Genesis 41
1 A full two years later, Pharaoh had a dream that he was standing beside the River Nile.
二年の後パロは夢を見た。夢に、彼はナイル川のほとりに立っていた。
2 He saw seven cows coming up from the river. They looked well-fed and healthy as they grazed among the reeds.
すると、その川から美しい、肥え太った七頭の雌牛が上がってきて葦を食っていた。
3 Then he saw another seven cows that came up behind them. They looked ugly and skinny as they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
その後、また醜い、やせ細った他の七頭の雌牛が川から上がってきて、川の岸にいた雌牛のそばに立ち、
4 Then the ugly, skinny cows ate the well-fed, healthy cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
その醜い、やせ細った雌牛が、あの美しい、肥えた七頭の雌牛を食いつくした。ここでパロは目が覚めた。
5 Pharaoh fell asleep again and had a second dream. Seven heads of grain were growing on one stalk, ripe and healthy.
彼はまた眠って、再び夢を見た。夢に、一本の茎に太った良い七つの穂が出てきた。
6 Then seven heads of grain grew up after them, thin and dried by the east wind.
その後また、やせて、東風に焼けた七つの穂が出てきて、
7 The seven thin and dried heads of grain swallowed up the ripe and healthy ones. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized he'd been dreaming.
そのやせた穂が、あの太って実った七つの穂をのみつくした。ここでパロは目が覚めたが、それは夢であった。
8 The next morning Pharaoh was worried by his dreams, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men in Egypt. Pharaoh told them about his dreams, but no one could interpret their meaning for him.
朝になって、パロは心が騒ぎ、人をつかわして、エジプトのすべての魔術師とすべての知者とを呼び寄せ、彼らに夢を告げたが、これをパロに解き明かしうる者がなかった。
9 But then the chief cupbearer spoke up. “Today I've just remembered a bad mistake I've made,” he explained.
そのとき給仕役の長はパロに告げて言った、「わたしはきょう、自分のあやまちを思い出しました。
10 “Your Majesty was angry with some of your officials and you imprisoned me in the house of the commander of the guard, along with the chief baker.
かつてパロがしもべらに向かって憤り、わたしと料理役の長とを侍衛長の家の監禁所にお入れになった時、
11 We each had a dream. They were different dreams, each with its own meaning.
わたしも彼も一夜のうちに夢を見、それぞれ意味のある夢を見ましたが、
12 A young Hebrew was there with us, a slave of the commander of the guard. When we told him our dreams, he interpreted for us the meaning of our different dreams.
そこに侍衛長のしもべで、ひとりの若いヘブルびとがわれわれと共にいたので、彼に話したところ、彼はわれわれの夢を解き明かし、その夢によって、それぞれ解き明かしをしました。
13 Everything happened just as he said it would—I was given back my job and the baker was hanged.”
そして彼が解き明かしたとおりになって、パロはわたしを職に返し、彼を木に掛けられました」。
14 Pharaoh summoned Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the prison. After he'd shaved and changed his clothes, he was presented to Pharaoh.
そこでパロは人をつかわしてヨセフを呼んだ。人々は急いで彼を地下の獄屋から出した。ヨセフは、ひげをそり、着物を着替えてパロのもとに行った。
15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, but no one can interpret its meaning. But I've heard that when someone tells you a dream you know how to interpret it.”
パロはヨセフに言った、「わたしは夢を見たが、これを解き明かす者がない。聞くところによると、あなたは夢を聞いて、解き明かしができるそうだ」。
16 “It's not me who can do this,” Joseph replied. “But God will explain its meaning to set Your Majesty's mind at rest.”
ヨセフはパロに答えて言った、「いいえ、わたしではありません。神がパロに平安をお告げになりましょう」。
17 Pharaoh explained to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile.
パロはヨセフに言った、「夢にわたしは川の岸に立っていた。
18 I saw seven cows coming up from the river. They looked well-fed and healthy as they grazed among the reeds.
その川から肥え太った、美しい七頭の雌牛が上がってきて葦を食っていた。
19 Then I saw another seven cows that came up behind them. They looked sickly and ugly and skinny—I've never seen such ugly cows in the whole of Egypt!
