Genesis 24
1 Abraham was now a very old man. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in many ways.
アブラハム年邁て老たりヱホバ萬の事に於てアブラハムを祝みたまへり
2 One day Abraham said to the chief servant of his household, the man who was in charge of everything Abraham owned, “Put your hand between my thighs to solemnly promise you will do what I tell you.
茲にアブラハム其凡の所有を宰る其家の年邁なる僕に言けるは請ふ爾の手を吾髀の下に置よ
3 Knowing that Yahweh God [who created] the heavens and the earth is listening, promise that you will not get a wife for my son, Isaac, from the women here in Canaan.
我爾をして天の神地の神ヱホバを指て誓はしめん即ち汝わが偕に居むカナン人の女の中より吾子に妻を娶るなかれ
4 Instead, go back to my country and to my relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac from among them.”
汝わが故國に往き吾親族に到りて吾子イサクのために妻を娶れ
5 The servant asked him, “If I find a woman among your relatives, what if she is not willing to come back with me to this land? Shall I take your son back there to the country you came from, [so he can find a wife and live there]?”
僕彼に言けるは倘女我に從ひて此地に來ることを好まざる事あらん時は我爾の子を彼汝が出來りし地に導き歸るべきか
6 Abraham replied to him, “No! Be certain that you don’t take my son there!
アブラハム彼に曰けるは汝愼みて吾子を彼處に携かへるなかれ
7 Yahweh God, who created the heavens, brought me here. He brought me from my father’s household, and from the land where my relatives lived. He spoke to me and made a solemn promise to me, saying, ‘I will give this land [of Canaan] to your descendants.’ He will send an angel who will go there ahead of you, and enable you to get a wife for my son [there and bring her to live here].
天の神ヱホバ我を導きて吾父の家とわが親族の地を離れしめ我に語り我に誓ひて汝の子孫に此地を與へんと言たまひし者其使を遣して汝に先たしめたまはん汝彼處より我子に妻を娶るべし
8 But if the woman you find will not come back with you, you are free to disregard the promise you are making. The only thing that you must not do is to take my son to live there!”
若女汝に從ひ來る事を好ざる時は汝吾此誓を解るべし唯我子を彼處に携へかへるなかれ
9 So the servant put his hand between Abraham’s thighs and made a solemn promise about the matter.
是に於て僕手を其主人アブラハムの髀の下に置て此事について彼に誓へり
10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and loaded them with all kinds of goods that his master gave him to take along. Then he left to go to Aram-Naharaim, [which is in (northern Mesopotamia/Syria)]. He arrived in Nahor city.
斯て僕其主人の駱駝の中より十頭の駱駝を取りて出たてり即ち其主人の諸の佳物を手にとりて起てメソポタミアに往きナホルの邑に至り
11 It was late in the afternoon, at the time when the women go to the well to get water, when he arrived there. He made the camels kneel down near the well, which was outside the city.
其駱駝を邑の外にて井の傍に跪伏しめたり其時は黄昏にて婦女等の水汲にいづる時なりき
12 The servant prayed, “Yahweh God whom my master Abraham worships, enable me to be successful today! Act kindly to my master, Abraham!
斯して彼言けるは吾主人アブラハムの神ヱホバよ願くは今日我にその者を逢しめわが主人アブラハムに恩惠を施し給へ
13 Listen to me. I am standing near a well of water, and the young women of the city are coming to get water.
我この水井の傍に立ち邑の人の女等水を汲に出づ
14 I am asking you this: ‘I will say to some girl, “Please lower your jar so that I may drink some water.” If she says, “Drink some, and I will draw some water [from the well] for your camels, too,” I will know that she is the woman whom you chose to be a wife for your servant, Isaac, and I will know that you have been kind to my master.’”
我童女に向ひて請ふ汝の瓶をかたむけて我に飮しめよと言んに彼答へて飮め我また汝の駱駝にも飮しめんと言ば彼は汝が僕イサクの爲に定め給ひし者なるべし然れば我汝の吾主人に恩惠を施し給ふを知らん
15 Before he finished praying, [amazingly], Rebekah arrived there, carrying a jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s younger brother Nahor.
