Genesis 47

1 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.”

١ وَمَثَلَ يُوسُفُ أَمَامَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «لَقَدْ جَاءَ أَبِي وَإِخْوَتِي مَعَ قُطْعَانِهِمْ وَمَوَاشِيهِمْ وَكُلِّ مَالَهُمْ مِنْ أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، وَهَا هُمُ الآنَ فِي أَرْضِ جَاسَانَ».

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٢ وَأَخَذَ خَمْسَةً مِنْ إِخْوَتِهِ وَقَدَّمَهُمْ إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ.

3 The king asked the brothers, “What work do you do?” They replied, “We are shepherds, just as our ancestors were.”

٣ فَسَأَلَهُمْ فِرْعَوْنُ: «مَا هِيَ حِرْفَتُكُمْ؟» فَأَجَابُوهُ: «عَبِيدُكَ وَآبَاؤُهُمْ رُعَاةُ غَنَمٍ.

4 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.”

٤ وَلَقَدْ جِئْنَا لِنَتَغَرَّبَ فِي الأَرْضِ إِذْ لَيْسَ لِغَنَمِ عَبِيدِكَ مَرْعىً مِنْ جَرَّاءِ وَطْأَةِ الْجُوعِ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، فَدَعْ عَبِيدَكَ يُقِيمُونَ فِي أَرْضِ جَاسَانَ».

5 The king said to Joseph, “I am happy that your father and your [older] brothers [and younger brother] have come to you.

٥ فَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ لِيُوسُفَ: «لَقَدْ جَاءَ إِلَيْكَ أَبُوكَ وَإِخْوَتُكَ،

6 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.”

٦ وَأَرْضُ مِصْرَ أَمَامَكَ، فَأَنْزِلْ أَبَاكَ وَإِخْوَتَكَ فِي أَفْضَلِ الأَرْضِ. دَعْهُمْ يُقِيمُونَ فِي أَرْضِ جَاسَانَ. وَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْرِفُ أَنَّ بَيْنَهُمْ ذَوِي خِبْرَةٍ فَاعْهَدْ إِلَيْهِمْ فِي الإِشْرَافِ عَلَى مَوَاشِيَّ».

7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob [into the palace] and introduced him to the king. Jacob asked God to bless the king.

٧ ثُمَّ أَحْضَرَ يُوسُفُ أَبَاهُ يَعْقُوبَ وَأَوْقَفَهُ أَمَامَ فِرْعَوْنَ، فَبَارَكَ يَعْقُوبُ فِرْعَوْنَ.

8 Then the king asked Jacob, “How old are you?”

٨ وَسَأَلَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَعْقُوبَ: «كَمْ هُوَ عُمْرُكَ؟»

9 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.”

٩ فَأَجَابَ يَعْقُوبُ فِرْعَوْنَ: «سَنَوَاتُ غُرْبَتِي مِئَةٌ وَثَلاثُونَ سَنَةً، قَلِيلَةٌ وَشَاقَّةٌ، وَلَمْ تَبْلُغْ سِنِي غُرْبَةِ آبَائِي».

10 Then Jacob again [asked God to] bless the king, and left him.

١٠ ثُمَّ بَارَكَ يَعْقُوبُ فِرْعَوْنَ وَخَرَجَ مِنْ لَدُنِهِ.

11 [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.

١١ وَأَنْزَلَ يُوسُفُ أَبَاهُ وَإِخْوَتَهُ فِي مِصْرَ وَمَلَّكَهُمْ فِي رَعَمْسِيسَ أَجْوَدَ الأَرْضِ كَمَا أَمَرَ فِرْعَوْنُ.

12 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.

١٢ وَأَمَدَّ يُوسُفُ أَبَاهُ وَإِخْوَتَهُ وَأَهْلَ بَيْتِ أَبِيهِ بِالطَّعَامِ عَلَى حَسَبِ عَدَدِ أَوْلادِهِمْ.

13 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.

