1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
1レアがヤコブに産んだ娘デナはその地の女たちに会おうと出かけて行ったが、
2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
2その地のつかさ、ヒビびとハモルの子シケムが彼女を見て、引き入れ、これと寝てはずかしめた。
3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
3彼は深くヤコブの娘デナを慕い、この娘を愛して、ねんごろに娘に語った。
4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
4シケムは父ハモルに言った、「この娘をわたしの妻にめとってください」。
5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
5さてヤコブはシケムが、娘デナを汚したことを聞いたけれども、その子らが家畜を連れて野にいたので、彼らの帰るまで黙っていた。
6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
6シケムの父ハモルはヤコブと話し合おうと、ヤコブの所に出てきた。
7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.
7ヤコブの子らは野から帰り、この事を聞いて、悲しみ、かつ非常に怒った。シケムがヤコブの娘と寝て、イスラエルに愚かなことをしたためで、こんなことは、してはならぬ事だからである。
8Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
8ハモルは彼らと語って言った、「わたしの子シケムはあなたがたの娘を心に慕っています。どうか彼女を彼の妻にください。
9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
9あなたがたはわたしたちと婚姻し、あなたがたの娘をわたしたちに与え、わたしたちの娘をあなたがたにめとってください。
10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
10こうしてあなたがたとわたしたちとは一緒に住みましょう。地はあなたがたの前にあります。ここに住んで取引し、ここで財産を獲なさい」。
11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
11シケムはまたデナの父と兄弟たちとに言った、「あなたがたの前に恵みを得させてください。あなたがたがわたしに言われるものは、なんでもさしあげましょう。
12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
12たくさんの結納金と贈り物とをお求めになっても、あなたがたの言われるとおりさしあげます。ただこの娘はわたしの妻にください」。
13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
13しかし、ヤコブの子らはシケムが彼らの妹デナを汚したので、シケムとその父ハモルに偽って答え、
14and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
14彼らに言った、「われわれは割礼を受けない者に妹をやる事はできません。それはわれわれの恥とするところですから。
15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
15ただ、こうなさればわれわれはあなたがたに同意します。もしあなたがたのうち男子がみな割礼を受けて、われわれのようになるなら、
16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
16われわれの娘をあなたがたに与え、あなたがたの娘をわれわれにめとりましょう。そしてわれわれはあなたがたと一緒に住んで一つの民となりましょう。
17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, Hebrew has, literally, “daughter” and we will be gone.”
17けれども、もしあなたがたがわれわれに聞かず、割礼を受けないなら、われわれは娘を連れて行きます」。
18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
18彼らの言葉がハモルとハモルの子シケムとの心にかなったので、
19The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
19若者は、ためらわずにこの事をした。彼がヤコブの娘を愛したからである。また彼は父の家のうちで一番重んじられた者であった。
20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
20そこでハモルとその子シケムとは町の門に行き、町の人々に語って言った、
21“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
21「この人々はわれわれと親しいから、この地に住まわせて、ここで取引をさせよう。地は広く、彼らをいれるにじゅうぶんである。そしてわれわれは彼らの娘を妻にめとり、われわれの娘を彼らに与えよう。
22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
22彼らが割礼を受けているように、もしわれわれのうちの男子が皆、割礼を受けるなら、ただこの事だけで、この人々はわれわれに同意し、われわれと一緒に住んで一つの民となるのだ。
23Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
23そうすれば彼らの家畜と財産とすべての獣とは、われわれのものとなるではないか。ただわれわれが彼らに同意すれば、彼らはわれわれと一緒に住むであろう」。
24All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
24そこで町の門に出入りする者はみなハモルとその子シケムとに聞き従って、町の門に出入りするすべての男子は割礼を受けた。
25It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
25三日目になって彼らが痛みを覚えている時、ヤコブのふたりの子、すなわちデナの兄弟シメオンとレビとは、おのおのつるぎを取って、不意に町を襲い、男子をことごとく殺し、
26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
26またつるぎの刃にかけてハモルとその子シケムとを殺し、シケムの家からデナを連れ出した。
27Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
27そしてヤコブの子らは殺された人々をはぎ、町をかすめた。彼らが妹を汚したからである。
28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
28すなわち羊、牛、ろば及び町にあるものと、野にあるもの、
29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
29並びにすべての貨財を奪い、その子女と妻たちを皆とりこにし、家の中にある物をことごとくかすめた。
30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
30そこでヤコブはシメオンとレビとに言った、「あなたがたはわたしをこの地の住民、カナンびととペリジびとに忌みきらわせ、わたしに迷惑をかけた。わたしは、人数が少ないから、彼らが集まってわたしを攻め撃つならば、わたしも家族も滅ぼされるであろう」。彼らは言った、「わたしたちの妹を遊女のように彼が扱ってよいのですか」。
31They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
31彼らは言った、「わたしたちの妹を遊女のように彼が扱ってよいのですか」。