创世记 41
1 过了两年，法老做梦，梦见自己站在河边，
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
2 有七只母牛从河里上来，又美好又肥壮，在芦荻中吃草。
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
3 随后又有七只母牛从河里上来，又丑陋又干瘦，与那七只母牛一同站在河边。
Soon seven other cows, unhealthy-looking and thin, came up behind them from the Nile [River]. They stood alongside the fat cows that were on the riverbank.
4 这又丑陋又干瘦的七只母牛吃尽了那又美好又肥壮的七只母牛。法老就醒了。
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
5 他又睡着，第二回做梦，梦见一棵麦子长了七个穗子，又肥大又佳美，
The king went to sleep again, and he had another dream. This time he saw seven heads of grain that were full of kernels of grain and ripe, and all growing on one stalk.
6 随后又长了七个穗子，又细弱又被东风吹焦了。
After that, the king saw that seven other heads of grain sprouted on that (OR, on another) stalk. They were thin and had been dried up by the hot east wind.
7 这细弱的穗子吞了那七个又肥大又饱满的穗子。法老醒了，不料是个梦。
Then the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven ripe full heads. Then the king woke up. He realized that he had been dreaming.
8 到了早晨，法老心里不安，就差人召了埃及所有的术士和博士来；法老就把所做的梦告诉他们，却没有人能给法老圆解。
But the next morning he was worried about the meaning of the dream. So he summoned all the magicians and wise men who lived in Egypt. He told them what he had dreamed, but none of them could tell him the meaning of the two dreams.
9 那时酒政对法老说：“我今日想起我的罪来。
Then the chief drink-server said to the king, “Now I remember something that I should have told you! I made a mistake by forgetting to tell it to you.
10 从前法老恼怒臣仆，把我和膳长下在护卫长府内的监里。
One time you were angry with two of us. So you put me and the chief baker in the prison in the house of the captain of the palace guards.
11 我们二人同夜各做一梦，各梦都有讲解。
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
12 在那里同着我们有一个希伯来的少年人，是护卫长的仆人，我们告诉他，他就把我们的梦圆解，是按着各人的梦圆解的。
There was a young Hebrew man there with us. He was a servant of the captain of the palace guards. We told him what we had dreamed, and he told us what our dreams meant. He told each of us the meaning of our dreams.
13 后来正如他给我们圆解的成就了：我官复原职，膳长被挂起来了。”
And what happened was exactly the same as the meanings that he told us: You said I could have my previous job again, but the other man was killed by being hanged. [The Hebrew man’s name was Joseph].”
14 法老遂即差人去召约瑟，他们便急忙带他出监，他就剃头，刮脸，换衣裳，进到法老面前。
When the king heard that, he told some servants to bring Joseph to him, and they quickly brought Joseph out of the prison. Joseph shaved and put on better clothes, and then he went and stood in front of the king.
15 法老对约瑟说：“我做了一梦，没有人能解；我听见人说，你听了梦就能解。”
The king said to Joseph, “I had two dreams, and no one can tell me what they mean. But someone told me that when you hear someone tell about a dream he has had, you can tell that person what the dream means.”
16 约瑟回答法老说：“这不在乎我， 神必将平安的话回答法老。”
But Joseph replied to the king, “No, I cannot do that. It is God who knows the meaning of dreams, but he will enable me to tell you their meaning, and they will mean something good.”
17 法老对约瑟说：“我梦见我站在河边，
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
18 有七只母牛从河里上来，又肥壮又美好，在芦荻中吃草。
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
19 随后又有七只母牛上来，又软弱又丑陋又干瘦，在埃及遍地，我没有见过这样不好的。
Soon seven other cows, ugly and thin ones, came up behind them from the river. I never saw such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
20 这又干瘦又丑陋的母牛吃尽了那以先的七只肥母牛，
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 吃了以后却看不出是吃了，那丑陋的样子仍旧和先前一样。我就醒了。
But afterwards, no one would have known that the thin cows ate them, because they were just as ugly as they were before. Then I woke up.
