Numbers 19

1 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

2 “I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that (has never been/no one has ever) used for plowing ground.

ヱホバが命ずるところの律の例は是のごとし云くイスラエルの子孫に告て赤牝牛の全くして疵なく未だ軛を負しこと有ざる者を汝の許に牽きたらしめ

3 Give it to Eleazar, the priest. He must take it outside the camp and slaughter it [and drain the blood in a basin].

汝ら之を祭司エレアザルに交すべし彼はまたこれを營の外に牽いだして自己の眼の前にこれを宰らしむべし

4 He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times [on the ground] near the Sacred Tent.

而して祭司エレアザルこれが血を其指につけ集會の幕屋の表にむかひてその血を七次灑ぎ

5 Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, [the rest of] its blood, and even its dung.

やがてその牝牛を自己の眼の前に燒しむべしその皮その肉その血およびその糞をみな燒べし

6 Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.

その時祭司香柏と牛膝草と紅の絲をとりて之をその燒る牝牛の中に投いるべし

7 “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe. After doing that, he may return to the camp. But he will be unfit for doing any sacred work until that evening.

かくて祭司はその衣服を浣ひ水にてその身を滌ぎて然る後營に入べし祭司の身は晩まで汚るるなり

8 The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe, and he will also be unacceptable to me until that evening.

また之を燒たる者も水にその衣服を浣ひ水にその身を滌ぐべし彼も晩まで汚るるなり

9 “Then someone who has not become unacceptable to me must gather up the ashes of the cow and put them in a (sacred place/place that is acceptable to me) outside the camp. The ashes must be kept there for the people of Israel to [use when they] mix it with water for the ritual to remove the guilt of sin.

斯て身の潔き人一人その牝牛の灰をかき斂めてこれを營の外の清淨處に蓄へ置べし是イスラエルの子孫の會衆のために備へおきて汚穢を潔る水を作るべき者にして罪を潔むる物に當るなり

10 The man who gathers up the ashes of the cow must [also] wash his clothes, and he [also] will be unfit to do any more sacred work until that evening. That is a regulation that will never be changed. It must be obeyed by you Israeli people and by any foreigners who live among you.

その牝牛の灰をかき斂めたる者はその衣服を浣ふべしその身は晩まで汚るるなりイスラエルの子孫とその中に寄寓る他國の人とは永くこれを例とすべきなり

11 “All those who touch a corpse will be unacceptable to me for seven days.

人の死屍に捫る者は七日の間汚る

12 On the third day and on the seventh day [after touching a corpse], in order to become acceptable to me again, [they must have sprinkled on them] some of that water for removing the guilt of their sin. If they do not do that on both of those days, they will continue to be unacceptable to me.

第三日と第七日にこの灰水を以て身を潔むべし然せば潔くならん然ど若し第三日と第七日に身を潔むることを爲ざれば潔くならじ

13 All those who touch a corpse, and do not perform in the correct way the ritual to become acceptable to me again, defile Yahweh’s Sacred Tent. They will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people. The water to remove the guilt of sin was not sprinkled on them, so they continue to be unacceptable to me.

凡そ死人の屍に捫りて身を潔むることを爲ざる者はヱホバの幕屋を汚すなればイスラエルより斷るべし汚穢を潔むる水をその身に灑ざるによりて潔くならずその汚穢なほ身にあるなり

14 “There is another ritual that must be performed when someone dies inside a tent. All those who were inside that tent when that person died or who enter that tent will be unacceptable to me for seven days.

天幕に人の死ることある時に應用ふる律は是なり即ち凡てその天幕に入る者凡てその天幕にある物は七日の間汚るべし

15 Any jars that are inside that tent that are not covered are not permitted to be used.

凡そ蓋を取はなして蓋はざりし所の器皿はみな汚る

16 If someone who is out in a field touches the corpse of someone who was murdered, or who died from natural causes, or if someone touches a bone from some human or touches a grave, that person will be unacceptable to me for seven days.

凡そ刀劍にて殺されたる者または死屍または人の骨または墓等に野の表にて捫る者はみな七日の間汚るべし

17 “For someone like that to become acceptable to me again, some of the ashes from [the cow] that was burned must be taken and put in a jar. Then some fresh water must be poured over the ashes.

汚れたる者ある時はかの罪を潔むる者たる燒る牝牛の灰をとりて器に入れ活水を之に加ふべし

18 Then someone who is still acceptable to me must take a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop and dip it into the water. Then that person must sprinkle some of the water on the tent where that person died, on the things that are in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent. He must also sprinkle some of that water on any person who touched a human bone or who touched a person who died, or who touched a grave.

而して身の潔き人一人牛膝草を執てその水にひたし之をその天幕と諸の器皿および其處に居あはせたる人々に灑ぐべくまたは骨あるひは殺されし者あるひは死たる者あるひは墓などに捫れる者に灑ぐべし

19 On the third day and on the seventh day after that, the person who is acceptable to me must sprinkle some of that water on those who have become unacceptable to me. On the seventh day, the people who are performing that ritual to become acceptable to me again must wash their clothes and bathe. If they do that, on that evening they will become acceptable to me again.

即ち身の潔き人第三日と第七日にその汚れたる者に之を灑ぐべし而して第七日にはその人みづから身を潔むることを爲しその衣服をあらひ水に身を滌ぐべし然せば晩におよびて潔くなるべし

20 “If those who have become unacceptable to me do not become acceptable to me again by doing this, they will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people, because they have defiled my Sacred Tent. They did not sprinkle on themselves the water that removes the guilt of their sins, so they remain unacceptable to me.

然ど汚れて身を潔ることを爲ざる人はヱホバの聖所を汚すが故にその身は會衆の中より絶るべし汚穢を潔むる水を身に灑がざるによりてその人は潔くならざるなり

21 That is a law for the Israeli people that will never be changed. Those who sprinkle that water on themselves must then wash their clothes. And anyone who touches that water which removes guilt for sins will remain unacceptable to God until that evening.

彼等また永くこれを例とすべし即ち汚穢を潔むる水を人に灑げる者はその衣服を浣ふべしまた汚穢を潔むる水に捫れる者も晩まで汚るべし

22 “If someone touches a thing or a person that has become unacceptable to me, that person will remain unacceptable to me until that evening.”

凡て汚れたる人の捫れる者は汚るべしまた之に捫る人も晩まで汚るべし