彼語ふことを終るまへに視よリベカ瓶を肩にのせて出きたる彼はアブラハムの兄弟ナホルの妻ミルカの子ベトエルに生れたる者なり
16 She was very beautiful and still a virgin. She went down to the edge of the well, filled her jar with water, and then came back up.
其童女は觀に甚だ美しく且處女にして未だ人に適しことあらず彼井に下り其瓶に水を盈て上りしかば
17 Abraham’s servant immediately ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”
僕はせゆきて之にあひ請ふ我をして汝の瓶より少許の水を飮しめよといひけるに
18 She replied, “Drink some, sir!” She lowered her jar from her shoulder to her hands and gave him a drink.
彼主よ飮たまへといひて乃ち急ぎ其瓶を手におろして之にのましめたりしが
19 After she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also get some water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
飮せをはりて言ふ汝の駱駝のためにも其飮をはるまで水を汲て飽しめん
20 She quickly emptied the water in her jar into the trough [for giving water to animals], and then ran back to the well, and kept getting water for all the camels.
急ぎて其瓶を水鉢にあけ又汲んとて井にはせゆき其諸の駱駝のために汲みたり
21 The servant just watched her, without saying anything. He wanted to know if Yahweh had caused his trip to be successful or not.
其人之を見つめヱホバが其途に幸福をくだしたまふや否やをしらんとして默し居たり
22 Finally, after the camels finished drinking, the servant took out a gold nose ring that weighed (two ounces/6 grams), and two large gold bracelets for her arms, and gave them to Rebekah [and told her to put them on].
茲に駱駝飮をはりしかば其人重半シケルの金の鼻環一箇と重十シケルの金の手釧二箇をとりて
23 Then he said, “Tell me whose daughter you are. Also, tell me, is there room in your father’s house for me and my men to sleep there tonight?”
言けるは汝は誰の女なるや請ふ我に告よ汝の父の家に我等が宿る隙地ありや
24 She replied, “My father’s name is Bethuel. He is the son of Nahor and his wife Milcah.
女彼に曰けるは我はミルカがナホルに生みたる子ベトエルの女なり
25 Yes, we have room where you all can sleep tonight, and we also have plenty of straw and grain to feed the camels.”
又彼にいひけるは家には藁も飼草も多くあり且宿る隙地もあり
26 The servant bowed and worshiped Yahweh.
是に於て其人伏てヱホバを拜み
27 He said, “I thank you, Yahweh God, whom my master Abraham worships. You have continued to be kind and faithful to my master. You led me on this journey straight/directly to the house of my master’s relatives!”
言けるは吾主人アブラハムの神ヱホバは讃美べきかなわが主人に慈惠と眞實とを缺きたまはず我途にありしにヱホバ我を吾主人の兄弟の家にみちびきたまへり
28 The girl ran and told everyone in her mother’s household about what had happened.
茲に童女走行て其母の家に此等の事を告たり
29 Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban went quickly to Abraham’s servant, who was still by the well.
リベカに一人の兄あり其名をラバンといふラバンはせいで井にゆきて其人の許につく
30 He was surprised to have seen the bracelets on his sister’s arms and the nose ring and to have heard Rebekah tell what the man had said to her. So he went out and saw the man standing near the camels, close to the well.
すなはち彼鼻環および其妹の手の手釧を見又其妹リベカが其人斯我に語りといふを聞て其人の所に到り見るに井の側らにて駱駝の傍にたちゐたれば
31 He said to the man, “You who have been blessed by Yahweh, come with me! (Why are standing out here?/You should not keep standing out here!) [RHQ] I have prepared a room for you in the house, and a place for the camels to stay.”
之に言けるは汝ヱホバに祝るる者よ請ふ入れ奚ぞ外にたつや我家を備へ且駱駝のために所をそなへたり
32 So the servant went to the house, and Laban’s servants unloaded the camels, and brought straw and grain for the camels, and water for him and the men with him to wash their feet.
是に於て其人家にいりぬラバン乃ち其駱駝の負を釋き藁と飼草を駱駝にあたへ又水をあたへて其人の足と其從者の足をあらはしめ
33 They set food in front of him for him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I tell you (what I need to tell you/why I have come).” So Laban said, “Tell us!”
