Genesis 41
1 Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
Tam iki yıl sonra firavun bir düş gördü: Nil Irmağı'nın kıyısında duruyordu.
2 Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
Irmaktan güzel ve semiz yedi inek çıktı. Sazlar arasında otlamaya başladılar.
3 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.
Sonra yedi çirkin ve cılız inek çıktı. Irmağın kıyısında öbür ineklerin yanında durdular.
4 Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
Çirkin ve cılız inekler güzel ve semiz yedi ineği yiyince, firavun uyandı.
5 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.
Yine uykuya daldı, bu kez başka bir düş gördü: Bir sapta yedi güzel ve dolgun başak bitti.
6 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.
Sonra, cılız ve doğu rüzgarıyla kavrulmuş yedi başak daha bitti.
7 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.
Cılız başaklar, yedi güzel ve dolgun başağı yuttular. Firavun uyandı, düş gördüğünü anladı.
8 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.
Sabah uyandığında kaygılıydı. Bütün Mısırlı büyücüleri, bilgeleri çağırttı. Onlara gördüğü düşleri anlattı. Ama hiçbiri firavunun düşlerini yorumlayamadı.
9 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.
Bu arada baş saki firavuna, “Bugün suçumu itiraf etmeliyim” dedi,
10 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.
“Kullarına –bana ve fırıncıbaşına– öfkelenince bizi zindana, muhafız birliği komutanının evine kapattın.
11 While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
Bir gece ikimiz de düş gördük. Düşlerimiz farklı anlamlar taşıyordu.
12 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.
Orada bizimle birlikte muhafız birliği komutanının kölesi İbrani bir genç vardı. Gördüğümüz düşleri ona anlattık. Bize bir bir yorumladı.
13 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].”
Her şey onun yorumladığı gibi çıktı: Ben görevime döndüm, fırıncıbaşıysa asıldı.”
14 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.
Firavun Yusuf'u çağırttı. Hemen onu zindandan çıkardılar. Yusuf tıraş olup giysilerini değiştirdikten sonra firavunun huzuruna çıktı.
15 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.”
Firavun Yusuf'a, “Bir düş gördüm” dedi, “Ama kimse yorumlayamadı. Duyduğun her düşü yorumlayabildiğini işittim.”
16 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.”
Yusuf, “Ben yorumlayamam” dedi, “Firavuna en uygun yorumu Tanrı yapacaktır.”
17 The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
Firavun Yusuf'a anlatmaya başladı: “Düşümde bir ırmak kıyısında duruyordum.
18 Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
Irmaktan semiz ve güzel yedi inek çıktı. Sazlar arasında otlamaya başladılar.
19 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!
Sonra arık, çirkin, cılız yedi inek daha çıktı. Mısır'da onlar kadar çirkin inek görmedim.
20 The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
Cılız ve çirkin inekler ilk çıkan yedi semiz ineği yedi.
21 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.
Ancak kötü görünüşleri değişmedi. Sanki bir şey yememiş gibi görünüyorlardı. Sonra uyandım.
22 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.
“Bir de düşümde bir sapta dolgun ve güzel yedi başak bittiğini gördüm.
23 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.
Sonra solgun, cılız, doğu rüzgarının kavurduğu yedi başak daha bitti.
24 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.”
Cılız başaklar yedi güzel başağı yuttular. Büyücülere bunu anlattım. Ama hiçbiri yorumlayamadı.”
25 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.
Yusuf, “Efendim, iki düş de aynı anlamı taşıyor” dedi, “Tanrı ne yapacağını sana bildirmiş.
26 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.
Yedi güzel inek yedi yıl demektir. Yedi güzel başak da yedi yıldır. Aynı anlama geliyor.
27 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).
Daha sonra çıkan yedi cılız, çirkin inek ve doğu rüzgarının kavurduğu yedi solgun başaksa yedi yıl kıtlık olacağı anlamına gelir.
28 It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
“Söylediğim gibi, Tanrı ne yapacağını sana göstermiş.
29 There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
Mısır'da yedi yıl bolluk olacak.
30 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.
Sonra yedi yıl öyle bir kıtlık olacak ki, bolluk yılları hiç anımsanmayacak. Çünkü kıtlık ülkeyi kasıp kavuracak.
31 The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
Ardından gelen kıtlık bolluğu unutturacak, çünkü çok şiddetli olacak.
