創世記 38

1 當時ユダ兄弟をはなれて下りアドラム人名はヒラといふ者の近邊に天幕をはりしが

It happened at that time that Judah moved away from his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

2 ユダかしこにてカナン人名はシュアといふ者の女子を見これを娶りてその所にいる

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he married her and slept with her.

3 彼はらみて男子を生みければユダその名をエルとなづく

She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.

4 彼ふたたび孕みて男子を生みその名をオナンとなづけ

She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.

5 またかさねて孕みて男子を生みてその名をシラとなづく此子をうみける時ユダはクジブにありき

Then she gave birth to another son, and named him Shelah. And he was at Kezib when she gave birth to him.

6 ユダその長子エルのために妻をむかふその名をタマルといふ

And Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

7 ユダの長子エル、ヱホバの前に惡をなしたればヱホバこれを死しめたまふ

Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of YHWH, so God killed him.

8 茲にユダ、オナンにいひけるは汝の兄の妻の所にいりて之をめとり汝の兄をして子をえせしめよ

Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."

9 オナンその子の己のものとならざるを知たれば兄の妻の所にいりし時兄に子をえせしめざらんために地に洩したり

But Onan knew that the offspring wouldn't be his. So it happened when he slept with his brother's wife that he released his semen on the ground, so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

10 斯なせし事ヱホバの目に惡かりければヱホバ彼をも死しめたまふ

And what he did was evil in the sight of God, so he killed him also.

11 ユダその媳タマルにいひけるは嫠婦となりて汝の父の家にをりわが子シラの人となるを待てと恐らくはシラも亦その兄弟のごとく死るならんとおもひたればなりタマルすなはち往てその父の家にをる

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah is grown up." For he thought, "I do not want him to die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

12 日かさなりて後シュアの女ユダの妻死たりユダ慰をいれてその友アドラム人ヒラとともにテムナにのぼりその羊毛を剪る者の所にいたる

After some time, Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. And Judah finished mourning, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

13 茲にタマルにつげて視よなんぢの舅はその羊の毛を剪んとてテムナにのぼるといふ者ありしかば

And Tamar was told, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

14 彼その嫠の服を脱すて被衣をもて身をおほひつつみテムナの途の側にあるエナイムの入口に坐す其はシラ人となりたれども己これが妻にせられざるを見たればなり

She took off her widow's clothes and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

15 彼その面を蔽ひゐたりしかばユダこれを見て娼妓ならんとおもひ

When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

16 途の側にて彼に就き請ふ來りて我をして汝の所にいらしめよといふ其はその子の妻なるをしらざればなり彼いひけるは汝何を我にあたへてわが所にいらんとするや

He went over to her by the road and said, "Please come, let me sleep with you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with you?"

17 ユダいひけるは我群より山羊の羔をおくらん彼いふ汝其をおくるまで質をあたへんか

He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me something as a guarantee until you send it?"

18 ユダ何の質をなんぢに與ふべきやといふに彼汝の印と綬と汝の手の杖をといひければ即ちこれを與へて彼の所にいりぬ彼ユダに由て姙めり

He said, "What kind of guarantee should I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

19 彼起て去りその被衣をぬぎすて嫠婦の服をまとふ

And she got up and left, and took off her veil, and put on her widow's clothing.

20 かくてユダ婦の手より質をとらんとてその友アドラム人の手に托して山羊の羔をおくりけるが彼婦を見ざれば

Judah sent the young goat by his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the guarantee back from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.

21 その處の人に問て途の側なるエナイムの娼妓は何處にをるやといふに此には娼妓なしといひければ

Then he asked the men of the place, saying, "Where is the prostitute that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

22 ユダの許にかへりていふ我彼を見いださず亦その處の人此には娼妓なしといへりと

He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

23 ユダいひけるは彼にとらせおけ恐くはわれら笑抦とならん我この山羊の羔をおくりたるに汝かれを見ざるなりと

Judah said, "Let her keep the things, lest we be publicly shamed. Look, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her."

24 三月ばかりありて後ユダに告る者ありていふ汝の媳タマル姦淫をなせり亦その姦淫によりて妊めりユダいひけるは彼を曵いだして焚べし

Now it happened about three months later that Judah was told, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has turned to prostitution, and now, look, she is pregnant by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."

25 彼ひきいだされし時その舅にいひつかはしけるは是をもてる人によりて我は妊りと彼すなはち請ふこの印と綬と杖は誰の所屬なるかを辨別よといふ

When she was brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man who owns these I am pregnant." She also said, "Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cord, and the staff."

26 ユダこれを見識ていひけるは彼は我よりも正しわれ彼をわが子わがシラにあたへざりしによりてなりと再びこれを知らざりき

Then Judah recognized them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." He did not sleep with her again.

27 かくて產の時にいたりて見るにその胎に孿あり

It happened when it was time for her to give birth, that look, there were twins in her womb.

28 その產時手出しかば產婆是首にいづといひて絳き線をとりてその手にしばりしが

As she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first."

29 手を引こむるにあたりて兄弟いでたれば汝なんぞ圻いづるやその圻汝に歸せんといへり故にその名はペレヅ(圻)と稱る

It happened, as he drew back his hand, that look, his brother came out, and she said, "How did you break through?" So he was named Perez.

30 その兄弟手に絳線のある者後にいづその名はゼラとよばる

Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, so he was named Zerah.