斯して彼の前に食をそなへたるに彼言ふ我はわが事をのぶるまでは食はじとラバン語れといひければ
34 So the servant said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
彼言ふわれはアブラハムの僕なり
35 Yahweh has greatly blessed my master so that he has become very rich. Yahweh has given him many sheep and cattle, a lot of gold and silver, male and female servants, camels and donkeys.
ヱホバ大にわが主人をめぐみたまひて大なる者とならしめ又羊牛金銀僕婢駱駝驢馬をこれにたまへり
36 My master’s wife, Sarah, bore a son for him when she was very old, and my master has given to his son everything he owns.
わが主人の妻サラ年老てのちわが主人に男子をうみければ主人其所有を悉く之に與ふ
37 My master made me solemnly promise, saying, ‘Do not get a wife for my son from the women here in Canaan.
わが主人我を誓せて言ふ吾すめるカナンの地の人の女子の中よりわが子に妻を娶るなかれ
38 Instead, go back to my father’s family, to my own clan, and get from them a wife for my son.’
汝わが父の家にゆきわが親族にいたりわが子のために妻をめとれと
39 Then I asked my master, ‘What shall I do if the woman you show me will not come back with me?’
我わが主人にいひけるは倘女我にしたがひて來ずば如何
40 He replied, ‘Yahweh, whom I have always obeyed [MTY], will send his angel with you, and he will cause your journey to be successful, with the result that you can get a wife for my son from my clan, from my father’s family.
彼我にいひけるは吾事ふるところのヱホバ其使者を汝とともに遣はして汝の途に幸福を降したまはん爾わが親族わが父の家より吾子に妻をめとるべし
41 But if my clan refuses to allow her to return with you, you will be freed from being cursed because of not obeying me.’
汝わが親族に至れる時はわが誓を解さるべし若彼等汝にあたへずば汝はわが誓をゆるさるべしと
42 “When I came today to the well, I prayed, ‘Yahweh God whom my master, Abraham worships, if you are willing, please allow this journey of mine to be successful.
我今日井に至りて謂けらくわが主人アブラハムの神ヱホバねがはくはわがゆく途に幸福を降したまへ
43 Listen to me. I am standing beside a well. A young woman may come to draw water. I will say to her, “Please, give me a little water to drink from your jar.”
我はこの井水の傍に立つ水を汲にいづる處女あらん時我彼にむかひて請ふ汝の瓶より少許の水を我にのましめよと言んに
44 If she says to me, “Certainly, drink some! And I will also draw some water for your camels,” that will be the woman whom you have chosen for my master’s son!’
若我に答へて汝飮め我亦汝の駱駝のためにも汲んと言ば是ヱホバがわが主人の子のために定たまひし女なるべし
45 Before I finished praying, [amazingly], Rebekah approached with her water jar on her shoulder. She went down to the well and got some water. I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink!’
我心の中に語ふことを終るまへにリベカ其瓶を肩にのせて出來り井にくだりて水を汲みたるにより我彼に請ふ我にのましめよと言ければ
46 She quickly lowered her jar and said, ‘Drink some! And I will draw water [from the well] for your camels, too.’ So I drank some water, and she also got water for the camels.
彼急ぎ其瓶を肩よりおろしていひけるは飮めまた汝の駱駝にものましめんと是に於て我飮しが彼また駱駝にものましめたり
47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor and his wife, Milcah.’ I had [a ring and bracelets with me, and] I put the ring in her nose and put the bracelets on her arms.
我彼に問て汝は誰の女なるやといひければミルカがナホルに生たる子ベトエルの女なりといふ是に於て我其鼻に環をつけ其手に手釧をつけたり
48 Then I bowed and worshiped Yahweh, and I thanked Yahweh God, the one my master Abraham worships, the one who led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother to be a wife for my master’s son.
而して我伏てヱホバを拜み吾主人アブラハムの神ヱホバを頌美たりヱホバ我を正き途に導きてわが主人の兄弟の女を其子のために娶しめんとしたまへばなり
49 Now, if you are kind and faithful to my master, tell me that you will do what I am asking. If you will not do that, tell me that also, so I may know what to do [MTY].”
