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創世記 21
Japanese Living Bible
創世記 21
Japanese Living Bible
イサクの誕生
21 1-2 さて神は、約束どおりのことをなさいました。サラは子どもを身ごもり、年老いたアブラハムの息子を産んだのです。その時期も、神が言われたとおりでした。 3 アブラハムはその子をイサク〔「笑い声」の意〕と名づけました。 4-5 そして、生まれて八日目に、神から命じられたとおり、割礼を受けさせました。この時、アブラハムは百歳でした。
6 サラは言いました。「神様は、私を笑えるようにしてくださった。私に赤ちゃんができたと知ったら、皆さんがいっしょに喜んでくれるでしょうね。 7 まるで夢のようだわ。年老いた主人のために、赤ちゃんを産んだのですもの。」
ハガルとイシュマエル
8 子どもは日を追って大きくなり、やがて乳離れする時になりました。アブラハムは息子の成長を祝ってパーティーを開きました。 9 ところが、エジプト人の女ハガルがアブラハムに産んだイシュマエルが、弟イサクをからかい半分にいじめているのを見ました。それを見つけたサラは、 10 アブラハムに訴えました。「どうかあの女奴隷と子どもを追い払ってください。跡継ぎはイサクと決まっています。」
11 アブラハムは困り果てました。イシュマエルも自分の子どもなのです。 12 すると神は、アブラハムを力づけました。「あの子と女奴隷のことは心配しなくてよい。サラの言うとおりにしなさい。わたしの約束は間違いなくイサクによって成就する。 13 しかし、ハガルの子もあなたの息子だ。必ずやその子孫の国を大きくしよう。」
14 翌朝早く、アブラハムは、さっそく食べ物を用意し、水を入れた皮袋をハガルに背負わせると、息子といっしょに送り出しました。二人はベエル・シェバの荒野まで来ましたが、どこといって行く先はありません。ただあてもなくさまようばかりです。 15 やがて飲み水も底をつきました。もう絶望です。彼女は子を灌木の下に置き、 16 自分は百メートルほど離れた所に座りました。「とても、あの子が死ぬのを見ていられない。」そう言うと、わっと泣きくずれました。 17 その時、天から神の使いの声が響きました。神が子どもの泣き声を聞かれたのです。「ハガルよ、どうしたのだ。何も恐れることはないのだよ。あそこで泣いているあの子の声を、神様はちゃんと聞いてくださった。 18 さあ早く行って子どもをしっかり抱きしめ、慰めてやりなさい。あの子の子孫を必ず大きな国にすると約束しよう。」
19 こう言われて、ふと気がつくと、なんと井戸があるではありませんか。神がハガルの目を開いたので、彼女は井戸を見つけることができたのです。彼女は喜んで水を皮袋の口までいっぱいにし、息子にも飲ませました。 20-21 神に祝福されて、少年はパランの荒野でたくましく成長し、やがて弓矢の達人になりました。そして、母親がエジプトから迎えた娘と結婚しました。
アビメレクとの契約
22 このころのことです。アビメレク王と軍の司令官ピコルとが、アブラハムのところに来て言いました。「あなたは何をしても神様に守られておられる。それは、だれが見てもはっきりしています。 23 そこで、折り入ってお願いしたい。私や息子、孫たちを裏切ったりせず、今後もわが国と友好関係を保っていくことを、神の名にかけて誓っていただきたい。あなたにはこれまで、ずいぶんよくしてきたはずだから、あなたも正義を尽くしてほしい。」
24 「いいですとも、誓いましょう」とアブラハムは答えました。 25 またアブラハムは、王の部下たちが井戸を奪い取ったことで、アビメレクに抗議しました。
26 「はて、それは初耳です。いったいだれがそんなことを。その時すぐ言ってくださればよかったのに。」
27 こうして契約を結ぶことになり、アブラハムはそのしるしに、羊と牛を王に与えて、いけにえとしました。
28-29 ところが、アブラハムが雌の子羊を七頭別にとっておいたのを見て、王は尋ねました。「これはどういうわけか。」
30 「この子羊は王様への贈り物です。これを二人の間の証拠として、この井戸が私のものだということをはっきりさせようと思いまして。」
31 そののち、この井戸はベエル・シェバ〔「誓いの井戸」の意〕と呼ばれるようになりました。王とアブラハムが、そこで契約を結んだからです。 32 その後、王と司令官ピコルは、国へ帰りました。
33 アブラハムは井戸のそばに柳を一本植え、そこで主に祈りました。永遠の神に契約の証人となっていただくためです。 34 こうしてアブラハムは、ペリシテ人の地に長く住むことになりました。
Genesis 21
New International Version
Genesis 21
New International Version
The Birth of Isaac
21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah(A) as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.(B) 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son(C) to Abraham in his old age,(D) at the very time God had promised him.(E) 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac[a](F) to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him,(G) as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old(H) when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter,(I) and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”(J)
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
8 The child grew and was weaned,(K) and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham(L) was mocking,(M) 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman(N) and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”(O)
11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.(P) 12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[b] will be reckoned.(Q) 13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation(R) also, because he is your offspring.”
14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar.(S) He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.(T)
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[c] began to sob.(U)
17 God heard the boy crying,(V) and the angel of God(W) called to Hagar from heaven(X) and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid;(Y) God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.(Z)”
19 Then God opened her eyes(AA) and she saw a well of water.(AB) So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy(AC) as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. 21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran,(AD) his mother got a wife for him(AE) from Egypt.
The Treaty at Beersheba
22 At that time Abimelek(AF) and Phicol the commander of his forces(AG) said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.(AH) 23 Now swear(AI) to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants.(AJ) Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”(AK)
24 Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.(AL) 26 But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”
27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.(AM) 28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, 29 and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
30 He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness(AN) that I dug this well.(AO)”
31 So that place was called Beersheba,[d](AP) because the two men swore an oath(AQ) there.
32 After the treaty(AR) had been made at Beersheba,(AS) Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces(AT) returned to the land of the Philistines.(AU) 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree(AV) in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord,(AW) the Eternal God.(AX) 34 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines(AY) for a long time.
Footnotes
- Genesis 21:3 Isaac means he laughs.
- Genesis 21:12 Or seed
- Genesis 21:16 Hebrew; Septuagint the child
- Genesis 21:31 Beersheba can mean well of seven and well of the oath.
Genesis 21
King James Version
Genesis 21
King James Version
21 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
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