Genèse 40
1 Ces choses s’étant ainsi passées, il arriva que deux eunuques, l’échanson du roi d’Égypte et le panetier, offensèrent leur maître.
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 Et Pharaon, irrité contre eux (car l’un commandait aux échansons et l’autre aux panetiers),
The king became angry with both of them.
3 Les envoya dans la prison du chef des soldats, où Joseph aussi était détenu.
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 Mais le gardien de la prison leur donna Joseph pour les servir. Quelque temps s’était écoulé, et eux étaient détenus dans la prison.
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 Or ils virent tous deux, dans une même nuit, un songe qui, selon son interprétation, se rapportait à eux.
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 Lorsque Joseph fut entré près d’eux le matin, et qu’il les eut vus tristes,
The next morning, when Joseph came to them, he saw that both of them were dejected/worried.
7 Il les interrogea, disant: Pourquoi votre visage est-il plus triste aujourd’hui que de coutume?
So he asked them, “Why do you look so sad today?”
8 Ceux-ci répondirent: Nous avons vu un songe, et il n’y a personne pour nous l’interpréter. Joseph leur dit: N’est-ce pas à Dieu qu’appartient l’interprétation? Rapportez-moi ce que vous avez vu.
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 grand échanson raconta le premier son songe: Je voyais devant moi qu’une vigne,
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 Où il y avait trois provins, poussait peu à peu des boutons, et qu’après des fleurs, des raisins mûrissaient,
On the vine there were three branches. After the branches budded, they blossomed, and then they produced clusters of grapes.
11 Et que la coupe de Pharaon était dans ma main: je pris donc les raisins et les pressai dans la coupe que je tenais, et je donnai la coupe à Pharaon.
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 répondit: Voici l’interprétation du songe: Les trois provins, ce sont trois jours encore,
[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 Après lesquels Pharaon se souviendra de ton ministère, et te rétablira dans ton ancienne charge; tu lui présenteras la coupe, selon ton office, comme tu avais coutume de le faire auparavant.
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 Seulement souviens-toi de moi, quand bien t’arrivera, et fais-moi miséricorde en suggérant à Pharaon de me tirer de cette prison:
But when you are out of prison and everything goes well for you, please do not forget me.
15 Car j’ai été enlevé par fraude du pays des Hébreux, et innocent, j’ai été jeté ici dans la fosse.
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 grand panetier voyant qu’il avait sagement expliqué le songe, dit: Et moi aussi j’ai vu un songe: J’avais trois corbeilles de farine sur ma 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 Et dans l’une des corbeilles, qui était la plus élevée, je portais de tous les aliments qui s’apprêtent par l’art du boulanger, et les oiseaux en mangeaient.
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: Voici l’interprétation du songe: Les trois corbeilles, ce sont trois jours encore,
God again told Joseph what the dream meant, so he said, “The three baskets also represent three days.
19 Après lesquels Pharaon t’enlèvera la tête, et te suspendra à une croix, et les oiseaux déchireront tes chairs.
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 Le troisième jour d’après était le jour de la naissance de Pharaon, qui, faisant un grand festin à ses serviteurs, se ressouvint, pendant le repas, du grand échanson et du grand panetier.
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 Or il rétablit l’un dans sa charge, pour qu’il lui présentât la coupe,
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 il suspendit l’autre à une potence; en sorte que la véracité de l’interprète se trouva justifiée.
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 Cependant, tout lui prospérant, le grand échanson oublia son interprète.
But the chief drink-server did not think about Joseph. He forgot to do what Joseph asked him to do.
