Kejadian 37
1 Adapun Yakub, ia diam di negeri penumpangan ayahnya, yakni di tanah Kanaan.
Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
2 Inilah riwayat keturunan Yakub. Yusuf, tatkala berumur tujuh belas tahun--jadi masih muda--biasa menggembalakan kambing domba, bersama-sama dengan saudara-saudaranya, anak-anak Bilha dan Zilpa, kedua isteri ayahnya. Dan Yusuf menyampaikan kepada ayahnya kabar tentang kejahatan saudara-saudaranya.
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, tended the flock with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report about them to their father.
3 Israel lebih mengasihi Yusuf dari semua anaknya yang lain, sebab Yusuf itulah anaknya yang lahir pada masa tuanya; dan ia menyuruh membuat jubah yang maha indah bagi dia.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he had been born to him in his old age. And he made a long ornamented robe for him.
4 Setelah dilihat oleh saudara-saudaranya, bahwa ayahnya lebih mengasihi Yusuf dari semua saudaranya, maka bencilah mereka itu kepadanya dan tidak mau menyapanya dengan ramah.
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak a kind word to him.
5 Pada suatu kali bermimpilah Yusuf, lalu mimpinya itu diceritakannya kepada saudara-saudaranya; sebab itulah mereka lebih benci lagi kepadanya.
Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
6 Karena katanya kepada mereka: "Coba dengarkan mimpi yang kumimpikan ini:
He said to them, "Please listen to this dream I had:
7 Tampak kita sedang di ladang mengikat berkas-berkas gandum, lalu bangkitlah berkasku dan tegak berdiri; kemudian datanglah berkas-berkas kamu sekalian mengelilingi dan sujud menyembah kepada berkasku itu."
And look, we were binding sheaves in the field, and look, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And look, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."
8 Lalu saudara-saudaranya berkata kepadanya: "Apakah engkau ingin menjadi raja atas kami? Apakah engkau ingin berkuasa atas kami?" Jadi makin bencilah mereka kepadanya karena mimpinya dan karena perkataannya itu.
Then his brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed rule over us?" So they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said.
9 Lalu ia memimpikan pula mimpi yang lain, yang diceritakannya kepada saudara-saudaranya. Katanya: "Aku bermimpi pula: Tampak matahari, bulan dan sebelas bintang sujud menyembah kepadaku."
And he had another dream, and told it to his father and to his brothers, and said, "Look, I had yet another dream, and look, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
10 Setelah hal ini diceritakannya kepada ayah dan saudara-saudaranya, maka ia ditegor oleh ayahnya: "Mimpi apa mimpimu itu? Masakan aku dan ibumu serta saudara-saudaramu sujud menyembah kepadamu sampai ke tanah?"
When he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you had? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come and bow down to the ground in front of you?"
11 Maka iri hatilah saudara-saudaranya kepadanya, tetapi ayahnya menyimpan hal itu dalam hatinya.
His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept thinking about the matter.
12 Pada suatu kali pergilah saudara-saudaranya menggembalakan kambing domba ayahnya dekat Sikhem.
Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.
13 Lalu Israel berkata kepada Yusuf: "Bukankah saudara-saudaramu menggembalakan kambing domba dekat Sikhem? Marilah engkau kusuruh kepada mereka." Sahut Yusuf: "Ya bapa."
And Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers pasturing the flock near Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said to him, "I am ready."
14 Kata Israel kepadanya: "Pergilah engkau melihat apakah baik keadaan saudara-saudaramu dan keadaan kambing domba; dan bawalah kabar tentang itu kepadaku." Lalu Yakub menyuruh dia dari lembah Hebron, dan Yusufpun sampailah ke Sikhem.
So he said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flock, and report back to me." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15 Ketika Yusuf berjalan ke sana ke mari di padang, bertemulah ia dengan seorang laki-laki, yang bertanya kepadanya: "Apakah yang kaucari?"
And a man found him, and look, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
16 Sahutnya: "Aku mencari saudara-saudaraku. Tolonglah katakan kepadaku di mana mereka menggembalakan kambing domba?"
He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock."
17 Lalu kata orang itu: "Mereka telah berangkat dari sini, sebab telah kudengar mereka berkata: Marilah kita pergi ke Dotan." Maka Yusuf menyusul saudara-saudaranya itu dan didapatinyalah mereka di Dotan.
