Genesis 35

1 [Some time later] God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to worship me, God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your older brother Esau.”

茲に神ヤコブに言たまひけるは起てベテルにのぼりて彼處に居り汝が昔に兄エサウの面をさけて逃る時に汝にあらはれし神に彼處にて壇をきづけと

2 So Jacob said to his household and to all the others who were with him, “Get rid of the idols you brought from Mesopotamia. Also, bathe yourselves and put on clean clothes.

ヤコブ乃ちその家人および凡て己とともなる者にいふ汝等の中にある異神を棄て身を清めて衣服を易よ

3 Then we will get ready and go up to Bethel. There I will make an altar to worship God. He is the one who helped me at the time when I was greatly distressed and afraid, and he has been with me wherever I have gone.”

我等起てベテルにのぼらん彼處にて我わが苦患の日に我に應へわが往ところの途にて我とともに在せし神に壇をきづくべし

4 So they gave to Jacob all the idols that they had brought, and all their earrings. Jacob buried them in the ground under the big oak tree that was near Shechem [town].

是に於て彼等その手にある異神およびその耳にある耳環を盡くヤコブに與へしかばヤコブこれをシケムの邊なる橡樹の下に埋たり

5 As they prepared to leave there, God caused the people who lived in the cities around them to be extremely afraid of Jacob’s family [PRS], so that they did not pursue and attack them.

斯て彼等いでたちしが神其四周の邑々をして懼れしめたまひければヤコブの子の後を追ふ者なかりき

6 Jacob and all those who were with him came to Luz, which is now called Bethel, in the Canaan region.

ヤコブ及び之と共なる諸の人遂にカナンの地にあるルズに至る是即ちベテルなり

7 There he built an altar. He named the place El-Bethel, [which means ‘God of Bethel]’, because it was there that God revealed himself to Jacob when he was fleeing from his older brother Esau.

彼かしこに壇をきづき其處をエルベテルと名けたり是は兄の面をさけて逃る時に神此にて己にあらはれ給しによりてなり

8 Deborah, who had taken care of Isaac’s wife Rebekah when Rebekah was a small girl, was now very old. She died and was buried under an oak tree south of Bethel. So they named that place Allon-Bacuth, [which means ‘oak of weeping’].

時にリベカの乳媼デボラ死たれば之をベテルの下にて橡樹の下に葬れり是によりてその樹の名をアロンバクテ（哀哭の橡）といふ

9 After Jacob and his family returned from Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia, while they were still at Bethel, God appeared to Jacob again and blessed him.

ヤコブ、パダンアラムより歸りし時神復これにあらはれて之を祝したまふ

10 God said to him again, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. It will be Israel.” So Jacob was then called ‘Israel’.

神かれに言たまはく汝の名はヤコブといふ汝の名は重てヤコブとよぶべからずイスラエルを汝の名となすべしとその名をイスラエルと稱たまふ

11 Then God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Produce many children. Your descendants will become many nations, and some of your descendants will be kings.

神また彼にいひたまふ我は全能の神なり生よ殖よ國民および多の國民汝よりいで又王等なんぢの腰よりいでん

12 The land that I promised to give to [your grandfather] Abraham and [your father] Isaac, I will give to you. I will also give it to your descendants.”

わがアブラハムおよびイサクに與し地は我これを汝にあたへん我なんぢの後の子孫にその地をあたふべしと

13 When God finished talking there with Jacob, he left him.

神かれと言たまひし處より彼をはなれて昇りたまふ

14 Jacob set up a large stone at the place where God had talked with him. He poured some wine and some [olive] oil on it to dedicate it to God.

是に於てヤコブ神の己と言いひたまひし處に柱すなはち石の柱を立て其上に酒を灌ぎまた其上に膏を沃げり

15 Jacob named that place Bethel, [which means ‘house of God]’, because God had spoken to him there.

而してヤコブ神の己にものいひたまひし處の名をベテルとなづけたり

16 Jacob and his family left Bethel and traveled south toward Ephrath [town]. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to have severe childbirth pains.

かくてヤコブ等ベテルよりいでたちしがエフラタに至るまでは尚路の隔ある處にてラケル産にのぞみその産おもかりき

17 When her pain was the most severe, the (midwife/woman who helped her to give birth) said to Rachel, “Do not be afraid, because now you have given birth to another son!”

彼難産にのぞめる時産婆之にいひけるは懼るなかれ汝また此男の子を得たり

18 But she was dying, and with her last breath she said, “Name him Benoni,” [which means ‘son of my sorrow]’, but his father named him Benjamin, [which means ‘son of my right hand]’.

彼死にのぞみてその魂さらんとする時その子の名をベノニ（吾苦痛の子）と呼たり然ど其父これをベニヤミン（右手の子）となづけたり

19 After Rachel died, she was buried alongside the road to Ephrath, which is [now called] Bethlehem.

ラケル死てエフラタの途に葬らる是即ちベテレヘムなり

20 Jacob set up a large stone over her grave, and it is still there, showing where Rachel’s grave is.

ヤコブその墓に柱を立たり是はラケルの墓の柱といひて今日まで在り

21 Jacob, whose new name was Israel, continued traveling with his family, and he set up his tents on the south side of the watchtower at Eder [town].

イスラエル復いでたちてエダルの塔の外にその天幕を張り

22 While they were living in that area, Jacob’s son Reuben had sex [EUP] with Bilhah, one of his father’s (concubines/female slaves whom he had taken as a secondary wife). Someone told Jacob about it, and it made him very angry. (I will now give you/Here is) a list of Jacob’s twelve sons.

イスラエルかの地に住る時にルベン往て父の妾ビルハと寢たりイスラエルこれを聞く夫ヤコブの子は十二人なり

23 The sons of Leah were Reuben, who was Jacob’s oldest son, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulon.

即ちレアの子はヤコブの長子ルベンおよびシメオン、レビ、ユダ、イッサカル、ゼブルンなり

24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

ラケルの子はヨセフとベニヤミンなり

25 The sons of Rachel’s female slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

ラケルの仕女ビルハの子はダンとナフタリなり

26 The sons of Leah’s female slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. All those sons of Jacob, except Benjamin, were born while he was living in Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia.

レアの仕女ジルパの子はガドとアセルなり是等はヤコブの子にしてパダンアラムにて彼に生れたる者なり

27 Jacob had returned back home to see his father Isaac at Mamre, which is also named Kiriath-Arba, and which is now named Hebron. Isaac’s father Abraham had also lived there.

ヤコブ、キリアテアルバのマムレにゆきてその父イサクに至れり是すなはちヘブロンなり彼處はアブラハムとイサクの寄寓しところなり

28 Isaac lived until he was 180 years old.

イサクの齡は百八十歳なりき

29 He was very old when he died, joining his ancestors who had died previously. His sons Esau and Jacob buried his body.

イサク老て年滿ち氣息たえ死にて其民にくははれりその子エサウとヤコブ之をはうむる