Genèse 40
1 II advint, après ces événements que l’échanson du roi d’Égypte et le panetier offensèrent leur maître, le roi d’Égypte.
Some time later, two of the king of Egypt’s officials did things that displeased him. One was his chief (drink-server/man who prepared the wine and served it to the king), and the other was his chief (baker/man who baked bread for the king).
2 Pharaon, irrité contre ses deux officiers, le maître échanson et le maître panetier,
The king became angry with both of them.
3 les fit mettre aux arrêts dans la maison du chef des gardes, dans la Rotonde, le même lieu où Joseph était captif.
So he had them put in prison, in the house of the captain of the palace guards. That was the place where Joseph was being kept.
4 Le chef des gardes mit Joseph à leur disposition et celui ci les servit. Ils étaient depuis quelque temps aux arrêts,
The two men were in prison for a long time. And during that time the captain of the palace guards appointed Joseph to be their servant, to take care of their needs.
5 lorsqu’ils eurent un rêve tous les deux, chacun le sien, la même nuit et chacun selon le sens de son rêve; l’échanson et le panetier du roi d’Égypte, détenus dans la Rotonde.
One night while the king’s drink-server and his baker were there in the prison, each of them had a dream. Each dream had a different meaning.
6 Joseph, étant venu près d’eux le matin, remarqua qu’ils étaient soucieux.
The next morning, when Joseph came to them, he saw that both of them were dejected/worried.
7 II demanda aux officiers de Pharaon, qui étaient avec lui en prison chez son maître: "Pourquoi votre visage est-il sombre aujourd’hui?"
So he asked them, “Why do you look so sad today?”
8 Ils lui répondirent: "Nous avons fait un songe et il n’y a personne pour l’interpréter." Joseph leur dit: "L’Interprétation n’est elle pas à Dieu? Dites les moi, je vous prie."
One of them answered, “We both had dreams last night, but there is no one who can tell us the meaning of the dreams.” Joseph said to them, “God is the only one who can [RHQ] tell the meaning of dreams. So tell me what you dreamed, and God will tell me the meaning.”
9 Le maître échanson raconta son rêve à Joseph, en disant: "Dans mon rêve, une vigne était devant moi.
So the king’s chief drink-server told his dream to Joseph. He said, “In my dream I saw a grapevine in front of me.
10 A cette vigne étaient trois pampres. Or, elle semblait se couvrir de fleurs, ses bourgeons se développaient, ses grappes mûrissaient leurs raisins.
On the vine there were three branches. After the branches budded, they blossomed, and then they produced clusters of grapes.
11 J’Avais en main la coupe de Pharaon; je cueillais les raisins, j’en exprimais le jus dans la coupe de Pharaon et je présentais la coupe à la main du roi."
I was holding the king’s cup, so I took the grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I gave the cup to the king to drink the juice.”
12 Joseph lui répondit: "En voici l’explication. Les trois pampres, ce sont trois jours.
[God immediately told Joseph what the dream meant]. So Joseph said to him, “This is the meaning of your dream: The three branches of the vine represent three days.
13 Trois jours encore et Pharaon te fera élargir et il te rétablira dans ton poste; et tu mettras la coupe de Pharaon dans sa main, comme tu le faisais précédemment en qualité d’échanson.
Within three days the king will release you from prison. He will let you do the work that you did before. You will take cups of wine to the king as you did before, when you were his drink-server.
14 Si tu te souviens de moi lorsque tu seras heureux, rends-moi, de grâce, un bon office: parle de moi à Pharaon et fais moi sortir de cette demeure.
But when you are out of prison and everything goes well for you, please do not forget me.
15 Car j’ai été enlevé, oui, enlevé du pays des Hébreux; et ici non plus je n’avais rien fait lorsqu’on m’a jeté dans ce cachot."
People took me away forcefully from the land where my fellow Hebrews live. [I did nothing wrong there], and also while I have been here in Egypt, I have done nothing for which I deserved to be put in prison. So be kind to me and tell the king about me, so that he will release me from this prison!”
16 Le maître panetier, voyant qu’il avait interprété dans un sens favorable, dit à Joseph: "Pour moi, dans mon songe j’avais trois corbeilles à claire voie sur la tête.
When the chief baker heard that the meaning of the dream of the king’s drink-server was very favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream. In the dream I was surprised to see three baskets of bread stacked on my head.
17 La corbeille supérieure contenait tout ce que mange Pharaon en fait de boulangerie; et les oiseaux le becquetaient dans la corbeille, au dessus de ma tête."
In the top basket there were many kinds of baked goods for the king, but birds were eating them from the top basket that was on my head!”
18 Joseph répondit en ces termes: "En voici l’explication. Les trois corbeilles, ce sont trois jours.
God again told Joseph what the dream meant, so he said, “The three baskets also represent three days.
19 Trois jours encore et Pharaon te feratrancher la tête et attacher à un gibet; et les oiseaux viendront becqueter ta chair."
Within three days the king will command that your head be cut off. Then your body will be hung on a tree, and vultures will come and eat your flesh.”
20 Or, le troisième jour, anniversaire de la naissance de Pharaon, celui ci donna un banquet à tous ses serviteurs. II porta le maître échanson et le maître panetier sur la liste de ses serviteurs.
The third day after that was the (king’s birthday/day they celebrated when the king became one year older). On that day the king invited all his officials to celebrate his birthday. During the celebration, while they were all gathered there, the king summoned his chief drink-server and chief baker from the prison.
21 Il préposa de nouveau le maître échanson à sa boisson et celui-ci présenta la coupe à la main de Pharaon;
He said that his chief drink-server could have his previous job again, so that again he took cups of wine to the king.
22 et le maître panetier, il le fit pendre, ainsi que l’avait présagé Joseph.
But he commanded that the chief baker should be killed by being hanged, just as Joseph had said would happen when he told the two men the meaning of their dreams.
23 Mais le maître échanson ne se souvint plus de Joseph, il l’oublia.
But the chief drink-server did not think about Joseph. He forgot to do what Joseph asked him to do.