されば汝等若わが主人にむかひて慈惠と眞誠をもて事をなさんと思はば我に告よ然ざるも亦我に告よ然ば我右か左におもむくをえん
50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “It is clear that Yahweh has caused this to happen. So we two cannot say anything more.
ラバンとベトエル答て言けるは此事はヱホバより出づ我等汝に善惡を言ふあたはず
51 Rebekah is here in front of you. Take her and go, and let her be a wife for your master’s son, just as Yahweh has indicated.”
視よリベカ汝の前にをる携へてゆき彼をしてヱホバの言たまひし如く汝の主人の子の妻とならしめよ
52 When Abraham’s servant heard these words, he bowed down to the ground to [thank] Yahweh.
アブラハムの僕彼等の言を聞て地に伏てヱホバを拜めり
53 Then the servant brought out silver and gold jewelry and clothes, and gave them to Rebekah. And he gave gifts to her brother Laban and to her mother.
是に於て僕銀の飾品金の飾品および衣服をとりいだしてリベカに與へ亦其兄と母に寶物をあたへたり
54 Then they ate a meal together. The men who were with Abraham’s servant also slept there that night. The next morning, the servant said, “Allow me now to return to my master.”
是に於て彼および其從者等食飮して宿りしが朝起たる時彼言我をして吾主人に還らしめよ
55 But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl remain with us for about ten days. After that, you may take her and go.”
リベカの兄と母言けるは童女を數日の間少くも十日我等と偕にをらしめよしかるのち彼ゆくべし
56 But he replied to them, “Yahweh has made my journey successful, so do not detain me. Let me take her back to my master now!”
彼人之に言ヱホバ吾途に福祉をくだしたまひたるなれば我を阻むるなかれ我を歸してわが主人に往しめよ
57 They said, “Let’s call Rebekah and ask her what she wants to do.” [MTY]
彼等いひけるは童女をよびて其言を問んと
58 So they summoned Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man now?” She replied, “Yes, I will go.”
即ちリベカを呼て之に言けるは汝此人と共に往や彼言ふ往ん
59 So they allowed Rebekah, a woman who had taken care of her when she was very young, Abraham’s servant, and the men who had come with him. to go.
是に於て彼等妹リベカと其乳媼およびアブラハムの僕と其從者を遣り去しめたり
60 Before they all left, they [asked God to] bless Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, we ask that Yahweh will cause you to have millions of descendants, and allow them to completely defeat [MET] all those that hate them.”
即ち彼等リベカを祝して之にいひけるはわれらの妹よ汝千萬の人の母となれ汝の子孫をして其仇の門を獲しめよ
61 Then Rebekah and her maid servants got ready and got on their camels and went with Abraham’s servant.
是に於てリベカ起て其童女等とともに駱駝にのりて其人にしたがひ往く僕乃ちリベカを導きてさりぬ
62 At that time, Isaac was living in the Negev desert. He had gone there from Beer-Lahai-Roi.
茲にイサク、ラハイロイの井の路より來れり南の國に住居たればなり
63 One evening he went out into the field to meditate as he walked. He looked up and [was surprised to] see some camels coming.
しかしてイサク黄昏に野に出て默想をなしたりしが目を擧て見しに駱駝の來るあり
64 Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got off the camel,
リベカ目をあげてイサクを見駱駝をおりて
65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man who is approaching?” The servant replied, “That is Isaac, my master, [the man you will be marrying].” So she took her veil and covered her face, which was the custom for a woman who was about to be married.
僕にいひけるは野をあゆみて我等にむかひ來る者は何人なるぞ僕わが主人なりといひければリベカ覆衣をとりて身をおほへり
66 The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.
茲に僕其凡てなしたる事をイサクに告ぐ
67 Then Isaac took Rebekah into the tent that belonged to his mother, Sarah, and she became his wife. And he loved her. So Isaac was comforted about his mother’s death.
イサク、リベカを其母サラの天幕に携至りリベカを娶りて其妻となしてこれを愛したりイサクは母にわかれて後茲に慰籍を得たり