١٣ وَنَفَدَ الْخُبْزُ فِي جَمِيعِ الْبِلادِ لِشِدَّةِ الْمَجَاعَةِ، وَأَقْحَلَتْ أَرْضُ مِصْرَ وَأَرْضُ كَنْعَانَ مِنَ الْجُوعِ.

14 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.

١٤ فَقَايَضَ يُوسُفُ الْقَمْحَ الَّذِي بِيعَ بِكُلِّ الْفِضَّةِ الْمَوْجُودَةِ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ وَفِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، وَحَمَلَهَا إِلَى خَزِينَةِ فِرْعَوْنَ.

15 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!”

١٥ وَعِنْدَمَا نَفَدَتِ الْفِضَّةُ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ وَمِنْ أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ أَقْبَلَ جَمِيعُ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ إِلَى يُوسُفَ قَائِلِينَ: «أَعْطِنَا خُبْزاً، فَلِمَاذَا نَمُوتُ أَمَامَ عَيْنَيْكَ؟ إِنَّ فِضَّتَنَا قَدْ نَفَدَتْ».

16 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.”

١٦ فَأَجَابَهُمْ: «إِنْ نَفَدَتْ فِضَّتُكُمْ، فَهَاتُوا مَوَاشِيَكُمْ أُقَايِضُكُمْ بِها طَعَاماً».

17 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.

١٧ فَأَتَوْا بِمَوَاشِيهِمْ، فَقَايَضَهُمْ يُوسُفُ خُبْزاً بِالْخَيْلِ وَمَوَاشِي الْغَنَمِ وَالْبَقَرِ وَالْحَمِيرِ. وَهَكَذَا قَايَضَ جَميِعَ مَوَاشِيهِمْ بِالْخُبْزِ فِي تِلْكَ السَّنَةِ.

18 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.

١٨ وَعِنْدَمَا انْقَضَتْ تِلْكَ السَّنَةُ، أَقْبَلُوا إِلَيْهِ فِي السَّنَةِ التَّالِيَةِ قَائِلِينَ: «لا نُخْفِي عَنْ سَيِّدِي أَنَّ فِضَّتَنَا قَدْ نَفَدَتْ، وَأَنَّ مَوَاشِيَ الْبَهَائِمِ قَدْ أَصْبَحَتْ عِنْدَ سَيِّدِي، وَلَمْ يَبْقَ أَمَامَهُ إِلّا أَبْدَانُنَا وَأَرَاضِينَا،

19 (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.”

١٩ فَلِمَاذَا نَمُوتُ نَحْنُ، وَأَرْضُنَا أَمَامَ عَيْنَيْكَ، اشْتَرِنَا نَحْنُ وَأَرْضَنَا لِقَاءَ الْخُبْزِ فَنُصْبِحَ نَحْنُ وَأَرَاضِينَا عَبِيداً لِفِرْعَوْنَ. وَأَعْطِنَا بُذُوراً لِنَزْرَعَهَا فَنَحْيَا وَلا نَمُوتَ وَلا تَصِيرَ أَرَاضِينَا مُقْفِرَةً».

20 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.

٢٠ وَهَكَذَا اشْتَرَى يُوسُفُ لِفِرْعَوْنَ كُلَّ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، لأَنَّ جَمِيعَ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ بَاعُوا حُقُولَهُمْ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ الْمَجَاعَةِ الَّتِي أَلَمَّتْ بِهِمْ، وَصَارَتْ كُلُّ الأَرْضِ مِلْكاً لِفِرْعَوْنَ.

21 As a result, Joseph caused all the people from one border of the country to the other to become the king’s slaves.

٢١ أَمَّا الشَّعْبُ فَقَدْ نَقَلَهُمْ إِلَى الْمُدُنِ مِنْ أَقْصَى حُدُودِ مِصْرَ إِلَى أَقْصَاهَا.

22 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.

