エズラ記 10

1 エズラ神の室の前に泣伏して禱りかつ懺悔しをる時に男女および兒女はなはだし多くイスラエルの中より集ひて彼の許に聚り來れり すべての民はいたく泣かなしめり

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

2 時にエラムの子ヱヒエルの子シカニヤ答へてエズラに言ふ 我らはわれらの神に對ひて罪を犯し此地の民なる異邦人の婦女を娶れり 然ながら此事につきてはイスラエルに今なほ望あり

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

3 然ば我儕わが主の教晦にしたがひ又我らの神の命令に戰慄く人々の教晦にしたがひて斯る妻をことごとく出し之が産たる者を去んといふ契約を今われらの神に立てん 而して律法にしたがひて之を爲べし

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

4 起よ是事は汝の主どる所なり 我ら汝を助くべし心を強くして之を爲せと

Arise, for the matter belongs to you and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

5 エズラやがて起あがり祭司の長等レビ人およびイスラエルの人衆をして此言のごとく爲んと誓はしめたり 彼ら乃ち誓へり

Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

6 かくてエズラ神の家の前より起いでてエリアシブの子ヨハナンの室に入しが彼處に至りてもパンを食ず水を飮ざりき 是は俘囚より歸り來りし者の愆を憂へたればなり

Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he didn’t eat bread or drink water, for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles.

7 斯てユダおよびヱルサレムに遍ねく宣て俘囚の人々に盡く示して云ふ 汝ら皆ヱルサレムに集まるべし

They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;

8 凡そ牧伯等と長老等の諭言にしたがひて三日の内に來らざる者は皆その一切の所有を取あげられ俘擄人の會より黜けらるべしと

and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and he himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

9 是においてユダとベニヤミンの人々みな三日の内にヱルサレムに集まれり 是は九月にして恰もその月の廿日なりき 民みな神の室の前なる廣塲に坐して此事のためまた大雨のために震ひ慄けり

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

10 時に祭司エズラ起て之に言けるは汝らは罪を犯し異邦の婦人を娶りてイスラエルの愆を増り

Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.

11 然ば今なんぢらのの先祖の神ヱホバに懺悔してその御旨を行へ 即ち汝等この地の民等および異邦の婦人とはなるべしと

Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”

12 會衆みな聲をあげて答へて言ふ 汝が我らに諭せるごとく我儕かならず爲べし

Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.

13 然ど民は衆し 又今は大雨の候なれば我儕外に立こと能はず 且これは一日二日の事業にあらず 其は我らこの事について大に罪を犯したればなり

But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

14 然ば我らの牧伯等この全會衆のために立れよ 凡そ我儕の邑の内にもし異邦の婦人を娶りし者あらば皆定むる時に來るべし 又その各々の邑の長老および裁判人これに伴ふべし 斯して此事を成ば我らの神の烈しき怒つひに我らを離るるあらんと

Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

15 その時立てこれに逆ひし者はアサヘルの子ヨナタンおよびテクワの子ヤハジア而已メシユラムおよびレビ人シヤベタイこれを贊く

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

16 俘囚より歸り來りし者つひに然なし 祭司エズラおよび宗家の長數人その宗家にしたがひて名指して撰ばれ十月の一日より共に坐してこの事を査べ

The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

17 正月の一日に至りてやうやく異邦の婦人を娶りし人々を盡く査べ畢れり

They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

18 祭司の徒の中にて異邦の婦人を娶りし者は即ちヨザダクの子ヱシュアの子等およびその兄弟マアセヤ、エリエゼル、ヤリブ、ゲダリヤ

Amongst the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

19 彼らはその妻を出さんといふ誓をなし已に愆を獲たればとて牡羊一匹をその愆のために獻げたり

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

20 インメルの子孫ハナニおよびゼバデヤ

Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

21 ハリムの子孫マアセヤ、エリヤ、シマヤ、ヱヒエル、ウジヤ

Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.

22 パシユルの子孫エリオエナイ、マアセヤ、イシマエル、ネタンエル、ヨザバデ、エラサ

Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

23 レビ人の中にてはヨザバデ、シメイ、ケラヤ（即ちケリタ）ペタヒヤ、ユダ、エリエゼル

Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

24 謳歌者の中にてはエリアシブ 門を守る者の中にてはシヤルム、テレムおよびウリ

Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

25 イスラエルの中にてはパロシの子孫ラミヤ、エジア、マルキヤ、ミヤミン、エレアザル、マルキヤ、ベナヤ

Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.

26 エラムの子孫マッタニヤ、ゼカリヤ、ヱヒエル、アブデ、ヱレモテ、エリヤ

Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

27 ザットの子孫エリオエナイ、エリアシブ、マッタニヤ、ヱレモテ、ザバデ、アジザ

Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

28 ベバイの子孫ヨハナン、ハナニヤ、ザバイ、アテライ

Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

29 バニの子孫メシユラム、マルク、アダヤ、ヤシュブ、シヤル、ヱレモテ

Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

30 パハテモアブの子孫アデナ、ケラル、ベナヤ、マアセヤ、マッタニヤ、ベザレル、ビンヌイ、マナセ

Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

31 ハリムの子孫エリエゼル、ヱシヤ、マルキヤ、シマヤ、シメオン

Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

32 ベニヤミン、マルク、シマリヤ

Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

33 ハシュムの子孫マッテナイ、マツタタ、ザバデ、エリパレテ、ヱレマイ、マナセ、シメイ

Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

34 バニの子孫マアダイ、アムラム、ウエル

Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,

35 ベナヤ、ベデヤ、ケルヒ

Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

36 ワニヤ、メレモテ、エリアシブ

Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

37 マッタニヤ、マッテナイ、ヤアス

Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu,

38 バニ、ビンヌイ、シメイ

Bani, Binnui, Shimei,

39 シレミヤ、ナタン、アダヤ

Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,

40 マクナデバイ、シヤシヤイ、シヤライ

Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

41 アザリエル、シレミヤ、シマリヤ

Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,

42 シヤルム、アマリヤ、ヨセフ

Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

43 ネボの子孫ヱイエル、マッタテヤ、ザバデ、ゼビナ、イド、ヨエル、ベナヤ

Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah.

44 是みな異邦の婦人を娶りし者なり その婦人の中には子女を産し者もありき

All these had taken foreign wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children.