Nehemiah 12
1 [Many] priests and [other] descendants of Levi returned (from Babylonia/to Jerusalem) with Zerubbabel and Jeshua. They included Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
シヤルテルの子ゼルバベルおよびヱシユアと偕に上りきたりし祭司とレビ人は左のごとしセラヤ、ヱレミヤ、エズラ
2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
アマリヤ、マルク、ハツトシ
3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
シカニヤ、レホム、メレモテ
4 Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah,
イド、ギンネトイ、アビヤ
5 Mijamin, Moadiah, Bilgah,
ミヤミン、マアデヤ、ビルガ
6 Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,
シマヤ、ヨヤリブ、ヱダヤ
7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. All those men were leaders of the priests during the time that Jeshua [was the Supreme Priest].
サライ、アモク、ヒルキヤ、ヱダヤ是等の者はヱシユアの世に祭司およびその兄弟等の長たりき
8 [Some of the other] descendants of Levi who returned were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah. They were in charge of singing songs to thank [God].
またレビ人はヱシユア、ビンヌイ、カデミエル、セレビヤ、ユダ、マツタニヤ、マツタニヤはその兄弟とともに感謝の事を掌どれり
9 Bakbukiah, Unni, and other descendants of Levi formed a choir that stood opposite the other group [and sang in reply to them].
またその兄弟バクブキヤおよびウンノ之と相對ひて職務をなせり
10 Jeshua [who was the Supreme Priest] was the father of Joiakim, who was the father of Eliashib, who was the father of Joiada,
ヱシユア、ヨアキムを生みヨアキム、エリアシブを生みエリアシブ、ヨイアダを生み
11 who was the father of Jonathan, who was the father of Jaddua.
ヨイアダ、ヨナタンを生みヨナタン、ヤドアを生り
12 When Joiakim was the Supreme Priest, these were the leaders of the clans of priests: Meraiah, from [the clan of] Seraiah; Hananiah, from [the clan of] Jeremiah;
ヨアキムの日に祭司等の宗家の長たりし者はセラヤの族にてはメラヤ、ヱレミヤの族にてはハナニヤ
13 Meshullam, from [the clan of] Ezra; Jehohanan, from [the clan of] Amariah;
エズラの族にてはメシユラム、アマリヤの族にてはヨハナン
14 Jonathan, from [the clan of] Malluch; Joseph, from [the clan of] Shecaniah;
マルキの族にてはヨナタンシ、シバニヤの族にてはヨセフ
15 Adna, from [the clan of] Harim; Helkai, from [the clan of] Meremoth/Maraioth;
ハリムの族にてはアデナ、メラヨテの族にてはヘルカイ
16 Zechariah, from [the clan of] Iddo; Meshullam, from [the clan of] Ginnethon;
イドの族にではゼカリヤ、ギンネトン膳良にてはメシユラム
17 Zicri, from [the clan of] Abijah. There was also a leader from [the clan of] Miniamin; Piltai, from [the clan of] Moadiah;
アビヤの族にてはジクリ、ミニヤミンの族モアデヤの族にてはピルタイ
18 Shammua, from [the clan of] Bilgah; Jehonathan, from [the clan of] Shemaiah;
ビルガの族にてはシヤンマ、シマヤの族にてはヨナタン
19 Mattenai, from [the clan of] Joiarib; Uzzi, from [the clan of] Jedaiah;
ヨヤリブの族にてはマツテナイ、ヱダヤの族にてはウジ
20 Kallai, from [the clan of] Sallu/Sallai; Eber, from [the clan of] Amok;
サライの族にてはカライ、アモクの族にてはエベル
21 Hashabiah, from [the clan of] Hilkiah; and Nethanel, from [the clan of] Jedaiah.
ヒルキヤの族にてはハシヤビヤ、ヱダヤの族にてはネタンエル
22 During the years that Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua [were Supreme Priests], they (wrote/kept a list of) the names of the clans who were descendants of Levi. When Darius was the king of Persia, they stopped writing that list.
