¹ さて、主はモーセに言われた、「あなたと、あなたがエジプトの国から導きのぼった民とは、ここを立ってわたしがアブラハム、イサク、ヤコブに誓って、『これをあなたの子孫に与える』と言った地にのぼりなさい。

² わたしはひとりの使をつかわしてあなたに先立たせ、カナンびと、アモリびと、ヘテびと、ペリジびと、ヒビびと、エブスびとを追い払うであろう。

³ あなたがたは乳と蜜の流れる地にのぼりなさい。しかし、あなたがたは、かたくなな民であるから、わたしが道であなたがたを滅ぼすことのないように、あなたがたのうちにあって一緒にはのぼらないであろう」。

⁴ 民はこの悪い知らせを聞いて憂い、ひとりもその飾りを身に着ける者はなかった。

⁵ 主はモーセに言われた、「イスラエルの人々に言いなさい、『あなたがたは、かたくなな民である。もしわたしが一刻でも、あなたがたのうちにあって、一緒にのぼって行くならば、あなたがたを滅ぼすであろう。ゆえに、今、あなたがたの飾りを身から取り去りなさい。そうすればわたしはあなたがたになすべきことを知るであろう』」。

⁶ それで、イスラエルの人々はホレブ山以来その飾りを取り除いていた。

⁷ モーセは幕屋を取って、これを宿営の外に、宿営を離れて張り、これを会見の幕屋と名づけた。すべて主に伺い事のある者は出て、宿営の外にある会見の幕屋に行った。

⁸ モーセが出て、幕屋に行く時には、民はみな立ちあがり、モーセが幕屋にはいるまで、おのおのその天幕の入口に立って彼を見送った。

⁹ モーセが幕屋にはいると、雲の柱が下って幕屋の入口に立った。そして主はモーセと語られた。

¹⁰ 民はみな幕屋の入口に雲の柱が立つのを見ると、立っておのおの自分の天幕の入口で礼拝した。

¹¹ 人がその友と語るように、主はモーセと顔を合わせて語られた。こうしてモーセは宿営に帰ったが、その従者なる若者、ヌンの子ヨシュアは幕屋を離れなかった。

¹² モーセは主に言った、「ごらんください。あなたは『この民を導きのぼれ』とわたしに言いながら、わたしと一緒につかわされる者を知らせてくださいません。しかも、あなたはかつて『わたしはお前を選んだ。お前はまたわたしの前に恵みを得た』と仰せになりました。

¹³ それで今、わたしがもし、あなたの前に恵みを得ますならば、どうか、あなたの道を示し、あなたをわたしに知らせ、あなたの前に恵みを得させてください。また、この国民があなたの民であることを覚えてください」。

¹⁴ 主は言われた「わたし自身が一緒に行くであろう。そしてあなたに安息を与えるであろう」。

¹⁵ モーセは主に言った「もしあなた自身が一緒に行かれないならば、わたしたちをここからのぼらせないでください。

¹⁶ わたしとあなたの民とが、あなたの前に恵みを得ることは、何によって知られましょうか。それはあなたがわたしたちと一緒に行かれて、わたしとあなたの民とが、地の面にある諸民と異なるものになるからではありませんか」。

¹⁷ 主はモーセに言われた、「あなたはわたしの前に恵みを得、またわたしは名をもってあなたを知るから、あなたの言ったこの事をもするであろう」。

¹⁸ モーセは言った、「どうぞ、あなたの栄光をわたしにお示しください」。

¹⁹ 主は言われた、「わたしはわたしのもろもろの善をあなたの前に通らせ、主の名をあなたの前にのべるであろう。わたしは恵もうとする者を恵み、あわれもうとする者をあわれむ」。

²⁰ また言われた、「しかし、あなたはわたしの顔を見ることはできない。わたしを見て、なお生きている人はないからである」。

²¹ そして主は言われた、「見よ、わたしのかたわらに一つの所がある。あなたは岩の上に立ちなさい。

²² わたしの栄光がそこを通り過ぎるとき、わたしはあなたを岩の裂け目に入れて、わたしが通り過ぎるまで、手であなたをおおうであろう。

²³ そしてわたしが手をのけるとき、あなたはわたしのうしろを見るが、わたしの顔は見ないであろう」。

¹ Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

² Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

³ Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

⁴ Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

⁵ Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

⁶ Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

⁷ She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

⁸ The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹ Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

¹¹ The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

¹² God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

¹³ I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

¹⁴ Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵ The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

¹⁶ She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

¹⁷ God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

¹⁸ Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

¹⁹ God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

²⁰ God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

²² It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

²³ Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

²⁴ Abraham said, "I will swear."

²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

²⁶ Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

²⁷ Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

²⁸ Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

²⁹ Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

³⁰ He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

³² So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

³³ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

³⁴ Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.