創世記 9
1 神はノアとその子らとを祝福して彼らに言われた、「生めよ、ふえよ、地に満ちよ。
God blessed Noah [Rest] and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 地のすべての獣、空のすべての鳥、地に這うすべてのもの、海のすべての魚は恐れおののいて、あなたがたの支配に服し、
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
3 すべて生きて動くものはあなたがたの食物となるであろう。さきに青草をあなたがたに与えたように、わたしはこれらのものを皆あなたがたに与える。
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
4 しかし肉を、その命である血のままで、食べてはならない。
But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
5 あなたがたの命の血を流すものには、わたしは必ず報復するであろう。いかなる獣にも報復する。兄弟である人にも、わたしは人の命のために、報復するであろう。
I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
6 人の血を流すものは、人に血を流される、神が自分のかたちに人を造られたゆえに。
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
7 あなたがたは、生めよ、ふえよ、地に群がり、地の上にふえよ」。
Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
8 神はノアおよび共にいる子らに言われた、
God spoke to Noah [Rest] and to his sons with him, saying,
9 「わたしはあなたがた及びあなたがたの後の子孫と契約を立てる。
“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· with you, and with your offspring after you,
10 またあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物、あなたがたと共にいる鳥、家畜、地のすべての獣、すなわち、すべて箱舟から出たものは、地のすべての獣にいたるまで、わたしはそれと契約を立てよう。
and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
11 わたしがあなたがたと立てるこの契約により、すべて肉なる者は、もはや洪水によって滅ぼされることはなく、また地を滅ぼす洪水は、再び起らないであろう」。
I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 さらに神は言われた、「これはわたしと、あなたがた及びあなたがたと共にいるすべての生き物との間に代々かぎりなく、わたしが立てる契約のしるしである。
God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 すなわち、わたしは雲の中に、にじを置く。これがわたしと地との間の契約のしるしとなる。
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 わたしが雲を地の上に起すとき、にじは雲の中に現れる。
When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
15 こうして、わたしは、わたしとあなたがた、及びすべて肉なるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた契約を思いおこすゆえ、水はふたたび、すべて肉なる者を滅ぼす洪水とはならない。
and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 にじが雲の中に現れるとき、わたしはこれを見て、神が地上にあるすべて肉なるあらゆる生き物との間に立てた永遠の契約を思いおこすであろう」。
The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
17 そして神はノアに言われた、「これがわたしと地にあるすべて肉なるものとの間に、わたしが立てた契約のしるしである」。
God said to Noah [Rest], “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
18 箱舟から出たノアの子らはセム、ハム、ヤペテであった。ハムはカナンの父である。
The sons of Noah [Rest] who went out from the ship were Shem [Name], Ham [Hot, Intensity, Passion], and Japheth [Enlargement, Spreading wide]. Ham [Hot, Intensity, Passion] is the father of Canaan [Humbled].
19 この三人はノアの子らで、全地の民は彼らから出て、広がったのである。
These three were the sons of Noah [Rest], and from these, the whole earth was populated.
20 さてノアは農夫となり、ぶどう畑をつくり始めたが、
Noah [Rest] began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
21 彼はぶどう酒を飲んで酔い、天幕の中で裸になっていた。
He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
22 カナンの父ハムは父の裸を見て、外にいるふたりの兄弟に告げた。
Ham [Hot, Intensity, Passion], the father of Canaan [Humbled], saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 セムとヤペテとは着物を取って、肩にかけ、うしろ向きに歩み寄って、父の裸をおおい、顔をそむけて父の裸を見なかった。
Shem [Name] and Japheth [Enlargement, Spreading wide] took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
24 やがてノアは酔いがさめて、末の子が彼にした事を知ったとき、
Noah [Rest] awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
25 彼は言った、「カナンはのろわれよ。彼はしもべのしもべとなって、その兄弟たちに仕える」。
He said, “Canaan [Humbled] is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
26 また言った、「セムの神、主はほむべきかな、カナンはそのしもべとなれ。
He said, “Blessed be Adonai, the God of Shem [Name]. Let Canaan [Humbled] be his servant.
27 神はヤペテを大いならしめ、セムの天幕に彼を住まわせられるように。カナンはそのしもべとなれ」。
May God enlarge Japheth [Enlargement, Spreading wide]. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem [Name]. Let Canaan [Humbled] be his servant.”
28 ノアは洪水の後、なお三百五十年生きた。
Noah [Rest] lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
29 ノアの年は合わせて九百五十歳であった。そして彼は死んだ。
All the days of Noah [Rest] were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