22 我又梦见一棵麦子，长了七个穗子，又饱满又佳美，
Then I had another dream. I saw seven heads of grain. They were full of kernels of grain and ripe, and they were all growing on one stalk.
23 随后又长了七个穗子，枯槁细弱，被东风吹焦了。
Then [to my surprise] I saw seven other heads of grain that sprouted. They were thin and had been dried up by the hot east wind.
24 这些细弱的穗子吞了那七个佳美的穗子。我将这梦告诉了术士，却没有人能给我解说。”
The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good heads. I told these dreams to the magicians, but none of them could explain to me what they meant.”
25 约瑟对法老说：“法老的梦乃是一个。 神已将所要做的事指示法老了。
Then Joseph said to the king, “Both your dreams have the same meaning. God is revealing to you in your dreams what he is about to do.
26 七只好母牛是七年，七个好穗子也是七年；这梦乃是一个。
The seven healthy cows represent seven years. The seven good heads of grain also represent seven years. The two dreams both have the same meaning.
27 那随后上来的七只又干瘦又丑陋的母牛是七年，那七个虚空、被东风吹焦的穗子也是七年，都是七个荒年。
The seven thin ugly cows that came up behind them and the seven worthless heads of grain that were dried up by the hot east wind each represent seven years (of famine/when food will be very scarce).
28 这就是我对法老所说， 神已将所要做的事显明给法老了。
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
29 埃及遍地必来七个大丰年，
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
30 随后又要来七个荒年，甚至在埃及地都忘了先前的丰收，全地必被饥荒所灭。
but after that there will be seven years (of famine/when food will be very scarce). Then people will forget all the years when there was plenty of food, because the famine that will come afterward will ruin the country.
31 因那以后的饥荒甚大，便不觉得先前的丰收了。
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
32 至于法老两回做梦，是因 神命定这事，而且必速速成就。
The reason God gave to you two dreams is that he [wants you to know] that this will happen, and he will cause it to happen very soon.
33 所以，法老当拣选一个有聪明有智慧的人，派他治理埃及地。
“Now I suggest that you should choose a man who is wise and can make good decisions. I suggest that you appoint him to direct the affairs of the whole country.
34 法老当这样行，又派官员管理这地。当七个丰年的时候，征收埃及地的五分之一，
You should also appoint supervisors over the country, in order that they can arrange to collect one-fifth of all the grain that is harvested during the seven years when food is plentiful.
35 叫他们把将来丰年一切的粮食聚敛起来，积蓄五谷，收存在各城里做食物，归于法老的手下。
They should collect this amount of grain during those seven years that are coming, when there will be plenty of food. You should supervise them as they store it in the cities.
36 所积蓄的粮食可以防备埃及地将来的七个荒年，免得这地被饥荒所灭。”
This grain should be stored so that it can be eaten during the seven years when there will be a famine here in Egypt, so that the people in this country will not die from hunger.”
37 法老和他一切臣仆都以这事为妙。
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
38 法老对臣仆说：“像这样的人，有 神的灵在他里头，我们岂能找得着呢？”
So the king said to them, “(Can we find any other man like Joseph, a man to whom God has given his Spirit?/It is not likely that we will find another man like this man, one to whom God has given his Spirit!)” [RHQ]
39 法老对约瑟说：“神既将这事都指示你，可见没有人像你这样有聪明有智慧。
Then the king said to Joseph, “Because God has revealed all this to you, it seems to me that there is no one who is as wise as you and who can decide wisely about things.
40 你可以掌管我的家；我的民都必听从你的话。惟独在宝座上我比你大。”
So I will put you in charge of everything in my palace. All the people here in Egypt must obey what you command. Only because I am king [MTY] will I have more authority than you.”
