創世記 32
1 茲にヤコブその途に進みしが神の使者これにあふ
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 ヤコブこれを見て是は神の陣營なりといひてその處の名をマハナイム（二營）となづけたり
When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 かくてヤコブ己より前に使者をつかはしてセイルの地エドムの野にをる其兄エサウの所にいたらしむ
Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
4 即ち之に命じて言ふ汝等かくわが主エサウにいふべし汝の僕ヤコブ斯いふ我ラバンの所に寄寓て今までとどまれり
He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
5 我牛驢馬羊僕婢あり人をつかはしてわが主に告ぐ汝の前に恩をえんことを願ふなりと
I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in your sight.’”
6 使者ヤコブにかへりて言けるは我等汝の兄エサウの許に至れり彼四百人をしたがへて汝をむかへんとて來ると
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
7 是によりヤコブ大におそれ且くるしみ己とともにある人衆および羊と牛と駱駝を二隊にわかちて
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies.
8 言けるはエサウもし一の隊に來りて之をうたば遺れるところの一隊逃るべし
He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
9 ヤコブまた言けるはわが父アブラハムの神わが父イサクの神ヱホバよ汝嘗て我につげて汝の國にかへり汝の親族に到れ我なんぢを善せんといひたまへり
Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
10 我はなんぢが僕にほどこしたまひし恩恵と眞實を一も受るにたらざるなり我わが杖のみを持てこのヨルダンを濟りしが今は二隊とも成にいたれり
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
11 願くはわが兄の手よりエサウの手より我をすくひいだしたまへ我彼をおそる恐くは彼きたりて我をうち母と子とに及ばん
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.
12 汝は嘗て我かならず汝を惠み汝の子孫を濱の沙の多して數ふべからざるが如くなさんといひたまへりと
You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
13 彼その夜彼處に宿りその手にいりし物の中より兄エサウへの禮物をえらべり
He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:
14 即ち牝山羊二百牡山羊二十牝羊二百牡羊二十
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 乳駱駝と其子三十牝牛四十牡牛十牝の驢馬二十驢馬の子十
thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
16 而して其群と群とをわかちて之を僕の手に授し僕にいひけるは吾に先ちて進み群と群との間を隔ておくべし
He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”
17 又その前者に命じて言けるはわが兄エサウ汝にあひ汝に問て汝は誰の人にして何處にゆくや是汝のまへなる者は誰の所有なるやといはば
He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’
18 汝の僕ヤコブの所有にしてわが主エサウにたてまつる禮物なり視よ彼もわれらの後にをるといふべしと
Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”
19 彼かく第二の者第三の者および凡て群々にしたがひゆく者に命じていふ汝等エサウにあふ時はかくの如く之にいふべし
He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
20 且汝等いへ視よなんぢの僕ヤコブわれらの後にをるとヤコブおもへらく我わが前におくる禮物をもて彼を和めて然るのち其面を觀ん然ば彼われを接遇ることあらんと
You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
21 是によりて禮物かれに先ちて行く彼は其夜陣營の中に宿りしが
So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22 其夜おきいでて二人の妻と二人の仕女および十一人の子を導きてヤボクの渡をわたれり
He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
23 即ち彼等をみちびきて川を渉らしめ又その有る物を渡せり
He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
24 而してヤコブ一人遺りしが人ありて夜の明るまで之と角力す
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25 其人己のヤコブに勝ざるを見てヤコブの髀の樞骨に觸しかばヤコブの髀の樞骨其人と角力する時挫離たり
When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
26 其人夜明んとすれば我をさらしめよといひければヤコブいふ汝われを祝せずばさらしめずと
The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
27 是に於て其人かれにいふ汝の名は何なるや彼いふヤコブなり
He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
28 其人いひけるは汝の名は重てヤコブととなふべからずイスラエルととなふべし其は汝神と人とに力をあらそひて勝たればなりと
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
29 ヤコブ問て請ふ汝の名を告よといひければ其人何故にわが名をとふやといひて乃ち其處にて之を祝せり
Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.
30 是を以てヤコブその處の名をベニエル（神の面）となづけて曰ふ我面と面をあはせて神とあひ見てわが生命なほ存るなりと
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
31 斯て彼日のいづる時にベニエルを過たりしが其髀のために歩行はかどらざりき
The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
32 是故にイスラエルの子孫は今日にいたるまで髀の樞の巨筋を食はず是彼人がヤコブの髀の巨筋に觸たるによりてなり
Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.
