Genesis 44
1 Joseph ordered his household supervisor, “Fill the men's sacks with as much grain as they can hold and put each man's money at the top of his sack.
茲にヨセフその家宰に命じていふこの人々の嚢にその負うるほど糧食を充せ各人の金をその嚢の口に置れ
2 Then put my special silver cup at the top of the sack of the youngest, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph told him.
またわが杯すなはち銀の杯を彼の少き者の嚢の口に置てその穀物の金子とともにあらしめよと彼がヨセフがいひし言のごとくなせり
3 At sunrise they were sent on their way with their donkeys.
かくて夜のあくるにおよびてその人々と驢馬をかへしけるが
4 They had hardly left the city when Joseph told his household supervisor, “Go after those men, and when you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you paid back good with evil by stealing my master's silver cup?
かれら城邑をいでてなほ程とほからぬにヨセフ家宰にいひけるは起てかの人々の後を追ひおひつきし時之にいふべし汝らなんぞ惡をもて善にむくゆるや
5 This is the cup he personally drinks from, and which he uses for divination. What you've done is really evil!’”
其はわが主がもちひて飮み又用ひて常に卜ふ者にあらずや汝らかくなすは惡しと
6 When he caught up with them, he told them what Joseph had said.
是に於て家宰かれらにおひつきてこの言をかれらにいひければ
7 “My lord, what are you saying?” they replied. “We your servants wouldn't do anything like that!
かれら之にいふ主なにゆゑに是事をいひたまふや僕等きはめてこの事をなさず
8 Remember that we brought back the money we found at the top of our sacks when we returned from Canaan. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
視よ我らの嚢の口にありし金はカナンの地より汝の所にもちかへれり然ば我等いかで汝の主の家より金銀をぬすまんや
9 If any one of us is found with it, he shall die, and all of us will become your slaves.”
僕等の中誰の手に見あたるも其者は死べし我等またわが主の奴隸となるべし
10 “Whatever you say,” the man replied, “but only the one found with it will become my slave since the rest of you will be free of any blame.”
彼いひけるはさらば汝らの言のごとくせん其の見あたりし者はわが奴隸となるべし汝等は咎なしと
11 They all unloaded their sacks and put them on the ground. They each opened their own sacks.
是において彼等急ぎて各その嚢を地におろし各その嚢をひらきしかば
12 The household supervisor searched the sacks, beginning with the oldest and working his way down to the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
彼すなはち索し長者よりはじめて少者にをはるに杯はベニヤミンの嚢にありき
13 The brothers tore their clothes in grief. Then they loaded their sacks back on their donkeys and headed back to the city.
斯有しかば彼等その衣を裂きおのおのその驢馬に荷を負せて邑にかへる
14 Joseph was still at home when Judah and his brothers arrived, and they fell to the ground before him.
しかしてユダとその兄弟等ヨセフの家にいたるにヨセフなほ其處にをりしかばその前に地に伏す
15 “Why did you do this?” Joseph asked. “Don't you know a man like me can find out things through divination?”
ヨセフかれらにいひけるは汝等がなしたるこの事は何ぞや我のごとき人は善く卜ひうる者なるをしらざるや
16 “My lord, what can we say?” Judah replied. “How can we explain this to you? In what way can we prove our innocence? God has exposed the guilt of your servants. My lord, we are your slaves—all of us, including the one who was found with the cup.”
ユダいひけるは我等主に何をいはんや何をのべんや如何にしてわれらの正直をあらはさんや神僕等の罪を摘發したまへり然ば我等およびこの杯の見あたりし者倶に主の奴隸となるべし
17 “I wouldn't do anything like that!” Joseph replied. “Only the man who was found with the cup will become my slave. The rest of you are free to return to your father.”
ヨセフいひけるはきはめて然せじ杯の手に見あたりし人はわが奴隸となるべし汝等は安然に父にかへりのぼるべし
18 Judah came closer and said to him, “If you please, my lord, let your servant just say a word. Please don't become angry with your servant, even though you are as powerful as Pharaoh himself.
時にユダかれに近よりていひけるはわが主よ請ふ僕をして主の耳に一言いふをえせしめよ僕にむかひて怒を發したまふなかれ汝はパロのごとくにいますなり
19 My lord, previously you asked us, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
昔にわが主僕等に問て汝等は父あるや弟あるやといひたまひしかば
20 We told you, my lord, ‘We have an elderly father, and a younger brother, born when our father was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's children left, and his father loves him dearly.’
我等主にいへり我等にわが父あり老人なり又その老年子なる少者ありその兄は死てその母の遺せるは只是のみ故に父これを愛すと
21 Then you ordered us, ‘Bring him here to me so I can see him.’
汝また僕等にいひたまはく彼を我許につれくだり我をして之に目をつくることをえせしめよと
22 We told you, ‘The boy can't leave his father; if he did, his father would die.’
われら主にいへり童子父を離るをえず若父をはなるるならば父死べしと
23 But you told us, ‘If your youngest brother doesn't come with you, you won't see me again.’
汝また僕等にいひたまはく汝らの季の弟汝等とともに下るにあらざれば汝等ふたたたびわが面を見るべからずと
24 So when we went back to your servant, our father, we explained to him everything you had told us.
我等すなはちなんぢの僕わが父の所にかへりのぼりて主の言をこれに告たり
25 However, later on, our father told us, ‘Go back and buy some more food.’
我らの父再びゆきて少許の糧食を買きたれといひければ
26 But we said, ‘There's no way we can go back unless Benjamin our youngest brother goes with us, because we won't be able to see the man if Benjamin isn't with us.’
我らいふ我らくだりゆくことをえずわれらの季の弟われらと共にあらば下りゆくべし其は季の弟われらと共にあるにあらざれば彼人の面をみるをえざればなりと
27 Then my father said to us, ‘You realize that my wife had two sons for me.
なんぢの僕わが父われらにいふ汝らのしるごとく吾妻われに二人を生しが
28 One is no more, ripped to pieces no doubt, for I've never seen him since.
その一人出てわれをはなれたれば必ず裂ころされしならんと思へり我今にいたるまで彼を見ず
29 If you take this one away from me too, and something bad happens to him, you'll send this old man to his grave in grief.’ (Sheol h7585)
なんぢら是をも我側より取ゆかんに若災害是の身におよぶあらば遂にわが白髮をして悲みて墓にくだらしむるにいたらんと (Sheol h7585)
30 So if the boy isn't with us when I go back to my father, whose life depends on the life of the boy,
抑父の生命と童子の生命とは相結びてあれば我なんぢの僕わが父に歸りいたらん時に童子もしわれらと共に在ずば如何ぞや
31 as soon as he sees the boy isn't there he'll die, and we will really send this old man, our father, to his grave in grief. (Sheol h7585)
父童子の在ざるを見ば死るにいたらん然れば僕等なんぢの僕われらの父の白髮をして悲みて墓にくだらしむるなり (Sheol h7585)
32 In fact I gave myself as the guarantee for the boy to my father. I told him, ‘If I don't bring him back to you, then I will always carry the blame!’
僕わが父に童子の事を保ひて我もし是を汝につれかへらずば永久に罪を父に負んといへり
33 So please let me stay here as my lord's slave instead of the boy. Let him go back home with his brothers.
されば請ふ僕をして童子にかはりをりて主の奴隸とならしめ童子をしてその兄弟とともに歸りのぼらしめたまへ
34 For how could I ever go back to my father if the boy wasn't with me? I couldn't stand seeing the anguish that would cause my father.”
我いかでか童子を伴はずして父の許に上りゆくべけん恐くは災害の父におよぶを見ん
