bowed down in like manner, and last of all Joseph and Rachel bowed down.
8 エサウ又いひけるは我あへる此諸の群は何のためなるやヤコブいふ主の目の前に恩を獲んがためなり
And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favour before my lord.
9 エサウいひけるは弟よわが有ところの者は足り汝の所有は汝自ら之を有てよ
But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is thine for thyself.
10 ヤコブいひけるは否我もし汝の目の前に恩をえたらんには請ふわが手よりこの禮物を受よ我汝の面をみるに神の面をみるがごとくなり汝また我をよろこぶ
And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found favour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have seen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be gracious to me,
11 神我をめぐみたまひて我が有ところの者足りされば請ふわが汝にたてまつる禮物を受よと彼に強ければ終に受たり
And take the blessing, which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his brother’s earnest pressing him,
12 エサウいひけるは我等いでたちてゆかん我汝にさきだつべし
And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey.
13 ヤコブ彼にいひけるは主のしりたまふごとく子等は幼弱し又子を持る羊と牛と我にしたがふ若一日これを驅すごさば群みな死ん
And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.
14 請ふわが主僕にさきだちて進みたまへ我はわが前にゆくところの家畜と子女に足にまかせて徐に導きすすみセイルにてわが主に詣らん
May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.
15 エサウいひけるは然ば我わがひきゐる人數人を汝の所にのこさんヤコブいひけるは何ぞ此を須んや我をして主の目の前に恩を得せしめよ
Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favour, my lord, in thy sight.
16 是に於てエサウは此日その途にしたがひてセイルに還りぬ
So Esau returned, that day, the way that he came, to Seir.
17 斯てヤコブ、スコテに進みて己のために家を建て又家畜のために廬を作れり是によりて其處の名をスコテ（廬）といふ
And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house, and pitched tents, he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.
18 ヤコブ、パダンアラムより來りて恙なくカナンの地にあるシケムの邑に至り邑の前にその天幕を張り
And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town:
19 遂にその天幕をはりしところの野をシケムの父ハモルの子等の手により金百枚にて購とり
And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem for a hundred lambs.
20 彼處に壇をきづきて之をエル、エロヘ、イスラエル（イスラエルの神なる神）となづけたり
And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.
