創世記 15

1 是等の事の後ヱホバの言異象の中にアブラムに臨て曰くアブラムよ懼るなかれ我は汝の干櫓なり汝の賚は甚大なるべし

Some time later, Abram had a vision in which Yahweh spoke to him and said, “Do not be afraid of (anything/your enemies). I will protect you [MTY], and I will give a great reward.”

2 アブラム言けるは主ヱホバよ何を我に與んとしたまふや我は子なくして居り此ダマスコのエリエゼル我が家の相續人なり

But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will be like a son and inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer from Damascus!”

3 アブラム又言けるは視よ爾子を我にたまはず我の家の子わが嗣子とならんとすと

Abram added, “You have not given me any children, so think about this: A servant in my household will inherit all I own!”

4 ヱホバの言彼にのぞみて曰く此者は爾の嗣子となるべからず汝の身より出る者爾の嗣子となるべしと

Yahweh replied, “No! He will not be the one who will inherit it. Instead, you yourself will be the father of the one who will inherit everything you own.”

5 斯てヱホバ彼を外に携へ出して言たまひけるは天を望みて星を數へ得るかを見よと又彼に言たまひけるは汝の子孫は是のごとくなるべしと

Then Yahweh took Abram outside [of his tent] and said, “Look up at the sky! Can you count the stars? No, you cannot count them because there are so many of them, and your descendants will be as numerous as the stars.”

6 アブラム、ヱホバを信ずヱホバこれを彼の義となしたまへり

Abram believed that what Yahweh said would happen. And because of that, Yahweh considered that Abram was righteous.

7 又彼に言たまひけるは我は此地を汝に與へて之を有たしめんとて汝をカルデアのウルより導き出せるヱホバなり

Yahweh also said to him, “I am Yahweh. I am the one who brought you from Ur in Chaldea land. I brought you here to give you this land to possess.”

8 彼言けるは主ヱホバよ我いかにして我之を有つことを知るべきや

But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can I know for sure that this land will belong to me?”

9 ヱホバ彼に言たまひけるは三歳の牝牛と三歳の牝山羊と三歳の牡羊と山鳩および雛き鴿を我ために取れと

God said to him, “Bring a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old goat to me, and a dove and a pigeon.”

10 彼乃ち是等を皆取て之を中より剖き其剖たる者を各相對はしめて置り但鳥は剖ざりき

So Abram brought all of them and killed them and cut each of the animals in half. He arranged the halves of each one, side by side. But he did not cut the pigeon and dove in half.

11 鷙鳥其死體の上に下る時はアブラム之を驅はらへり

Birds that eat dead flesh came down to eat the carcasses, but Abram shooed them away.

12 斯て日の沒る頃アブラム酣く睡りしが其大に暗きを覺えて懼れたり

As the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep, and suddenly everything around him became dark and frightening.

13 時にヱホバ、アブラムに言たまひけるは爾確に知るべし爾の子孫他人の國に旅人となりて其人々に服事へん彼等四百年のあひだ之を惱さん

Then God said to Abram, “I want you to know that your descendants will become foreigners living in a land that does not belong to them. They will become slaves of the owners of that land. The owners of the land will mistreat them for 400 years.

14 又其服事たる國民は我之を鞫かん其後彼等は大なる財貨を携へて出ん

But then I will punish the people of that country that made them become slaves, and then your descendants will leave that country, taking many possessions with them.

15 爾は安然に爾の父祖の所にゆかん爾は遐齡に逹りて葬らるべし

But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.

16 四代に及びて彼等此に返りきたらん其はアモリ人の惡未だ貫盈ざれば也と

After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now.”

17 斯て日の沒て黒暗となりし時烟と火焔の出る爐其切剖たる物の中を通過り

When the sun had set and it had become dark, [unexpectedly] a blazing torch and a clay pot containing burning coals from which smoke was rising appeared and went between the halves of the animals.

18 是日にヱホバ、アブラムと契約をなして言たまひけるは我此地をエジプトの河より彼大河即ちユフラテ河まで爾の子孫に與ふ

And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, “I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.

19 即ちケニ人ケナズ人カデモニ人

That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,

20 ヘテ人ペリジ人レパイム人

the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,

21 アモリ人カナン人ヱブス人の地是なり

the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”