その後、弱く、非常に醜い、やせ細った他の七頭の雌牛がまた上がってきた。わたしはエジプト全国で、このような醜いものをまだ見たことがない。
20 These skinny, ugly cows ate the first seven healthy-looking cows.
ところがそのやせた醜い雌牛が、初めの七頭の肥えた雌牛を食いつくしたが、
21 But afterwards you couldn't tell they'd eaten them because they looked just as skinny and ugly as before. Then I woke up.
腹にはいっても、腹にはいった事が知れず、やはり初めのように醜かった。ここでわたしは目が覚めた。
22 Then I fell asleep again. In my second dream I saw seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, ripe and healthy.
わたしはまた夢をみた。一本の茎に七つの実った良い穂が出てきた。
23 Then seven heads of grain grew up after them, withered and thin and dried by the east wind.
その後、やせ衰えて、東風に焼けた七つの穂が出てきたが、
24 The seven thin heads of grain swallowed up the healthy ones. I told all this to the magicians, but none of them could explain its meaning to me.”
そのやせた穂が、あの七つの良い穂をのみつくした。わたしは魔術師に話したが、わたしにそのわけを示しうる者はなかった」。
25 “Pharaoh's dreams mean the same thing,” Joseph responded. “God is telling Pharaoh what he is going to do.
ヨセフはパロに言った、「パロの夢は一つです。神がこれからしようとすることをパロに示されたのです。
26 The seven good cows and the seven good heads of grain represent seven good years of harvest. The dreams mean the same thing.
七頭の良い雌牛は七年です。七つの良い穂も七年で、夢は一つです。
27 The seven skinny and ugly cows that came after them and the seven thin heads of grain dried by the east wind represent seven years of famine.
あとに続いて、上がってきた七頭のやせた醜い雌牛は七年で、東風に焼けた実の入らない七つの穂は七年のききんです。
28 It's just as I told Your Majesty—God has shown Pharaoh what he is going to do.
わたしがパロに申し上げたように、神がこれからしようとすることをパロに示されたのです。
29 There are going to be seven years with plenty of food produced throughout the whole country of Egypt.
エジプト全国に七年の大豊作があり、
30 But after them will come seven years of famine. People will forget the time when there was plenty of food throughout Egypt. Famine will ruin the country.
その後七年のききんが起り、その豊作はみなエジプトの国で忘れられて、そのききんは国を滅ぼすでしょう。
31 The time of plenty will be completely forgotten because the famine that follows it will be so terrible.
後に来るそのききんが、非常に激しいから、その豊作は国のうちで記憶されなくなるでしょう。
32 The fact that the dream was repeated twice means that it has definitely been decided by God, and that God is going to do this soon.
パロが二度重ねて夢を見られたのは、この事が神によって定められ、神がすみやかにこれをされるからです。
33 So Your Majesty should choose a man with insight and wisdom, and put him in charge of the whole country of Egypt.
それゆえパロは今、さとく、かつ賢い人を尋ね出してエジプトの国を治めさせなさい。
34 Your Majesty should also appoint officials to be in charge of the land, and have them collect one-fifth of the produce of the country during the seven years of plenty.
パロはこうして国中に監督を置き、その七年の豊作のうちに、エジプトの国の産物の五分の一を取り、
35 They should collect all the food during the good years that are soon coming, and store the grain under Pharaoh's authority, keeping it under guard to provide food for the towns.
続いて来る良い年々のすべての食糧を彼らに集めさせ、穀物を食糧として、パロの手で町々にたくわえ守らせなさい。
36 This will be a food reserve for the country during the seven years of famine so that the people won't die of starvation.”
こうすれば食糧は、エジプトの国に臨む七年のききんに備えて、この国のためにたくわえとなり、この国はききんによって滅びることがないでしょう」。
37 Pharaoh and all his officials thought Joseph's proposal was a good idea.
この事はパロとそのすべての家来たちの目にかなった。
38 So Pharaoh asked them, “Where can we find a man like this who has the spirit of God in him?”
そこでパロは家来たちに言った、「われわれは神の霊をもつこのような人を、ほかに見いだし得ようか」。
39 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, telling him, “Since God has revealed to you all this, and there's no one like you with such insight and wisdom,
またパロはヨセフに言った、「神がこれを皆あなたに示された。あなたのようにさとく賢い者はない。
40 you will be in charge of all my affairs, and all my people will obey your orders. Only I with my status as king will be greater than you.”
