Numbers 14
1 That night, all the Israeli people cried loudly.
是において會衆みな聲をあげて叫び民その夜哭あかせり
2 The next day they all complained to Aaron and Moses/me. All the men said, “We wish that we had died in Egypt, or in this desert!
すなはちイスラエルの子孫みなモーセとアロンに對ひて呟き全會衆かれらに言けるは嗚呼我等はエジプトの國に死たらば善りしものを又はこの曠野に死ば善らんものを
3 Why is Yahweh bringing us to this land, where we men will be killed with swords? And our wives and children will be taken away [to be slaves]. [Instead of going to Canaan]. It would be better for us to return to Egypt!”
何とてヱホバ我等をこの地に導きいりて劍に斃れしめんとし我らの妻子をして掠められしめんとするやエジプトに歸ること反て好らずやと
4 Then [some of] them said to each other, “We should choose a leader who will take us back to Egypt!”
互に相語り我等一人の長を立てエジプトに歸らんと云り
5 Then Aaron and Moses/I bowed down [to pray] in front of all the Israeli people who had gathered there.
是をもてモーセとアロンはイスラエルの子孫の全會衆の前において俯伏たり
6 Joshua and Caleb, two of the men who had explored the land, tore their clothes [because they were very dismayed].
時にかの地を窺ひたりし者の中なるヌンの子ヨシユアとヱフンネの子カルブその衣服を裂き
7 They said to the Israeli people, “The land that we explored is very good.
イスラエルの子孫の全會衆に語りて言ふ我等が行巡りて窺ひたりし地は甚だ善き地なり
8 If Yahweh is pleased with us, he will lead us into that very fertile [IDM] land, and he will give it to us.
ヱホバもし我等を悦びたまはば我らをその地に導きいりて之を我等に賜はん是は乳と蜜との流るる地なるぞかし
9 So do not rebel against Yahweh! And do not be afraid of the people in that land! We will (gobble them up/completely destroy them) [MET]! They do not have anyone who will protect them, but Yahweh will be with us [and help us]. So do not be afraid of them!”
唯ヱホバに逆ふ勿れまたその地の民を懼るるなかれ彼等は我等の食物とならん彼等の影となる者は旣に去りかつヱホバわれらと共にいますなり彼等を懼るる勿れ
10 Then all the Israeli people talked about [killing Caleb and Joshua by] throwing stones at them. But [suddenly] Yahweh’s glory appeared to them at the Sacred Tent.
然るに會衆みな石をもて之を撃んとせり時にヱホバの榮光集會の幕屋の中よりイスラエルの全體の子孫に顯れたり
11 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “How long will these people reject me [RHQ]? I am tired of them not believing in what I [can do], in spite of all the miracles I have performed among them [RHQ]!
ヱホバすなはちモーセに言たまはく此民は何時まで我を藐視るや我諸の休徴をかれらの中間に行ひたるに彼等何時まで我を賴むことを爲ざるや
12 So I will cause a (plague/widespread sickness) to strike them and get rid of them. But I will cause your [descendants] to become a great nation. They will be a nation that is much greater and stronger than these people are.”
我疫病をもてかれらを撃ち滅し汝をして彼等よりも大なる強き民とならしめん
13 But Moses/I replied to Yahweh, “[Please do not do that, because] the people of Egypt will hear about it! You brought these Israeli people from Egypt by your great power,
モーセ、ヱホバに言けるは汝がその權能をもてこの民をエジプトより導き出したまひし事はエジプト人唯これを聞し而已ならず
14 and the people of Egypt will tell that to the [descendants of Canaan] who live in this land. Yahweh, they have already heard about you. They know that you have (been with/helped) these people and that they have seen you face-to-face. They have heard that your cloud is like a huge pillar that stays over them, and by using that cloud you lead them during the day, and the cloud becomes like a fire at night [to give them light].
