創世記 44
1 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
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
2 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
Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
3 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
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
4 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
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
5 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
Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
6 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
He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
7 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
They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
8 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
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
9 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
With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
10 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
He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
11 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
Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
12 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
He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 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
Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
14 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
Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
15 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
Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
16 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
Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
17 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
He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
18 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
Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
19 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
My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
20 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
We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
21 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
You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
22 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
We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
23 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
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
24 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
When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25 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
Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
26 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
We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27 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
Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28 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
One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ (Sheol h7585)
30 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
Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the grey hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
32 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
For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
33 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
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34 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
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
