Mui 47
1 Amaiba: le, Yousefe da yolalali biyale gala amo Felouma oule asi. E da Felouma amane sia: i, “Na ada amola nolalali da Ga: ina: ne soge fisili guiguda: misi. Ilia lai gebo amola gagui liligi huluane oule misi. Ilia da wali Gousiene sogega esala.”
Joseph chose five of his [older] brothers to go with him to talk to the king. He introduced his [older] brothers to the king, and then he said, “My father and my [older] brothers [and younger brother] have come from the Canaan region. They have brought all their sheep and goats and cattle and everything else that they own, and they are living now in Goshen region.”
2 Amalalu, e da yolalali ili Felouma gousa: ma: ne oule misi.
3 Felou da ilima amane adole ba: i, “Dilia da adi hawa: hamosala: ?” Ilia da bu adole i, “Ninia da ninia aowalali defele, lai gebo fi ouligisu dunu esala.
The king asked the brothers, “What work do you do?” They replied, “We are shepherds, just as our ancestors were.”
4 Ninia soge Ga: ina: ne amoga ha: i bagade ganebeba: le, ninia lai gebo da gisi hamedafa. Amaiba: le, ninia da amo soge guiguda: fimusa: misi. Ninia da Gousiene soge amo ganodini fimusa: , nini da dima ha: giwane edegesa.”
They also said to him, “We have come here to live for a while in this land, because the famine is very severe in Canaan, and our animals have no (pasture/grass to eat) there. So now, please let us live in the Goshen region.”
5 Felou da Yousefema amane sia: i, “Dia eda amola diolalali ili da doaga: beba: le,
The king said to Joseph, “I am happy that your father and your [older] brothers [and younger brother] have come to you.
6 Idibidi soge huluane da ilia soge. Gousiene soge da Idibidi soge bisili noga: i gala. Ilia da amogai fimu da defea. Amola ilia fi amo ganodini lai gebo ouligisu dunu ida: iwane esalea, defea, amo dunu da na lai gebo ouligima: ne sia: ma.”
They can live wherever you want in the whole country of Egypt. Give your father and your brothers the best part of the land. They can live in Goshen. And if you know that any of them have any special ability to work with livestock, have them be in charge of my own livestock, too.”
7 Amalalu, Yousefe da ea ada Ya: igobe amo Felouma gousa: musa: oule misi. Ya: igobe da Felouma amane sia: i, “Gode da di hahawane dogolegele fidimu da defea.”
Then Joseph brought his father Jacob [into the palace] and introduced him to the king. Jacob asked God to bless the king.
8 Felou da Ya: igobema amane sia: i, “Dia lalelegele, ode habodayane esalabela: ?”
Then the king asked Jacob, “How old are you?”
9 Ya: igobe da bu adole i, “Na da wali ode 130 amoga udigili lalu. Na aowalali da ode bagohame hahawane lalu. Be na esalebe ode da bagahame, amola se nabasu galu.”
Jacob replied, “I have been traveling around for 130 years. I have not lived as long as my ancestors, but my life has been full of troubles.”
10 Ya: igobe da Felouma Gode e hahawane dogolegele fidima: ne amola “asigibio”, sia: nanu, yolesili asi.
Then Jacob again [asked God to] bless the king, and left him.
11 Amalalu, Yousefe da fidibiba: le, ea ada amo yolalali ilia da Idibidi ganodini hahawane fi. Ilia da Felou ea sia: defele, moilai La: mesisi amo gadenene fi galu.
[That is how Joseph enabled his father and older] brothers [and younger brother] to start living in Egypt. As the king had commanded, he gave them property in the best part of the land, in [Goshen, which is now called] Rameses.
12 Yousefe da ea ada amola yolalali ilima amola ea ada fi huluane amola mano fa: nodafa lalelegei, ilima ha: i manu i. Ha: Bagade
Joseph also provided food for all his father’s family. The amounts that he gave them were according to how many children each of them had.
13 Soge huluane amo ganodini da ha: bagade ba: i. Ha: i manu hamedafa ba: i. Idibidi dunu amola Ga: ina: ne dunu huluane da ha: iba: le, gasa hame ba: i.
There were no crops growing in the whole region, because the famine was very severe. The people of Egypt and Canaan [MTY] became weak because they did not have enough food to eat.
14 Ilia da gagoma amola bali amo muniga lai. Amo muni Yousefe da Felou ea diasuga gaguli asi.
Joseph collected all the money that the people in Egypt and Canaan paid for the grain they were buying from him, and he brought the money to the king’s palace.
15 Muni huluane Idibidi amola Ga: ina: ne amo ganodini ebelei ba: loba, Idibidi dunu da Yousefema misini, amane sia: i, “Ninima ha: i manu ima! Nini bogogia: sa: besa: le fidima! Ninia muni da ebelei dagoi!”
When the people of Egypt and Canaan had spent all their money for grain, they all kept coming to Joseph and saying, “Please give us some food! If you do not give us grain, we will die [RHQ]! We have used all our money to buy food, and we have no money left!”
16 Yousefe da ilima bu adole i, “Dilia lai gebo oule misa. Dilia muni ebeleiba: le, na da dilia lai gebo bidi lale, ha: i manu amoga dabemu.”
Joseph replied, “Since your money is all gone, bring me your livestock. If you do that, I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”
17 Amaiba: le, ilia da ilia lai gebo amo Yousefema oule misi amola e da ilia hosi, sibi, goudi, bulamagau, dougi, amo lale, ilima ha: i manu dabe i.
So they brought their livestock to Joseph. He gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle, and their donkeys.