41 法老又对约瑟说：“我派你治理埃及全地。”
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
42 法老就摘下手上打印的戒指，戴在约瑟的手上，给他穿上细麻衣，把金链戴在他的颈项上，
The king took from his finger the ring that had his seal on it, and he put it on Joseph’s finger. He put robes made of fine linen on him, and he put a gold chain around his neck.
43 又叫约瑟坐他的副车，喝道的在前呼叫说：“跪下。”这样，法老派他治理埃及全地。
Then he arranged for Joseph to ride around in the chariot [that showed that he was] the second-most important man in the country. When Joseph rode in the chariot, men shouted to the people who were on the road in front of him, “Get off the road!” So the king put Joseph in charge of everything in the country.
44 法老对约瑟说：“我是法老，在埃及全地，若没有你的命令，不许人擅自办事。”
The king said to Joseph, “I am the king, but no one in the whole land of Egypt will do anything [IDM] if you do not permit them to do it.”
45 法老赐名给约瑟，叫撒发那忒·巴内亚，又将安城的祭司波提非拉的女儿亚西纳给他为妻。约瑟就出去巡行埃及地。
The king gave Joseph a new name, Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath to be his wife. She was the daughter of Potiphera, who was a priest in a temple in On [city]. Then Joseph became known (OR, traveled) through all the land of Egypt.
46 约瑟见埃及王法老的时候年三十岁。他从法老面前出去，遍行埃及全地。
Joseph was 30 years old when he started to work for the king of Egypt. To do his work, he left the king’s palace and traveled throughout Egypt.
47 七个丰年之内，地的出产极丰极盛，
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
48 约瑟聚敛埃及地七个丰年一切的粮食，把粮食积存在各城里；各城周围田地的粮食都积存在本城里。
As Joseph supervised them, his helpers collected one-fifth of all the grain that was produced during those years, and stored it in the cities. In each city, he had his helpers store up the grain that was grown in the fields that surrounded that city.
49 约瑟积蓄五谷甚多，如同海边的沙，无法计算，因为谷不可胜数。
Joseph had them store up a huge amount of grain. It looked as plentiful as the sand on the seashore. There was so much grain that after a while they stopped keeping records of how much grain was stored, because there was more grain than they could measure.
50 荒年未到以前，安城的祭司波提非拉的女儿亚西纳给约瑟生了两个儿子。
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
51 约瑟给长子起名叫玛拿西，因为他说：“神使我忘了一切的困苦和我父的全家。”
Joseph named the first one Manasseh, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘forget]’, because, he said, “God has caused me to forget all my troubles and all my father’s family.”
52 他给次子起名叫以法莲，因为他说：“神使我在受苦的地方昌盛。”
He named his second son Ephraim, [which means ‘to have children]’, because, he said, “God has given me children here in this land where I have suffered.”
53 埃及地的七个丰年一完，
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
54 七个荒年就来了。正如约瑟所说的，各地都有饥荒；惟独埃及全地有粮食。
Then the seven years of famine started, just as Joseph had predicted. There was also a famine in all the other nearby lands, but although the crops did not grow, there was food everywhere in Egypt, because of the grain they had stored up in the cities.
55 及至埃及全地有了饥荒，众民向法老哀求粮食，法老对他们说：“你们往约瑟那里去，凡他所说的，你们都要做。”
When all the people of [MTY] Egypt had eaten all of their own food and were still hungry, they begged the king for food. So the king told all the people of Egypt, “Go to Joseph, and do what he tells you to do.”
56 当时饥荒遍满天下，约瑟开了各处的仓，粜粮给埃及人；在埃及地饥荒甚大。
When the famine was very bad throughout the whole country, Joseph ordered his helpers to open the storehouses. Then they sold the grain in the storehouses to the people of Egypt, because the famine was very severe all over Egypt.
57 各地的人都往埃及去，到约瑟那里籴粮，因为天下的饥荒甚大。
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