あなたはわたしの家を治めてください。わたしの民はみなあなたの言葉に従うでしょう。わたしはただ王の位でだけあなたにまさる」。
41 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Look, I'm putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
パロは更にヨセフに言った、「わたしはあなたをエジプト全国のつかさとする」。
42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in fine linen clothes and placed a golden chain around his neck.
そしてパロは指輪を手からはずして、ヨセフの手にはめ、亜麻布の衣服を着せ、金の鎖をくびにかけ、
43 He had Joseph ride in the chariot designated for his second-in-command while his attendants went ahead, shouting, “Bow down!” This is how Pharaoh gave Joseph authority over all of Egypt.
自分の第二の車に彼を乗せ、「ひざまずけ」とその前に呼ばわらせ、こうして彼をエジプト全国のつかさとした。
44 Then Pharaoh told Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission nobody will lift a hand or a foot anywhere in the whole country.”
ついでパロはヨセフに言った、「わたしはパロである。あなたの許しがなければエジプト全国で、だれも手足を上げることはできない」。
45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and arranged for him to marry Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. This is how Joseph rose to power over the whole of Egypt.
パロはヨセフの名をザフナテ・パネアと呼び、オンの祭司ポテペラの娘アセナテを妻として彼に与えた。ヨセフはエジプトの国を巡った。
46 Joseph was thirty when he started working for Pharaoh, king of Egypt. After he had left Pharaoh, Joseph traveled on an inspection tour throughout Egypt.
ヨセフがエジプトの王パロの前に立った時は三十歳であった。ヨセフはパロの前を出て、エジプト全国をあまねく巡った。
47 During the seven years of good harvests, the land produced plenty of food.
さて七年の豊作のうちに地は豊かに物を産した。
48 He collected all the food during the seven good years, and he stored the grain produced in the local fields in each town.
そこでヨセフはエジプトの国にできたその七年間の食糧をことごとく集め、その食糧を町々に納めさせた。すなわち町の周囲にある畑の食糧をその町の中に納めさせた。
49 Joseph piled up so much grain that it was like the sand of the seashore. Eventually he stopped keeping records because there was just so much!
ヨセフは穀物を海の砂のように、非常に多くたくわえ、量りきれなくなったので、ついに量ることをやめた。
50 It was during this time, before the years of famine came, that Joseph had two sons by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
ききんの年の来る前にヨセフにふたりの子が生れた。これらはオンの祭司ポテペラの娘アセナテが産んだのである。
51 Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh, because he said, “The Lord has made me forget all my troubles and all my father's family.”
ヨセフは長子の名をマナセと名づけて言った、「神がわたしにすべての苦難と父の家のすべての事を忘れさせられた」。
52 His second son he named Ephraim, because he said, “God has made me fruitful in the country of my misery.”
また次の子の名をエフライムと名づけて言った、「神がわたしを悩みの地で豊かにせられた」。
53 The seven years of plenty in Egypt came to an end,
エジプトの国にあった七年の豊作が終り、
54 and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other countries but the whole of Egypt had food.
ヨセフの言ったように七年のききんが始まった。そのききんはすべての国にあったが、エジプト全国には食物があった。
55 When all of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, and he told everyone, “Go and see Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
やがてエジプト全国が飢えた時、民はパロに食物を叫び求めた。そこでパロはすべてのエジプトびとに言った、「ヨセフのもとに行き、彼の言うようにせよ」。
56 The famine had spread all over the country so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the people of Egypt. The famine was very bad in Egypt,
ききんが地の全面にあったので、ヨセフはすべての穀倉を開いて、エジプトびとに売った。ききんはますますエジプトの国に激しくなった。
57 in fact the famine was very bad everywhere, so people from other countries all around came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph.
ききんが全地に激しくなったので、諸国の人々がエジプトのヨセフのもとに穀物を買うためにきた。