また之をこの地に住る民に告たりまた彼等は汝ヱホバがこの民の中に在し汝ヱホバが明かにこれに顯れたまふことを聞きまたその上に汝の雲をりて汝が晝は雲の柱の中にあり夜は火の柱の中にありて之が前に行たまふを聞り
15 If you kill these people all at one time, the people-groups who have heard about your [power] will say,
然ば汝もしこの民を一人のごとくに殺したまはば汝の名聲を聞る國人等言ん
16 ‘Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land that he promised to give to them, so he killed them in the desert.’
ヱホバこの民を導きてその之に誓ひたりし地に至ること能はざるが故に之を曠野に殺せりと
17 “So Yahweh, now show that you are very powerful. You said,
吾主ねがはくは今汝の權能を大ならしめて汝の言たまへる如したまへ
18 ‘I do not quickly become angry; instead, I love people very much, and I forgive people for having sinned and having disobeyed my laws. But I will always punish [LIT] people who are guilty of doing what is wrong. When parents sin, I will punish them, but I will also punish their children and their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren and their great-great-grandchildren.’
汝曾言たまひけらくヱホバは怒ること遅く恩惠深く惡と過とを赦す者また罰すべき者をば必ず赦すことをせず父の罪を子に報いて三四代に及ぼす者と
19 So, because you love people like that, forgive these people for the sins that they have committed, just like you have continued to forgive them ever since they left Egypt.”
願くは汝の大なる恩惠をもち汝がエジプトより今にいたるまでこの民を赦しし如くにこの民の惡を赦したまへ
20 Then Yahweh replied, “I have forgiven them, as you requested me to.
ヱホバ言たまはく我汝の言にしたがひて之を赦す
21 But, just as certainly as I live and that people all over the world [can see] my (glory/glorious power), [I solemnly declare this: ]
然ながら我の活るごとくまたヱホバの榮光の全世界に充わたらん如く
22 All these people saw my glory and all the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the desert, but they disobeyed me, and many times they tested [whether they could continue to do evil things without my punishing them].
かのわが榮光および我がエジプトと曠野において行ひし休徴を見ながら斯十度も我を試みて我聲に聽したがはざる人々は
23 Because of that, not one of them will see the land that I promised their ancestors [that I would give to them]. No one who rejected me will see that land.
皆かならず我がその先祖等に誓ひし地を見ざるべしまた我を藐視る人々も之を見ざるべし
24 But Caleb, who serves me [well], is different from the others. He obeys me completely. So I will bring him into that land that he has already seen, and his descendants will inherit/possess some of it.
但しわが僕カルブはその心異にして我に全く從ひたれば彼の往たりし地に我かれを導きいらんその子孫これを有つに至るべし
25 So, since the descendants of Amalek and Canaan who are living in the valleys [in Canaan are very strong], when you leave here tomorrow, [instead of traveling toward Canaan], go back along the road through the desert towards the Red Sea.”
アマレキ人とカナン人谷にをれば明日汝等身を轉して紅海の路より曠野に退くべし
26 Then Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
ヱホバ、モーセとアロンに告て言たまはく
27 “How long will the wicked people of this nation keep complaining about me [RHQ]? I have heard everything that they have grumbled/complained against me.
我この我にむかひて呟くところの惡き會衆を何時まで赦しおかんや我イスラエルの子孫が我にむかひて呟くところの怨言を聞り
28 So now tell them this: ‘Just as certainly as I, Yahweh, live, I will do exactly what you said would happen.
彼等に言へヱホバ曰ふ我は活く汝等が我耳に言しごとく我汝等になすべし
29 [I will cause] all of you to die here in this desert! Because you grumbled about me, none of you who are more than 20 years old and who were counted when Moses counted everyone
汝らの屍はこの曠野に横はらん即ち汝ら核數られたる二十歳以上の者の中我に對ひて呟ける者は皆ことごとく此に斃るべし
30 will enter the land that I solemnly promised to give to you. Only Caleb and Joshua will enter that land.
