Judges 17

1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

ここにエフライムの山の人にて名をミカとよべるものありしが

2 He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May the LORD bless my son!”

その母に言けるは汝かつてその千百枚の銀を取れしことを吾が聞ところにて詛ひて語りしが視よその銀はわが手に在り我之を取るなりと母すなはちわが子よねがはくはヱホバ汝に祝福をたまへと言り

3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

彼千百枚の銀をその母にかへせしかば母いひけらくわれわが子のためにひとつの像を雕みひとつの像を鑄んためにその銀をわが手よりヱホバに納む然ばわれ今之を汝にかへすべしと

4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.

ミカその銀を母にかへせしかば母その銀二百枚をとりて之を鑄物師にあたへてひとつの像をきざませひとつの像を鑄させたり其像はミカの家に在り

5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

このミカといふ人神の殿をもちをりエポデおよびテラピムを造りひとりの子を立ておのが祭司となせり

6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

此ときにはイスラエルに王なかりければ人々おのれの目に是とみゆることをおこなへり

7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

ここにひとりの少者ありてベテレヘムユダに於てユダの族の中にをる彼はレビ人にしてかしこに寓居るなり

8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

この人居べきところをたづねてその邑ベテレヘムユダを去しが遂に旅してエフライムの山にゆきてミカの家にいたりしに

9 Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”

ミカ之にいひけるは汝いづこよ來れるやと彼之にいふ我はベテレヘムユダのレビ人なるが居べきところをたづねに往くものなり

10 Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

ミカ之に言けるは汝われと偕に居りわがために父とも祭司ともなれよ然ばわれ年に銀十枚および衣服食物を汝にあたへんとレビ人すなはち入しが

11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

レビ人つひにその人と偕に居んことを肯ふ是においてその少者はかれの子の一人のごとくなりぬ

12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

ミカ、レビ人なるこの少者をたてて祭司となしたればすなはちミカの家に居る

13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”

ミカここにおいて言ふ今われ知るヱホバわれに恩惠をたまはんそはこのレビ人われの祭司となればなり