創世記 2
1 斯天地および其衆群悉く成ぬ
And so the heavens and the earth were completed, with all their adornment.
2 第七日に神其造りたる工を竣たまへり即ち其造りたる工を竣て七日に安息たまへり
And on the seventh day, God fulfilled his work, which he had made. And on the seventh day he rested from all his work, which he had accomplished.
3 神七日を祝して之を神聖めたまへり其は神其創造爲たまへる工を盡く竣て是日に安息みたまひたればなり
And he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make.
4 ヱホバ神地と天を造りたまへる日に天地の創造られたる其由來は是なり
These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made heaven and earth,
5 野の諸の灌木は未だ地にあらず野の諸の草蔬は未生ぜざりき其はヱホバ神雨を地に降せたまはず亦土地を耕す人なかりければなり
and every sapling of the field, before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the land.
6 霧地より上りて土地の面を遍く潤したり
But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.
7 ヱホバ神土の塵を以て人を造り生氣を其鼻に嘘入たまへり人即ち生靈となりぬ
And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
8 ヱホバ神エデンの東の方に園を設て其造りし人を其處に置たまへり
Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed.
9 ヱホバ神觀に美麗く食ふに善き各種の樹を土地より生ぜしめ又園の中に生命の樹および善惡を知の樹を生ぜしめ給へり
And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 河エデンより出て園を潤し彼處より分れて四の源となれり
And a river went forth from the place of enjoyment so as to irrigate Paradise, which is divided from there into four heads.
11 其第一の名はピソンといふ是は金あるハビラの全地を繞る者なり
The name of one is the Phison; it is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born;
12 其地の金は善し又ブドラクと碧玉彼處にあり
and the gold of that land is the finest. In that place is found bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 第二の河の名はギホンといふ是はクシの全地を繞る者なり
And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that which runs through all the land of Ethiopia.
14 第三の河の名はヒデケルといふ是はアッスリヤの東に流るるものなり第四の河はユフラテなり
Truly, the name of the third river is the Tigris; it advances opposite the Assyrians. But the fourth river, it is the Euphrates.
15 ヱホバ神其人を挈て彼をエデンの園に置き之を埋め之を守らしめ給へり
Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him.
16 ヱホバ神其人に命じて言たまひけるは園の各種の樹の果は汝意のままに食ふことを得
And he instructed him, saying: “From every tree of Paradise, you shall eat.
17 然ど善惡を知の樹は汝その果を食ふべからず汝之を食ふ日には必ず死べければなり
But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in whatever day you will eat from it, you will die a death.”
18 ヱホバ神言たまひけるは人獨なるは善らず我彼に適ふ助者を彼のために造らんと
The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”
19 ヱホバ神土を以て野の諸の獸と天空の諸の鳥を造りたまひてアダムの之を何と名るかを見んとて之を彼の所に率ゐいたりたまへりアダムが生物に名けたる所は皆其名となりぬ
Therefore, the Lord God, having formed from the soil all the animals of the earth and all the flying creatures of the air, brought them to Adam, in order to see what he would call them. For whatever Adam would call any living creature, that would be its name.
20 アダム諸の家畜と天空の鳥と野の諸の獸に名を與へたり然どアダムには之に適ふ助者みえざりき
And Adam called each of the living things by their names: all the flying creatures of the air, and all the wild beasts of the land. Yet truly, for Adam, there was not found a helper similar to himself.
21 是に於てヱホバ神アダムを熟く睡らしめ睡りし時其肋骨の一を取り肉をもて其處を填塞たまへり
And so the Lord God sent a deep sleep upon Adam. And when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and he completed it with flesh for it.
22 ヱホバ神アダムより取たる肋骨を以て女を成り之をアダムの所に携きたりたまへり
And the Lord God built up the rib, which he took from Adam, into a woman. And he led her to Adam.
23 アダム言けるは此こそわが骨の骨わが肉の肉なれ此は男より取たる者なれば之を女と名くべしと
And Adam said: “Now this is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. This one shall be called woman, because she was taken from man.”
24 是故に人は其父母を離れて其妻に好合ひ二人一體となるべし
For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
25 アダムと其妻は二人倶に裸體にして愧ざりき
Now they were both naked: Adam, of course, and his wife. And they were not ashamed.
