民数記 18

1 斯てヱホバ、アロンに告て言たまはく汝と汝の子等および汝の父祖の家の者は聖所に關れる罪をその身に擔當べしまた汝と汝の子等は汝らがその祭司の職について獲ところの罪をその身に擔當べし

And the Lord said to Aaron: “You, and your sons, and the house of your father with you, shall carry the iniquity of the Sanctuary. And you and your sons together shall bear the sins of your priesthood.

2 汝また汝の兄弟たるレビの支派の者すなはち汝の父祖の支派の者等をも率て汝に合せしめ汝に事しむべし但し汝と汝の子等は律法の幕屋の前に侍るべきなり

But take to yourselves also your brothers from the tribe of Levi, and the scepter of your father, and may they be prepared, and may they minister to you. Then you and your sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.

3 彼らは汝の職守と聖所の職守とを守るべし只聖所の器具と壇とに近くべからず恐くは彼等も汝等も死るならん

And the Levites shall stand watch by your precepts, and for all the works of the tabernacle; yet in such a manner that they shall not approach the vessels of the Sanctuary and of the altar, lest both they die, and you perish, at the same time.

4 彼等は汝に合して集合の幕屋の職守を守り幕屋の諸の役事をなすべきなり外人は汝らに近づく可らず

But they may be with you, and they may watch over the care of the tabernacle and all its ceremonies. A foreigner shall not be mixed with you.

5 斯なんぢらは聖所の職守と祭壇の職守を守るべし然せばヱホバの震怒かさねてイスラエルの子孫に及ぶこと有じ

Watch over the care of the Sanctuary, and over the ministry of the altar, lest an indignation may rise over the sons of Israel.

6 視よ我なんぢらの兄弟たるレビ人をイスラエルの子孫の中より取りヱホバのために之を賜物として汝らに賜ふて集會の幕屋の役事を爲しむ

I have given your brothers, the Levites, to you from the midst of the sons of Israel, and I have delivered them as a gift to the Lord, in order to serve in the ministries of his tabernacle.

7 汝と汝の子等は祭司の職を守りて祭壇の上と障蔽の幕の内の一切の事を執おこなひ斯ともに勤むべし我祭司の職の勤務と賜物として汝らに賜ふ外人の近く者は殺されん

But as for you and your sons: guard the priesthood. For all that pertains to the service of the altar and of what is beyond the veil shall be exercised by the priests. If any outsider will approach, he shall be killed.”

8 ヱホバ又アロンに言たまはく我イスラエルの子孫の諸の聖禮物の中我に擧祭とするところの者をもて汝に賜ひて得さす即ち我これを汝と汝の子等にあたへてその分となさしめ是を永く例となす

And the Lord said to Aaron: “Behold, I have given you custody of my first-fruits. Everything that is sanctified by the sons of Israel I have delivered to you and your sons, for the office of the priesthood, by everlasting ordinances.

9 斯のごとく至聖禮物の中火にて燒ざる者は汝に歸すべし即ちその我に献る諸の禮物素祭罪祭愆祭等みな至聖くして汝と汝らの子等に歸すべし

Therefore, you shall receive these, from the things that are sanctified and offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatever is repaid to me, on behalf of sin and also for offenses, and which becomes the Holy of holies, shall be for you and for your sons.

10 至聖所にて汝これを食ふべし男子等はみなこれを食ふことを得是は汝に歸すべき聖物たるなり

You shall eat it in the Sanctuary. Only the males shall eat from it, because it has been consecrated for you.

11 汝に歸すべき物は是なり即ちイスラエルの子孫の献る擧祭と搖祭の物我これを汝と汝の男子と女子に與へ是を永く例となす汝の家の者の中潔き者はみな之を食ふことを得るなり

But the first-fruits, which the sons of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to you, and to your sons, as well as to your daughters, by a perpetual right. Whoever is clean in your house shall eat them.

12 油の嘉者酒の嘉者穀物の嘉者など凡てヱホバに献るその初の物を我なんぢに與ふ

All the innermost of the oil, and of the wine, and of the grain, whatever first-fruits they offer to the Lord, I have given to you.

13 最初に成る國の產物の中ヱホバに携へたる者は皆なんぢに歸すべし汝の家の者の中潔き者はみな之を食ふことを得るなり

All the first of the crops, which the soil produces and which are carried to the Lord, shall fall to your use. Whoever is clean in your house shall eat them.

14 イスラエルの人の献納る物は皆汝に歸すべし

All that the sons of Israel shall repay by vow shall be yours.

15 凡そ血肉ある者の首出子にしてヱホバに献らるる者は人にもあれ畜にもあれ皆なんぢに歸すべし但し人の首出子は必ず贖ふべくまた汚れたる畜獣の首出子も贖ふべきなり

Whatever goes out first from the womb, of all flesh, which they offer to the Lord, whether from men or from cattle, shall be your right; yet only in so far as, for the firstborn of man, you shall accept a price. And every animal that is unclean you shall cause to be redeemed.