32 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.
Bu konuda iki kez düş görmenin anlamı, Tanrı'nın kesin kararını verdiğini ve en kısa zamanda uygulayacağını gösteriyor.
33 “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.
“Şimdi firavunun akıllı, bilgili bir adam bulup onu Mısır'ın başına getirmesi gerekir.
34 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.
Ülke çapında adamlar görevlendirmeli, bunlar yedi bolluk yılı boyunca ürünlerin beşte birini toplamalı.
35 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.
Gelecek verimli yılların bütün yiyeceğini toplasınlar, firavunun yönetimi altında kentlerde depolayıp korusunlar.
36 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.”
Bu yiyecek, gelecek yedi kıtlık yılı boyunca Mısır'da ihtiyat olarak kullanılacak, ülke kıtlıktan kırılmayacak.”
37 The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
Bu öneri firavunla görevlilerine iyi göründü.
38 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]
Firavun görevlilerine, “Bu adam gibi Tanrı Ruhu'na sahip birini bulabilir miyiz?” diye sordu.
39 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.
Sonra Yusuf'a, “Madem Tanrı bütün bunları sana açıkladı, senden daha akıllısı, bilgilisi yoktur” dedi,
40 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.”
“Sarayımın yönetimini sana vereceğim. Bütün halkım buyruklarına uyacak. Tahttan başka senden üstünlüğüm olmayacak.
41 Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
Seni bütün Mısır'a yönetici atıyorum.”
42 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.
Sonra mührünü parmağından çıkarıp Yusuf'un parmağına taktı. Ona ince ketenden giysi giydirdi. Boynuna altın zincir taktı.
43 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.
Onu kendi yardımcısının arabasına bindirdi. Yusuf'un önünde, “Yol açın!” diye bağırdılar. Böylece firavun ona bütün Mısır'ın yönetimini verdi.
44 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.”
Firavun Yusuf'a, “Firavun benim” dedi, “Ama Mısır'da senden izinsiz kimse elini ayağını oynatmayacak.”
45 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.
Yusuf'un adını Safenat-Paneah koydu. On Kenti'nin kâhini Potifera'nın kızı Asenat'ı da ona karı olarak verdi. Yusuf ülkeyi boydan boya dolaştı.
46 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.
Yusuf firavunun hizmetine girdiğinde otuz yaşındaydı. Firavunun huzurundan ayrıldıktan sonra bütün Mısır'ı dolaştı.
47 During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
Yedi bolluk yılı boyunca toprak çok ürün verdi.
48 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.
Yusuf Mısır'da yedi yıl içinde yetişen bütün ürünleri toplayıp kentlerde depoladı. Her kente o kentin çevresindeki tarlalarda yetişen ürünleri koydu.
49 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.
Denizin kumu kadar çok buğday depoladı; öyle ki, ölçmekten vazgeçti. Çünkü buğday ölçülemeyecek kadar çoktu.
50 Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
Kıtlık yılları başlamadan, On Kenti'nin kâhini Potifera'nın kızı Asenat Yusuf'a iki erkek çocuk doğurdu.
51 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.”
Yusuf ilk oğlunun adını Manaşşe koydu. “Tanrı bana bütün acılarımı ve babamın ailesini unutturdu” dedi.
52 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.”
“Tanrı sıkıntı çektiğim ülkede beni verimli kıldı” diyerek ikinci oğlunun adını Efrayim koydu.
53 Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
Mısır'da yedi bolluk yılı sona erdi.
54 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.
Yusuf'un söylemiş olduğu gibi yedi kıtlık yılı başgösterdi. Bütün ülkelerde kıtlık vardı, ama Mısır'ın her yanında yiyecek bulunuyordu.
55 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.”
Mısırlılar aç kalınca, yiyecek için firavuna yakardılar. Firavun, “Yusuf'a gidin” dedi, “O size ne derse öyle yapın.”
56 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.
Kıtlık bütün ülkeyi sarınca, Yusuf depoları açıp Mısırlılar'a buğday satmaya başladı. Çünkü kıtlık Mısır'ı boydan boya kavuruyordu.
57 And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
Bütün ülkelerden insanlar da buğday satın almak için Mısır'a, Yusuf'a geliyordu. Çünkü kıtlık bütün dünyayı sarmıştı ve şiddetliydi.