18 Amo ode da gidigili, eno ba: loba, ilia da Yousefema misini amane sia: i “Ninia muni da ebelei dagoi amola ninia lai gebo huluane di da lai dagoi. Amo ninia da dima hame wamolegemu. Wali dima imunu liligi da hame. Ninia da: i hodo amola ninia soge fawane diala.
The next year they came to him again and said, “We cannot hide this from you: We have no more money, and now our livestock belongs to you. We have only our bodies and our land to give to you. We have nothing else left.
19 Nini bogogia: sa: besa: le, nini fidima. Ninia soge da ha: i manu mae bugili, udigili dialumu da defea hame. Ninia da: i hodo amola ninia soge, bidi lama. Ninia da Felou ea udigili hawa: hamosu dunu esalumu amola e da ninia soge gagumu. Nini mae bogoma: ne ha: i manu ninima ima. Amola ninia sogega bu sagama: ne, hawa: bugima: ne ninima ima.”
(If you do not give us some food, we will die!/Do you want to watch us die?) [RHQ] If you do not give us seeds, our fields will become useless [IDM]. Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we will be the king’s slaves, and he will own the land. Give us seeds that we can plant and grow food, in order that we will not die, and in order that our land will not become like a desert.”
20 Yousefe da soge huluane Idibidi ganodini amo bidi lale, Felouma i. Ha: da gasa bagadeba: le Idibidi dunu huluanedafa da ilia soge gagumu hamedeiwane ba: i. Soge huluane da Felou ea soge fawane ba: i.
So Joseph bought all the farms in Egypt for the king. The people of Egypt each sold their land to him because the famine was very severe, [and they had no other way to get money to buy food]. So all the farms became the king’s farms.
21 Amola Yousefe da Idibidi dunu huluanedafa, amo udigili hawa: hamosu dunu hamoi.
As a result, Joseph caused all the people from one border of the country to the other to become the king’s slaves.
22 Soge afae afae, e da hame bidi lai. Amo da gobele salasu dunu ilia soge. Felou da ili esaloma: ne, muni ilima i. Amaiba: le, ilia da ili soge hame bidi lai.
But he did not buy the priests’ land, because they received food from the king regularly, so the food that the king gave them was enough for them. That is the reason they did not sell their land to him.
23 Yousefe da dunu huluane ilima amane sia: i, “Ba: ma! Na da Felouma ima: ne, dilia da: i hodo amola dilia soge bidi lai dagoi. Amo hawa: dilia sogega bu sagamusa: , amo lama.
Joseph said to the people [who sold themselves and their land to him], “Listen to me! Today I have bought you and your land for the king. So here are seeds for you so that you can plant them in the ground.
24 Be ha: i manu faisu eso amoga dilia gagoma amola bali biyale fifili, afadafa Felouma ima. Eno hame i diala amo dili hawa: bugimusa: amola dilia amola dilia sosogo fi, amo moma: ne lama.”
But when you harvest the crop, you must give one-fifth of the crop to the king. The rest of the crop you can keep, to be seed to plant in the fields, and to be food for you and your children and for everyone else in your household to eat.”
25 Ilia bu adole i, “Di da nini esalusu gaga: i dagoi. Di da nini noga: le fidi. Ninia Felou ea udigili hawa: hamosu dunu esalumu da defea.”
They replied, “You have saved our lives! We want you to be pleased with us. And we will be the king’s slaves.”
26 Amaiba: le, Yousefe da sema hamoi, amane, ‘Idibidi soge ganodini, ha: i manu fai huluane ilia da biyale fifili, amo afadafa Felouma ima: ne sia: i. Amo sema da wali diala. Be Felou da gobele salasu dunu ilia soge fawane hame lalegagui.
So Joseph made a law about all the land in Egypt, stating that one-fifth of the crops that are harvested belongs to the king. That law still exists. Only the land that belonged to the priests did not become the king’s land.
27 Isala: ili dunu da Idibidi ganodini Gousiene sogega esalu, mano bagohame lai, amola bagade gagui dunu ba: i.
Jacob and his family started to live in Egypt, in the Goshen region. They acquired property there. Many children were born to them there. As a result, their population increased greatly.
28 Ya: igobe da Idibidi soge ganodini ode 17 esalu. E da ode 147 amoga doaga: i.
Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years. Altogether he lived 147 years.
29 Ea bogomu eso gadenei ba: loba, e da eagofe Yousefe amo misa: ne sia: ne, ema amane sia: i, “Dia lobo amo na masele hagudu ligisima. Nama dafawanedafa ilegele sia: ma, amo di da na da: i hodo Idibidi soge ganodini hame uli dogomu.
When it was almost time for him to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have pleased you, make a solemn promise that you will be kind to me and faithfully do what I am now asking you: When I die, do not bury me here in Egypt.
30 Na da na aowalali amo ilia uli dogosu amo gadenene dialumu hanai galebe. Na da: i hodo di gaguli asili, ilia uli dogoi sogebi amoga na uli dogoma.” Yousefe da bu adole i, “Na da dia sia: i defele hamomu.”
Instead, take my body out of Egypt, and bury it in Canaan where my ancestors are buried.” Joseph replied, “I will do that.”
31 Ya: igobe da amane sia: i, “Gode ba: ma: ne, di da dia sia: i defele hamoma: ne dafawane ilegele sia: ma!” Yousefe da amo dafawane ilegele sia: i, amola Ya: igobe da ea dia heda: su da: iya nodoi.
Jacob said, “(Swear/Solemnly promise) to me that you will do it!” So Joseph swore to do it. Then Jacob turned over in bed, bowed his head, and worshiped God.
