Genèse 41
1 Au bout de deux années complètes, Pharaon eut un songe, et voici qu'il se tenait près du fleuve.
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
2 Et voici, sept bêtes sortaient du fleuve. Elles étaient sveltes et grasses, et elles se nourrissaient de l'herbe des marais.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
3 Et voici, sept autres bêtes sortaient du fleuve après elles, laides et maigres, et se tenaient près des autres bêtes, sur le bord du fleuve.
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 Les bêtes laides et maigres dévorèrent les sept bêtes sveltes et grasses. Pharaon se réveilla.
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
5 Il dormit et rêva une seconde fois; et voici que sept épis de blé montèrent sur une seule tige, sains et bons.
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 Et voici, sept épis maigres, soufflés par le vent d'est, poussèrent après eux.
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 Les épis minces avalèrent les sept épis sains et pleins. Pharaon se réveilla, et voici, c'était un rêve.
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 Le matin, son esprit fut troublé, et il fit venir tous les magiciens et les sages d'Égypte. Pharaon leur raconta ses rêves, mais il n'y avait personne pour les interpréter à Pharaon.
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 Alors le chef des échansons parla à Pharaon, et dit: « Je me souviens aujourd'hui de mes fautes.
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 Pharaon s'est mis en colère contre ses serviteurs et m'a fait enfermer dans la maison du chef des gardes, avec le chef des boulangers.
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 Nous fîmes un rêve en une seule nuit, lui et moi. Chacun rêva selon l'interprétation de son rêve.
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
12 Il y avait là avec nous un jeune homme, un Hébreu, serviteur du chef des gardes. Nous lui avons raconté, et il nous a interprété nos rêves. Il interpréta à chacun selon son songe.
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 Et il en fut ainsi, comme il nous l'interpréta. Il m'a rétabli dans mes fonctions, et il l'a pendu. »
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 Alors Pharaon envoya appeler Joseph, et on le fit sortir en toute hâte du cachot. Il se rasa, changea de vêtements, et entra chez Pharaon.
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 Pharaon dit à Joseph: « J'ai fait un rêve, et il n'y a personne qui puisse l'interpréter. J'ai entendu dire de toi que, lorsque tu entends un rêve, tu peux l'interpréter. »
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 Joseph répondit à Pharaon: « Ce n'est pas en moi. Dieu donnera à Pharaon une réponse de paix. »
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 Pharaon dit à Joseph: « Dans mon rêve, voici, je me tenais sur le bord du fleuve;
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
18 et voici, sept bêtes grasses et élégantes sont sorties du fleuve. Ils se nourrissaient de l'herbe des marais.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
19 Et voici que sept autres bêtes montaient après eux, pauvres, très laides et maigres, comme je n'en ai jamais vu dans tout le pays d'Égypte pour leur laideur.
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 Les bêtes maigres et laides mangèrent les sept premières bêtes grasses;
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 et quand elles les eurent mangées, on ne put savoir qu'elles les avaient mangées, mais elles étaient toujours aussi laides, comme au début. Alors je me réveillai.
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 Je regardai en songe, et voici que sept épis de blé montaient sur une tige, pleins et bons;
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 et voici que sept épis de blé, desséchés, maigres, et soufflés par le vent d'orient, montaient après eux.
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 Les épis maigres avalèrent les sept bons épis. Je l'ai raconté aux magiciens, mais il n'y avait personne qui pût me l'expliquer. »
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 Joseph dit à Pharaon: « Le rêve de Pharaon est unique. Ce que Dieu va faire, il l'a annoncé à Pharaon.
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 Les sept bonnes bêtes sont sept ans, et les sept bonnes épis sont sept ans. Le rêve est unique.
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 Les sept bêtes maigres et laides qui sont montées après elles, ce sont sept ans, et aussi les sept épis vides, soufflés par le vent d'orient; ce seront sept années de famine.
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 C'est ce que j'ai dit à Pharaon. Dieu a montré à Pharaon ce qu'il allait faire.
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
29 Voici, sept années de grande abondance dans tout le pays d'Égypte vont venir.
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
30 Sept années de famine surviendront après elles, et toute l'abondance sera oubliée dans le pays d'Égypte. La famine consumera le pays,
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 et l'abondance ne sera pas connue dans le pays, à cause de la famine qui suivra, car elle sera très douloureuse.
