브리스 족속(Perizzites) 은 가나안 땅에 있던 이방 민족 중 하나이다.
아브라함이 가나안에 정착했을 때 이미 그곳에 있었다.
5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot ’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
하나님께서는 아브라함과 언약을 맺을 때에 브리스 사람들을 포함한 여러 부족들의 땅을 아브라함의 후손에게 주겠다고 하셨다.
18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates :
19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites , the Kadmonites,
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그리고 그 약속은 출애굽에 이은 가나안 정복전쟁을 통해 이뤄졌다.
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham ,
8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
이후 가나안 정복전쟁을 통해 이들을 점령하였으나,
“ ‘You went over the Jordan , and came to Jericho . The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
사사 시대에 이르러서는 전쟁이 점차 멎게되고 그들과 서서히 융화되는 모습을 보였다.
5 6 They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Solomon 시대에는 이스라엘의 영토에 남아 있던 브리스 족속들이 노예로 부려졌다.
20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites , the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel ;
21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
7 8 of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.
Ezra (Scholar) 와 함께 바벨론 귀환 시기에 유대인들이 그들과 어울리면서 결혼을 맺은 것을 알게 되었다. 이후 그들은 결단하여 이방인 아내들을 내보내게 된다.
1 Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel , the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites , the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”