創世記 32
1 茲にヤコブその途に進みしが神の使者これにあふ
But Iacob went forth on his iourney. And the angells of God came and mett him.
2 ヤコブこれを見て是は神の陣營なりといひてその處の名をマハナイム(二營)となづけたり
And when Iacob sawe them he sayde: this is godes hoost: and called the name of that same place Mahanaim.
3 かくてヤコブ己より前に使者をつかはしてセイルの地エドムの野にをる其兄エサウの所にいたらしむ
Iacob sente meessengers before him to Esau his brother vnto the lande of Seir and the felde of Edom.
4 即ち之に命じて言ふ汝等かくわが主エサウにいふべし汝の僕ヤコブ斯いふ我ラバンの所に寄寓て今までとどまれり
And he comaunded them saynge: se that ye speake after this maner to my lorde Esau: thy seruaunte Iacob sayth thus. I haue sogerned ad bene a straunger with Laban vnto this tyme:
5 我牛驢馬羊僕婢あり人をつかはしてわが主に告ぐ汝の前に恩をえんことを願ふなりと
and haue gotten oxen asses and shepe menservauntes and wemanseruauntes and haue sent to shewe it mi lorde that I may fynde grace in thy syghte.
6 使者ヤコブにかへりて言けるは我等汝の兄エサウの許に至れり彼四百人をしたがへて汝をむかへんとて來ると
And the messengers came agayne to Iacob sainge: we came vnto thi brother Esau and he cometh ageynst the and. iiij. hundred men with hi.
7 是によりヤコブ大におそれ且くるしみ己とともにある人衆および羊と牛と駱駝を二隊にわかちて
Than was Iacob greatlye afrayde and wist not which waye to turne him selfe and devyded the people that was with him and the shepe oxen and camels in to. ij. companies
8 言けるはエサウもし一の隊に來りて之をうたば遺れるところの一隊逃るべし
and sayde: Yf Esau come to the one parte and smyte it the other may saue it selfe.
9 ヤコブまた言けるはわが父アブラハムの神わが父イサクの神ヱホバよ汝甞て我につげて汝の國にかへり汝の親族に到れ我なんぢを善せんといひたまへり
And Iacob sayde: O god of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac: LORde which saydest vnto me returne vnto thy cuntre and to thy kynrede and I will deall wel with the.
10 我はなんぢが僕にほどこしたまひし恩惠と眞實を一も受るにたらざるなり我わが杖のみを持てこのヨルダンを濟りしが今は二隊とも成にいたれり
I am not worthy of the leaste of all the mercyes and treuth which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunte. For with my staf came I over this Iordane and now haue Igoten. ij. droves
11 願くはわが兄の手よりエサウの手より我をすくひいだしたまへ我彼をおそる恐くは彼きたりて我をうち母と子とに及ばん
Delyver me from the handes of my brother Esau for I feare him: lest he will come and smyte the mother with the childeru.
12 汝は甞て我かならず汝を惠み汝の子孫を濱の沙の多して數ふべからざるが如くなさんといひたまへりと
Thou saydest that thou woldest surely do me good and woldest make mi seed as the sonde of the see which can not be nombred for multitude.
13 彼その夜彼處に宿りその手にいりし物の中より兄エサウへの禮物をえらべり
And he taried there that same nyghte and toke of that which came to hande a preasent vnto Esau his brother:
14 即ち牝山羊二百牡山羊二十牝羊二百牡羊二十
ij hundred she gootes ad xx he gootes: ij hundred shepe and xx rammes:
15 乳駱駝と其子三十牝牛四十牡牛十牝の驢馬二十驢馬の子十
thyrtye mylch camels with their coltes: xl kyne ad x bulles: xx she asses ad foles
16 而して其群と群とをわかちて之を僕の手に授し僕にいひけるは吾に先ちて進み群と群との間を隔ておくべし
and delyuered them vnto his seruauntes euery drooue by them selues ad sayde vnto them: goo forth before me and put a space betwyxte euery drooue.
