Esther 2
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
1After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
1これらのことの後、アハシュエロス王の怒りが静まると、王はワシュティのこと、彼女がしたこと、そして彼女について定められたことを思い起こした。
2Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
2そこで王に仕える侍臣たちは言った。「王のために、容姿の美しい若い処女たちを捜させましょう。
3And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
3王国の全州に役人を任命し、美しい若い処女たちをスサの宮殿の後宮に集め、女たちを預かる王の宦官ヘガイの管理下に置かせてください。また、彼女たちに身支度の品を与えさせてください。
4And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
4そして王の心にかなう娘を、ワシュティに代わる王妃としてください。」この提案は王の心にかない、王はそのようにした。
5¶ Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
5さて、スサの宮殿にモルデカイというユダヤ人がいた。彼はベニヤミン人キシュの子シムイの子ヤイルの子であった。
6Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
6このキシュは、バビロンの王ネブカデネザルがユダの王エコニヤとともに捕らえ移した捕囚の民とともに、エルサレムから連れ去られた者であった。
7And he brought up Hadassah, that is , Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
7モルデカイは、叔父の娘ハダサ、すなわちエステルを育てていた。彼女には父も母もなかった。この娘は姿も顔立ちも美しかった。父母の死後、モルデカイは彼女を自分の娘として引き取ったのである。
8¶ So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
8王の命令と法令が布告され、多くの娘たちがスサの宮殿に集められてヘガイの管理下に置かれたとき、エステルも王宮に連れて来られ、女たちを預かるヘガイの管理下に置かれた。
9And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
9この娘はヘガイの心にかない、その好意を得た。彼はすぐに身支度の品と特別な食事を彼女に与え、王宮から選ばれた七人の侍女も付けた。そして彼女と侍女たちを後宮の最良の場所に移した。
10Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it .
10エステルは自分の民族も親族も明かさなかった。モルデカイが、明かしてはならないと命じていたからである。
11And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
11モルデカイは毎日、エステルが無事でいるか、これからどうなるかを知ろうとして、後宮の中庭の前を行き来した。
12¶ Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit , six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
12それぞれの娘がアハシュエロス王のもとへ行く番は、十二か月に及ぶ身を清める期間を終えた後に来た。その期間は、六か月を没薬の油で、さらに六か月を香料や女の身支度の品で整えるものだった。
13Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.
13娘が王のもとへ行くときには、後宮から王宮へ携えて行きたいものは何でも与えられた。
14In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
14夕方に王のもとへ入り、翌朝には、側女たちを預かる王の宦官シャアシュガズの管理する第二の後宮へ移された。王が彼女を気に入り、名を呼んで召さない限り、二度と王のもとへ行くことはなかった。
15¶ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
15モルデカイが娘として引き取った、叔父アビハイルの娘エステルの番が来たとき、彼女は女たちを預かる王の宦官ヘガイが勧めたもの以外、何も求めなかった。エステルは見る者すべてから好意を受けた。
16So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
16エステルがアハシュエロス王の王宮へ迎え入れられたのは、王の治世第七年、第十の月、すなわちテベテの月であった。
17And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
17王はどの女よりもエステルを愛した。彼女はほかのすべての処女にまさって王の好意と慈しみを受けたので、王はその頭に王冠を置き、ワシュティに代わる王妃とした。
18Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
18王はすべての高官と家臣のために、エステルの祝宴と呼ばれる盛大な宴を催した。また諸州に休日を布告し、王の気前のよさにふさわしく贈り物を配った。
19And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.
19処女たちが二度目に集められたとき、モルデカイは王の門に座っていた。
20Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
20エステルはモルデカイに命じられたとおり、まだ自分の親族も民族も明かしていなかった。彼女は養育されていたころと同じように、モルデカイの言いつけに従っていた。
21¶ In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
21そのころ、モルデカイが王の門に座っていると、入口を守る王の宦官ビッグタンとテレシュの二人が怒りを抱き、アハシュエロス王に手を下そうと企てた。
22And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.
22この企てを知ったモルデカイは王妃エステルに知らせ、エステルはモルデカイの名によって王に報告した。
23And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
23この件は調査され、事実であると判明したので、二人は木に掛けられた。このことは王の前で年代記に記された。
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