エリアシブ、ヨイアダ、ヨハナンおよびヤドアの日にレビ人の宗家の長等冊に録さる亦ペルシヤ王ダリヨスの治世に祭司等も然せらる
23 They wrote the names of the leaders of the clans who were descendants of Levi in the Book of Events [in Israel], but they stopped writing those names when Eliashib’s grandson Johanan [was the Supreme Priest].
宗家の長たるレビ人はエリアシブの子ヨハナンの日まで凡て歴代志の書に記さる
24 These are the leaders of the clans [who are] descendants of Levi: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel and others who were divided into two groups. The two groups faced each other, one group replying to the other, during the time that they praised and thanked God. They did that just as King David, the man who served God well, had instructed.
レビ人の長はハシヤビヤ、セレビヤおよびカデミエルの子ヱシユアなりその兄弟等これと相對ひて居る即ち彼らは班列と班列とあひむかひ居り神の人ダビデの命令に本づきて讃美と感謝とをつとむ
25 These singers included Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, and Obadiah. The men who guarded the storerooms close to the gates [of the temple] were Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub.
マツタニヤ、バクブキヤ、オバデヤ、メシユラム、タルモン、アツクブは門を守る者にして門の内の府庫を伺ひ守れり
26 They did that work during the time that Joiakim, who was the son of Jeshua and the grandson of Jehozadak, [was the Supreme Priest, ] and I was the governor, and Ezra was the priest who knew the Jewish laws very well.
是等はヨザダクの子ヱシユアの子ヨアキムの日に在り総督ネヘミヤおよび學士たる祭司エズラの日に在りし者なり
27 When we dedicated the wall around Jerusalem, we summoned the descendants of Levi [who help the priests] from the nearby places where they [were living]. We asked them to [join with us to] celebrate when we dedicated the wall. We wanted them to sing songs to thank [Yahweh] and make music by playing cymbals and harps and other stringed instruments.
ヱルサレムの石垣の落成せし節會に当りてレビ人をその一切の處より招きてヱルサレムに來らせ感附と歌と鐃鈸と瑟と琴とをもて歓喜を盡してその落成の節會を行はんとす
28 We summoned the descendants of Levi who habitually sang together. They came to Jerusalem from nearby areas [where they had settled], and from places around Netophah [town southeast of Jerusalem],
是において謳歌ふ徒輩ヱルサレムの周圍の窪地およびネトパ人の村々より集り來り
29 and from three places [northeast of Jerusalem]—Beth Gilgal [city] and the areas around Geba and Azmaveth. Those singers had built villages to live in near Jerusalem.
またベテギルガルおよびゲバとアズマウテとの野より集り來れりこの謳歌者等はヱルサレムの周圍に己の村々を建たりき
30 [When they came to Jerusalem], the priests and [other] descendants of Levi [who help the priests] performed rituals to cause themselves to be acceptable to God, and then they performed similar rituals to purify the [other] people, the gates, and the wall.
茲に祭司およびレビ人身を潔めまた民および諸の門と石垣とを潔めければ
31 Then I gathered together the leaders of Judah on top of the wall, and I appointed them to lead two large groups to march around the city [on top of the wall], thanking God. [As they faced the city, ] one group walked to the right toward the Dung Gate.
我すなはちユダの牧伯等をして石垣の上に上らしめ又二の大なる隊を作り設けて之に感謝の詞を唱へて並進ましむ即ちその一は糞の門を指て石垣の上を右に進めり
32 Behind their leaders marched Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah.
その後につきて進める者はホシヤヤおよびユダの牧伯の半
33 Behind them marched a group of priests who were blowing trumpets. They were Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah. Next came Zechariah, the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
ならびにアザリヤ、エズラ、メシユラム
ユダ、ベニヤミン、シマヤ、ヱレミヤなりき
又祭司の徒數人喇叭を吹て伴ふあり即ちヨナタンの子ゼカリヤ、ヨナタンはシマヤの子シマヤはマツタニヤの子マツタニヤはミカヤの子ミカヤはザツクルの子ザツクルはアサフの子なり
36 Behind them marched other members of Zechariah’s clan: Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani. They all were playing the same kinds of musical instruments that King David had played [many years previously]. Ezra, the man who knew the Jewish laws very well, marched in front of this group.