ヱフンネの子カルブとヌンの子ヨシュアを除くの外汝等は我が汝らを住しめんと手をあげて誓ひたりし地に至ることを得ず
31 You said that your children would be taken from you [to become slaves], but I will take them into the land, and they will enjoy living in the land that you (rejected/said that you could not conquer).
汝等が掠められんと言たりし汝等の子女等を我導きて入ん彼等は汝らが顧みざるところの地を知に至るべし
32 But as for you [adults], you will die here in this desert.
汝らの屍はかならずこの曠野に横はらん
33 And like shepherds [wander around in the desert as they take care of their sheep], your children will wander around in this desert for 40 years. Because you adults were not loyal/faithful to me, your children will suffer until you all die in the desert.
汝らの子女等は汝らが屍となりて曠野に朽るまで四十年の間曠野に流蕩て汝らの悸逆の罪にあたらん
34 You will suffer for your sins for 40 years. That will be one year for each of the 40 days that the twelve men explored Canaan land. And I will be like an enemy to you.’
汝らはかの地を窺ふに日數四十日を經たれば其一日を一年として汝等四十年の間その罪を任ひ我が汝らを離たるを知べし
35 [This will certainly happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it! I will do these things to every one in this group who conspired against me. They (conspired against/decided together to reject) me here in the desert, and they will all die right here in this desert!”
我ヱホバこれを言り必ずこれをかの集りて我に敵する惡き會衆に盡く行なふべし彼らはこの曠野に朽ち此に死うせん
36 Then the ten men [who had explored Canaan and] who had urged the people to rebel against Yahweh by giving reports that discouraged the people
モーセに遣されてかの地を窺ひに往き還り來りてその地を謗り全會衆をしてモーセに對ひて呟かしめたる人々
37 were immediately struck with a plague/disease that Yahweh sent, and they died.
即ちその地を惡く言なしたるかの人々は罰をうけてヱホバの前に死り
38 Of the twelve men who had explored Canaan, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.
但しその地を窺ひに往きたる人々の中ヌンの子ヨシユアとヱフンネの子カルブとは生のこれり
39 When Moses/I reported to the Israeli people what Yahweh had said, many of them were very sad.
モーセこれらの事をイスラエルの子孫に告ければ民痛く哀み
40 So the people got up early the next morning and started to go toward the hilly area in Canaan. They said, “[We know that] we have sinned, but now we [are ready to] enter the land that Yahweh promised to give to us.”
朝蚤く起いでて山の嶺に登りて言ふ視よ我儕此にあり率ヱホバの約束したまひし地に上りゆかん我等罪を犯したればなり
41 But Moses/I said, “Yahweh commanded you [to return to the desert, so] why are you now disobeying him [RHQ]? It will not (succeed/be possible).
モーセ言けるは汝等なんぞ斯ヱホバの命に背くやこの事成就せざるべし
42 Do not try to enter the land now! [If you try], your enemies will defeat you, because Yahweh will not (be with/help) you.
汝ら上り行く勿れヱホバ汝らの中にいまさざれば恐くは汝らその敵の前に撃破られん
43 When you begin to fight the descendants of Amalek and Canaan, they will slaughter you! Yahweh will abandon you, because you have abandoned him.”
アマレキ人とカナン人其處に汝らの前にあれば汝等は劍に斃るるならん汝らヱホバに遵はざりし故にヱホバ汝等と偕に在さざるべしと
44 But even though Moses/I did not leave the camp, and the sacred chest that contained the Ten Commandments was not taken from the camp, the people began to go towards the hilly area in Canaan.
然るに彼等自擅に山の嶺に登れり但しヱホバの契約の櫃およびモーセは營を出ざりき
45 Then the descendants of Amalek and Canaan who lived in that hilly area came down and attacked them and chased them as far [south] as [the town of] Hormah.
斯りしかばその山に住るアマレキ人とカナン人下り來てこれを打敗りホルマまで追いたれり