17 又その前者に命じて言けるはわが兄エサウ汝にあひ汝に問て汝は誰の人にして何處にゆくや是汝のまへなる者は誰の所有なるやといはば
And he comaunded the formest sayngeWhe Esau my brother meteth the ad axeth the saynge: whose seruaute art thou and whither goost thou and whose ar these that goo before ye:
18 汝の僕ヤコブの所有にしてわが主エサウにたてまつる禮物なり視よ彼もわれらの後にをるといふべしと
thou shalt say they be thy seruaunte Iacobs and are a present sent vnto my lorde Esau and beholde he him selfe cometh after vs.
19 彼かく第二の者第三の者および凡て群々にしたがひゆく者に命じていふ汝等エサウにあふ時はかくの如く之にいふべし
And so comaunded he the seconde ad euen so the thirde and lykewyse all that folowed the drooues sainge of this maner se that ye speake vnto Esau whe ye mete him
20 且汝等いへ視よなんぢの僕ヤコブわれらの後にをるとヤコブおもへらく我わが前におくる禮物をもて彼を和めて然るのち其面を觀ん然ば彼われを接遇ることあらんと
ad saye more ouer. Beholde thy seruaunte Iacob cometh after vs for he sayde. I will pease his wrath with the present yt goth before me and afterward I will see him myself so peradventure he will receaue me to grace.
21 是によりて禮物かれに先ちて行く彼は其夜陣營の中に宿りしが
So went the preset before him ad he taried all that nyghte in the tente
22 其夜おきいでて二人の妻と二人の仕女および十一人の子を導きてヤボクの渡をわたれり
ad rose vp the same nyghte ad toke his. ij. wyves and his. ij. maydens and his. xi. sonnes and went ouer the foorde Iabok.
23 即ち彼等をみちびきて川を渉らしめ又その有る物を渡せり
And he toke them ad sent the ouer the ryuer ad sent ouer that he had
24 而してヤコブ一人遺りしが人ありて夜の明るまで之と角力す
ad taried behinde him selfe alone. And there wrastled a man with him vnto the breakynge of the daye.
25 其人己のヤコブに勝ざるを見てヤコブの髀の樞骨に觸しかばヤコブの髀の樞骨其人と角力する時挫離たり
And when he sawe that he coude not prevayle agaynst him he smote hi vnder the thye and the senowe of Iacobs thy shranke as he wrastled with him.
26 其人夜明んとすれば我をさらしめよといひければヤコブいふ汝われを祝せずばさらしめずと
And he sayde: let me goo for the daye breaketh. And he sayde: I will not lett the goo excepte thou blesse me.
27 是に於て其人かれにいふ汝の名は何なるや彼いふヤコブなり
And he sayde vnto him: what is thy name? He answered: Iacob.
28 其人いひけるは汝の名は重てヤコブととなふべからずイスラエルととなふべし其は汝神と人とに力をあらそひて勝たればなりと
And he sayde: thou shalt be called Iacob nomore but Israell. For thou hast wrastled with God and with men ad hast preuayled.
29 ヤコブ問て請ふ汝の名を告よといひければ其人何故にわが名をとふやといひて乃ち其處にて之を祝せり
And Iacob asked him sainge tell me thi name. And he sayde wherfore dost thou aske after my name? and he blessed him there.
30 是を以てヤコブその處の名をベニエル(神の面)となづけて曰ふ我面と面をあはせて神とあひ見てわが生命なほ存るなりと
And Iacob called the name of the place Peniel for I haue sene God face to face and yet is my lyfe reserved.
31 斯て彼日のいづる時にベニエルを過たりしが其髀のために歩行はかどらざりき
And as he went ouer Peniel the sonne rose vpon him and he halted vpon his thye:
32 是故にイスラエルの子孫は今日にいたるまで髀の樞の巨筋を食はず是彼人がヤコブの髀の巨筋に觸たるによりてなり
wherfore the childern of Israell eate not of the senow that shrancke vnder the thye vnto this daye: because that he smote Iacob vnder the thye in the senow that shroncke.