16 之を贖ふにはその人の生れて一箇月に至れる後に汝その估價に依り聖所のシケルに循ひて銀五シケルに之を贖ふべし一シケルはすなはち二十ゲラなり

And its redemption shall be, after one month, five shekels of silver, by the weight of the Sanctuary. A shekel has twenty obols.

17 然ど牛の首出子羊の首出子山羊の首出子は贖ふべからず是等は聖しその血を壇の上に灑ぎまたその脂を焚て火祭となしてヱホバに馨しき香をたてまつるべし

But the firstborn of a cow, or of a sheep, or of a goat, you shall not cause to be redeemed, because they have been sanctified to the Lord. Thus, their blood you shall pour out upon the altar, and their fat you shall burn as a most sweet odor to the Lord.

18 その肉は汝に歸すべし搖る胸と右の腿とおなじく是は汝に歸するなり

Yet truly, the flesh shall fall to your use, just as the consecrated breast and the right shoulder shall be yours.

19 イスラエルの子孫がヱホバに献て擧祭とする所の聖物はみな我これを汝と汝の男子女子に與へこれを永く例となす是はヱホバの前において汝と汝の子孫に對する鹽の契約にして變らざる者なり

All the first-fruits of the Sanctuary, which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons as well as to your daughters, as a perpetual right. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord, for you and for your sons.”

20 ヱホバまたアロンに告たまはく汝はイスラエルの子孫の地の中に產業を有べからずまた彼等の中に何の分をも有べからず彼らの中において我は汝の分汝の產業たるなり

And the Lord said to Aaron: “In their land, you shall possess nothing; neither shall you have a portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel.

21 またレビの子孫たる者には我イスラエルの中において物の十分の一を與へて之が產業となし其なすところの役事すなはち集會の幕屋の役事に報ゆ

But I have given, to the sons of Levi, all the tithes of Israel as a possession, for the ministry by which they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant,

22 イスラエルの子孫はかさねて集會の幕屋に近づくべからず恐くは罪を負て死ん

so that the sons of Israel may no longer approach to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin.

23 第レビ人集會の幕屋の役事をなすべしまた彼らはその罪な自己の身に負べし彼等はイスラエルの子孫の中に產業の地を有ざる事をもてその例となして汝らの世代の子孫の中に永く之を守るべきなり

Only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle and may carry the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall possess nothing else;

24 イスラエルの子孫が十に一を取り擧祭としてヱホバに献るところの物を我レビ人に與へてその產業となさしむるが故に我かれらにつきて言り彼等はイスラエルの子孫の中に產業の地を得べからずと

being content with the oblation of tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.”

25 ヱホバ、モーセに告て言たまはく

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

26 汝かくレビ人に告て之に言べし我がイスラエルの子孫より取て汝等に與へて產業となさしむるその什一の物を汝ら之より受る時はその什一の物の十分の一を献てヱホバの擧祭となすべし

“Instruct the Levites, and also declare to them: When you will receive, from the sons of Israel, the tithes, which I have given to you, offer their first-fruits to the Lord, that is, the tenth part of a tenth,

27 汝等の擧祭の物品は禾場よりたてまつる穀物の如く酒醡の内よりたてまつる酒のごとくに見做れん

so that it may be accounted to you as an oblation of the first-fruits, as much from the threshing floors as from the oil and wine presses.

28 此のごとく汝等もまたイスラエルの子孫より受る一切の什一の物の中よりヱホバに擧祭を献げそのヱホバの擧祭を祭司アロンに與ふべし

And offer the first-fruits of everything, from which you receive tithes, to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.

29 汝らの受る一切の禮物の中より汝らはその嘉ところ即ちその聖き分を取てヱホバの擧祭を献べし

Everything which you shall offer from the tithes, and which you shall separate as gifts to the Lord, shall be the finest and most select.

30 汝かく彼等に言べし汝らその中より嘉ところを取て献るに於てはその殘餘の物は汝等レビ人におけること禾場より取る物のごとく酒醡より取る物のごとくならん

And you shall say to them: ‘If you offer the noble and the better of the tithes, it shall be accounted to you as if you had given from the first-fruits of the threshing floor and of the oil and wine presses.’

31 汝等と汝らの眷屬何處にても之を食ふことを得べし是は汝らが集會の幕屋に於て爲す役事の報酬たればなり

And you shall eat these in all your places, both you and your families, because it is your price for the ministry, by which you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony.

32 汝らその嘉ところを献るに於ては之がために罪を負こと有じ汝らはイスラエルの子孫の聖別て献る物を汚すべからず恐くは汝ら死ん

And you shall not sin in this way: by reserving the excellent and fat things for yourselves, lest you pollute the oblations of the sons of Israel, and lest you die.”