またゼカリヤの兄弟シマヤ、アザリエル、ミラライ、ギラライ、マアイ、ネタンエル、ユダ、ハナニ等ありて神の人ダビデの樂器を執り學士エズラこれに先だつ
37 When they reached the Fountain Gate, they went up the steps to David’s City, past his palace, and then to the wall at the Water Gate, on the east side [of the city].
而して彼ら泉の門を経ただちに進みて石垣の上口に於てダビデの城の段階より登りダビデの家の土を過て東の方水の門に至れり
38 The other group of those who were thanking [Yahweh] marched to the left on top of the wall. I followed them with half of the people. [We marched] past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall.
また今一隊の感謝する者は彼らに対ひて進み我は民の半とともにその後に從がへり而して皆石垣の上を行き爐戌樓の上を過て石垣の廣き處にいたり
39 [From there we marched] past Ephraim Gate, Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Hundred Soldiers, to the Sheep Gate. We finished marching near the gate into the temple.
エフライムの門の上を通り舊門を過ぎ魚の門およびハナニエルの戌樓とハンメアの戌樓を過て羊の門に至り牢の門に立どまれり
40 Both the groups reached the temple while they were thanking God. They stood in their places there. The leaders who were with me [also stood with me in our places].
かくて二隊の感謝する者神の室にいりて立り我もそこにたち牧伯等の半われと偕にありき
41 My group included these priests who were [all blowing] trumpets: Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, Hananiah,
また祭司エリアキム、マアセヤ、ミニヤミン、ミカヤ、エリヨエナイ、ゼカリヤ、ハナニヤ等喇叭を執て居り
42 [another] Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers, whose leader was Jezrahiah, sang loudly.
マアセヤ、シマヤ、エレアザル、ウジ、ヨナハン、マルキヤ、エラム、エゼル之と偕にあり謳歌ふ者聲高くうたへりヱズラヒヤはその監督なりき
43 [After we went outside the temple, ] we offered many sacrifices. We men all rejoiced because God had caused us to be very happy. The women and the children also rejoiced. People far away could hear the noise that we made there in Jerusalem.
斯してその日みな大なる犠牲を献げて喜悦を盡せり其は神かれらをして大に喜こび樂ませたまひたればなり婦女小兒までも喜悦り是をもてヱルサレムの喜悦の聲とほくまで聞えわたりぬ
44 On that day, men were appointed {they appointed men} to be in charge of the storerooms where they kept the money that people contributed [for the temple]. They also kept there [the other things that the people contributed—] the tithes and the first part of the grain and fruit that was harvested each year. Those men collected those things from the fields/farms near the cities, and [took them to Jerusalem and] gave them to the priests and the [other] descendants of Levi, as [Moses had said in his] laws that they should do. All the Israeli people were happy about the work that the priests and the descendants of Levi did,
その日府庫のすべての室を掌どるべき人々を撰びて挙祭の品初物および什一など律法に定むるところの祭司とレビ人との分を邑々の田圃に准ひて取あつめてすべての室にいるることを掌どらしむ是は祭司およびレビ人の立て奉ふるをユダ人喜こびたればなり
45 because they performed the rituals to purify things, and the other rituals that God had commanded. The musicians in the temple also did their work as King David and his son Solomon had declared that they should do.
彼らは神の職守および潔齋の職守を勤む謳歌者および門を守る者も然り皆ダビデとその子ソロモンの命令に依る
46 Ever since the time that David had been the king and Asaph had been his chief musician, the musicians had led the people while they sang songs to praise and thank God.
在昔ダビデおよびアサフの日には謳歌者の長一人ありて神に讃美感謝をたてまつる事ありき
47 During the years that Zerubbabel and I governed the Israeli people, they all contributed the food that the singers and temple gatekeepers needed each day. They gave (a tithe/10%) of their crops to the descendants of Levi [who helped the priests], and those descendants of Levi gave (a tithe/10%) of that to [the priests, who were] descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest].
またゼルバベルの日およびネヘミヤの日にはイスラエル人みな謳歌者と門を守る者に日々の分を與へまたレビ人に物を聖別て與ヘレビ人またこれを聖別てアロンの子孫に與ふ
