民数記 13
1 茲にヱホバ、モーセに告て言たまはく
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 汝人を遣して我がイスラエルの子孫に與ふるカナンの地を窺はしめよ即ち支派ごとに一人を取て之を遣すべし其人々は皆かれらの中の牧伯たる者なるべし
“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince amongst them.”
3 モーセすなはちヱホバの命にしたがひてバランの曠野よりこれを遣せりその人等は皆イスラエルの子孫の領袖たる者なり
Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
4 その名は是のごとしルベンの支派にてはザックルの子シヤンマ
These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5 シメオンの支派にてはホリの子シヤパテ
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6 ユダの支派にてはエフンネの子カルブ
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 イッサカルの支派にてはヨセフの子イガル
Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 エフライムの支派にてはヌンの子ホセア
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
9 ベニヤミンの支派にてはラフの子パルテ
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10 ゼブルンの支派にてはソデの子ガデエル
Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11 ヨセフの支派すなはちマナセの支派にてはスシの子ガデ
Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 ダンの支派にではゲマリの子アンミエル
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 アセルの支派にてはミカエルの子セトル
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14 ナフタリの支派にてはワフシの子ナヘビ
Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15 ガドの支派にてはマキの子ギウエル
Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16 是すなはちモーセがその地を窺はしめんとて遣したる人々の名なり時にモーセ、ヌンの子ホセアをヨシユアと名けたり
These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
17 モーセかれらを遣はしてカナンの地を窺はしめんとして之に言けるは汝等その南の方に赴きて山に登り
Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.
18 その地の如何と其處に住む民の強か弱か多か寡かを觀
See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
19 またその住ところの地は善か惡か其住ところの邑々は如何なるものなるか彼等は天幕に住をるか城の邑に住をるかを觀
and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
20 またその地は腴なるか痩たるか其中に樹あるや否を觀よ汝等勇しかれその地の果物を携へきたれよとこの時は葡萄の熟し始むる時なりき
and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
21 是において彼等上りゆきてその地を窺ひチンの曠野よりレホブにおよべり是はハマテに近し
So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
22 彼等すなはち南の方に上りゆきてヘブロンにいたれり此にはアナクの子アヒマン、セシヤイおよびタルマイあり(ヘブロンはエジプトのゾアンよりも七年前に建たる者なり)
They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 彼らつひにエシコルの谷にいたり其處より一球の葡萄のなれる枝を砍とりてこれを杠に貫き二人してこれを擔へりまた石榴と無花果を取り
They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
24 イスラエルの子孫其處より葡萄一球を砍とりしが故にその處をエシコル(一球の葡萄)の谷と稱ふ
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
25 彼ら四十日を經その地を窺ふことを竟て歸り
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
26 パランの曠野なるカデシに至りてモーセとアロンおよびイスラエルの子孫の全會衆に就きかれらと全會衆にその復命を申しその地の果物をこれに見せり
They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
27 彼等すなはちモーセに語りて言ふ我等は汝が遣しし地にいたれり誠に其處は乳と蜜とながる是その果物なり
They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
28 然ながらその地に住む民は猛くその邑々は堅固にして甚だ大なり我等またアナクの子孫の其處にをるを見たり
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
29 またアマレキ人その南の地に住みヘテ人エブス人およびアモリ人その山々に住みカナン人その海邊とヨルダンの邊に住をると
Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
30 時にカルブ、モーセの前に民を靜めて言けるは我等直に上りゆきて之を攻取ん我等は必ずこれに勝ことを得ん
Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
31 然ど彼とともに往たる人々は言ふ我等はかの民の所に攻上ることを得ず彼らは我らよりも強ければなりと
But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
32 彼等すなはちその窺ひたりし地の事をイスラエルの子孫の中に惡く言ふらして云く我等が行巡りて窺ひたる地は其中に住む者を呑ほろぼす地なり且またその中に我等が見し民はみな身幹たかき人なりし
They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
33 我等またアナクの子ネピリムを彼處に見たり是ネピリムより出たる者なり我儕は自ら見るに蝗のごとくまた彼らにも然見なされたり
There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