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
32 Le rêve a été doublé pour Pharaon, car la chose est établie par Dieu, et Dieu l'accomplira bientôt.
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 « Maintenant, que Pharaon cherche un homme discret et sage, et qu'il l'établisse sur le pays d'Égypte.
“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 Que Pharaon fasse cela, qu'il nomme des surveillants sur le pays, et qu'ils prélèvent le cinquième de la production du pays d'Égypte pendant les sept années d'abondance.
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 Qu'ils rassemblent toutes les denrées de ces bonnes années à venir, et qu'ils stockent le grain sous la main de Pharaon pour le nourrir dans les villes, et qu'ils le gardent.
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 Ces vivres serviront à approvisionner le pays contre les sept années de famine qui s'abattront sur le pays d'Égypte, afin que le pays ne périsse pas par la famine. »
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 La chose était bonne aux yeux de Pharaon et aux yeux de tous ses serviteurs.
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
38 Pharaon dit à ses serviteurs: « Peut-on trouver un tel homme, un homme en qui réside l'Esprit de Dieu? ».
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 Pharaon dit à Joseph: « Puisque Dieu t'a montré tout cela, il n'y a personne d'aussi discret et d'aussi sage que toi.
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 Tu seras à la tête de ma maison. Tout mon peuple sera gouverné selon ta parole. Ce n'est que sur le trône que je serai plus grand que toi. »
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 Pharaon dit à Joseph: « Voici, je t'ai établi sur tout le pays d'Égypte. »
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
42 Pharaon ôta sa bague de sa main et la mit à la main de Joseph; il le revêtit d'une robe de fin lin, et lui mit un collier d'or au cou.
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 Il le fit monter dans le second char qu'il avait. Ils criaient devant lui: « Agenouillez-vous! » Il l'établit sur tout le pays d'Égypte.
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 Pharaon dit à Joseph: « Je suis Pharaon. Sans toi, personne ne lèvera la main ni le pied dans tout le pays d'Égypte. »
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 Pharaon donna à Joseph le nom de Zaphenath-Paneah. Il lui donna pour femme Asenath, fille du prêtre Potiphéra d'On. Joseph parcourut le pays d'Égypte.
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 Joseph était âgé de trente ans lorsqu'il se présenta devant Pharaon, roi d'Égypte. Joseph sortit de la présence de Pharaon, et parcourut tout le pays d'Égypte.
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 Pendant les sept années d'abondance, la terre produisit en abondance.
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
48 Il ramassa toutes les provisions des sept années qui s'étaient écoulées dans le pays d'Égypte, et il les mit en réserve dans les villes. Il stocka dans chaque ville des aliments provenant des champs qui entouraient cette ville.
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 Joseph accumula du grain comme le sable de la mer, en très grande quantité, jusqu'à ce qu'il cesse de compter, car il était sans nombre.
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 Il naquit à Joseph, avant l'année de la famine, deux fils qu'Asenath, fille de Potiphéra, prêtre d'On, lui enfanta.
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
51 Joseph donna à l'aîné le nom de Manassé, car, dit-il, Dieu m'a fait oublier tout mon labeur et toute la maison de mon père. »
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 Le nom du second, il l'appela Ephraïm: « Car Dieu m'a rendu fécond dans le pays de mon affliction. »
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 Les sept années d'abondance qui existaient dans le pays d'Égypte prirent fin.
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
54 Les sept années de famine commencèrent à venir, comme l'avait dit Joseph. Il y eut de la famine dans tous les pays, mais dans tout le pays d'Égypte, il y avait du pain.
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 Lorsque tout le pays d'Égypte fut affamé, le peuple cria au Pharaon pour avoir du pain. Le Pharaon dit à tous les Égyptiens: « Allez voir Joseph. Faites ce qu'il vous dira. »
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 La famine sévissait sur toute la surface de la terre. Joseph ouvrit tous les magasins et vendit aux Égyptiens. La famine était grande dans le pays d'Égypte.
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 Tous les pays venaient en Égypte, chez Joseph, pour acheter du blé, car la famine sévissait sur toute la surface de la terre.
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
