出エジプト記 2
1 爰にレビの家の一箇の人往てレビの女を娶れり
A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
2 女妊みて男子を生みその美きを見て三月のあひだこれを匿せしが
The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
3 すでにこれを匿すあたはざるにいたりければ萑の箱舟を之がために取て之に瀝靑と樹脂を塗り子をその中に納てこれを河邊の葦の中に置り
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
4 その姉遥に立てその如何になるかを窺ふ
His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
5 茲にパロの女身を洗んとて河にくだりその婢等河の傍にあゆむ彼葦の中に箱舟あるを見て使女をつかはしてこれを取きたらしめ
Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket amongst the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
6 これを啓きてその子のをるを見る嬰兒すなはち啼く彼これを憐みていひけるは是はヘブル人の子なりと
She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
7 時にその姉パロの女にいひけるは我ゆきてヘブルの女の中より此子をなんぢのために養ふべき乳母を呼きたらんか
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 パロの女往よと之にいひければ女子すなはち往てその子の母を呼きたる
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
9 パロの女かれにいひけるは此子をつれゆきて我ために之を養へ我その値をなんぢにとらせんと婦すなはちその子を取てこれを養ふ
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.
10 斯てその子の長ずるにおよびて之をパロの女の所にたづさへゆきければすなはちこれが子となる彼その名をモーセ(援出)と名けて言ふ我これを水より援いだせしに因ると
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
11 茲にモーセ生長におよびて一時いでてその兄弟等の所にいたりその重荷を負ふを見しが會一箇のエジプト人が一箇のイスラエル人即ちおのれの兄弟を撃つを見たれば
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
12 右左を視まはして人のをらざるを見てそのエジプト人を撃ころし之を沙の中に埋め匿せり
He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 次の日また出て二人のヘブル人の相爭ふを見たればその曲き者にむかひ汝なんぞ汝の隣人を撃つやといふに
He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
14 彼いひけるは誰が汝を立てわれらの君とし判官としたるや汝かのエジプト人をころせしごとく我をも殺さんとするやと是においてモーセ懼れてその事かならず知れたるならんとおもへり
He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
15 パロ此事を聞てモーセを殺さんともとめければモーセすなはちパロの面をさけて逃げのびミデアンの地に住り彼井の傍に坐せり
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
16 ミデアンの祭司に七人の女子ありしが彼等來りて水を汲み水鉢に盈て父の羊群に飮はんとしけるに
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17 牧羊者等きたりて彼らを逐はらひければモーセ起あがりて彼等をたすけその羊群に飮ふ
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 彼等その父リウエルに至れる時父言けるは今日はなんぢら何ぞかく速にかへりしや
When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 かれらいひけるは一箇のエジプト人我らを牧羊者等の手より救いだし亦われらのために水を多く汲て羊群に飮しめたり
They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
20 父女等にいひけるは彼は何處にをるや汝等なんぞその人を遺てきたりしや彼をよびて物を食しめよと
He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
21 モーセこの人とともに居ることを好めり彼すなはちその女子チツポラをモーセに與ふ
Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
22 彼男子を生みければモーセその名をゲルシヨム(客)と名けて言ふ我異邦に客となりをればなりと
She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
23 斯て時をふる程にジプトの王死りイスラエルの子孫その勞役の故によりて歎き號ぶにその勞役の故によりて號ぶところの聲神に達りければ
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
24 神その長呻を聞き神そのアブラハム、イサク、ヤコブになしたる契約を憶え
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 神イスラエルの子孫を眷み神知しめしたまへり
God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.