٢٢ إِلّا أَنَّ أَرْضَ الْكَهَنَةِ لَمْ يَشْتَرِهَا، إِذْ كَانَ لِلْكَهَنَةِ مُخَصَّصَاتٌ مُعَيَّنَةٌ أَجْرَاهَا عَلَيْهِمْ فِرْعَوْنُ، فَكَانُوا يَأْكُلُونَ مِنْهَا، فَلَمْ يَبِيعُوا أَرْضَهُمْ.

23 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.

٢٣ ثُمَّ قَالَ يُوسُفُ لِلشَّعْبِ: «هَا قَدِ اشْتَرَيْتُكُمُ الْيَوْمَ أَنْتُمْ وَأَرْضَكُمْ فَصِرْتُمْ مِلْكاً لِفِرْعَوْنَ، فَإِلَيْكُم الْبِذَارَ لِتَزْرَعُوا الأَرْضَ.

24 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.”

٢٤ وَيَكُونُ فِي مَوْسِمِ الْحَصَادِ أَنَّكُمْ تُقَدِّمُونَ لِفِرْعَوْنَ خُمْسَ الْغَلَّةِ وَتَحْتَفِظُونَ لَكُمْ بِالأَرْبَعَةِ الأَخْمَاسِ لِتَكُونَ بِذَاراً لِلْحَقْلِ وَطَعَاماً لَكُمْ وَلِمَنْ فِي بُيُوتِكُمْ وَلأَوْلادِكُمْ».

25 They replied, “You have saved our lives! We want you to be pleased with us. And we will be the king’s slaves.”

٢٥ فَأَجَابُوا: «لَقَدْ أَنْقَذْتَ حَيَاتَنَا، فَيَا لَيْتَنَا نَحْظَى بِرِضَى سَيِّدِنَا فَنَكُونَ عَبِيداً لِفِرْعَوْنَ»

26 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.

٢٦ وَمِنْ ذَلِكَ الْحِينِ إِلَى يَوْمِنَا هَذَا جَعَلَ يُوسُفُ فَرِيضَةَ الْخُمْسِ هَذِهِ ضَرِيبَةً عَلَى كُلِّ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، تُجْبَى لِفِرْعَوْنَ، بِاسْتِثْنَاءِ أَرْضِ الْكَهَنَةِ الَّتِي لَمْ تُصْبِحْ مِلْكاً لِفِرْعَوْنَ.

27 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.

٢٧ وَأَقَامَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي مِصْرَ فِي أَرْضِ جَاسَانَ. وَاقْتَنَوْا فِيهَا أَمْلاكاً وَأَثْمَرُوا وَتَكَاثَرُوا.

28 Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years. Altogether he lived 147 years.

٢٨ وَعَاشَ يَعْقُوبُ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً حَتَّى بَلَغَ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ مِئَةً وَسَبْعَةً وَأَرْبَعِينَ عَاماً.

29 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.

٢٩ وَعِنْدَمَا قَرُبَ يَوْمُ وَفَاتِهِ، اسْتَدْعَى ابْنَهُ يُوسُفَ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ حَظِيتُ بِرِضَاكَ، فَضَعْ يَدَكَ تَحْتَ فَخْذِي، وَأَسْدِ لِي مَعْرُوفاً وَأَمَانَةً: لَا تَدْفِنِّي فِي مِصْرَ

30 Instead, take my body out of Egypt, and bury it in Canaan where my ancestors are buried.” Joseph replied, “I will do that.”

٣٠ بَلْ دَعْنِي أَضْطَجِعُ إِلَى جُوَارِ آبَائِي. انْقُلْنِي مِنْ مِصْرَ وَوَارِنِي فِي مَدْفَنِهِمْ»، فَقَالَ: «أَنَا أَفْعَلُ حَسَبَ قَوْلِكَ».

31 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.

٣١ فَقَالَ يَعْقُوبُ: «احْلِفْ لِي». فَحَلَفَ لَهُ، فَسَجَدَ يَعْقُوبُ (شَاكِراً) عَلَى رَأْسِ السَّرِيرِ.