The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
18 Dari jauh ia telah kelihatan kepada mereka. Tetapi sebelum ia dekat pada mereka, mereka telah bermufakat mencari daya upaya untuk membunuhnya.
Now they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them they plotted against him to kill him.
19 Kata mereka seorang kepada yang lain: "Lihat, tukang mimpi kita itu datang!
And they said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is coming.
20 Sekarang, marilah kita bunuh dia dan kita lemparkan ke dalam salah satu sumur ini, lalu kita katakan: seekor binatang buas telah menerkamnya. Dan kita akan lihat nanti, bagaimana jadinya mimpinya itu!"
Come now, and let's kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns, and we will say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we will see what will become of his dreams."
21 Ketika Ruben mendengar hal ini, ia ingin melepaskan Yusuf dari tangan mereka, sebab itu katanya: "Janganlah kita bunuh dia!"
But Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hands, and said, "Let's not take his life."
22 Lagi kata Ruben kepada mereka: "Janganlah tumpahkan darah, lemparkanlah dia ke dalam sumur yang ada di padang gurun ini, tetapi janganlah apa-apakan dia" --maksudnya hendak melepaskan Yusuf dari tangan mereka dan membawanya kembali kepada ayahnya.
Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"—that he might deliver him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.
23 Baru saja Yusuf sampai kepada saudara-saudaranya, merekapun menanggalkan jubah Yusuf, jubah maha indah yang dipakainya itu.
It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his robe, the long ornamented robe that he was wearing.
24 Dan mereka membawa dia dan melemparkan dia ke dalam sumur. Sumur itu kosong, tidak berair.
And they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the pit was empty. There was no water in it.)
25 Kemudian duduklah mereka untuk makan. Ketika mereka mengangkat muka, kelihatanlah kepada mereka suatu kafilah orang Ismael datang dari Gilead dengan untanya yang membawa damar, balsam dan damar ladan, dalam perjalanannya mengangkut barang-barang itu ke Mesir.
Then they sat down to eat a meal. And they looked up, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
26 Lalu kata Yehuda kepada saudara-saudaranya itu: "Apakah untungnya kalau kita membunuh adik kita itu dan menyembunyikan darahnya?
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
27 Marilah kita jual dia kepada orang Ismael ini, tetapi janganlah kita apa-apakan dia, karena ia saudara kita, darah daging kita." Dan saudara-saudaranya mendengarkan perkataannya itu.
Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our flesh." And his brothers agreed.
28 Ketika ada saudagar-saudagar Midian lewat, Yusuf diangkat ke atas dari dalam sumur itu, kemudian dijual kepada orang Ismael itu dengan harga dua puluh syikal perak. Lalu Yusuf dibawa mereka ke Mesir.
So the Midianites merchants passed by, and they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the cistern, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.
29 Ketika Ruben kembali ke sumur itu, ternyata Yusuf tidak ada lagi di dalamnya. Lalu dikoyakkannyalah bajunya,
And Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph wasn't in the cistern; and he tore his clothes.
30 dan kembalilah ia kepada saudara-saudaranya, katanya: "Anak itu tidak ada lagi, ke manakah aku ini?"
He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone. Now, what am I to do?"
31 Kemudian mereka mengambil jubah Yusuf, dan menyembelih seekor kambing, lalu mencelupkan jubah itu ke dalam darahnya.
They took Joseph's robe and killed a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
32 Jubah maha indah itu mereka suruh antarkan kepada ayah mereka dengan pesan: "Ini kami dapati. Silakanlah bapa periksa apakah jubah ini milik anak bapa atau tidak?"
And they sent the long ornamented robe and they brought it to their father, and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your son's robe or not."
33 Ketika Yakub memeriksa jubah itu, ia berkata: "Ini jubah anakku; binatang buas telah memakannya; tentulah Yusuf telah diterkam."
And he recognized it, and said, "It is my son's robe. A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
34 Dan Yakub mengoyakkan jubahnya, lalu mengenakan kain kabung pada pinggangnya dan berkabunglah ia berhari-hari lamanya karena anaknya itu.
Then Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
35 Sekalian anaknya laki-laki dan perempuan berusaha menghiburkan dia, tetapi ia menolak dihiburkan, serta katanya: "Tidak! Aku akan berkabung, sampai aku turun mendapatkan anakku, ke dalam dunia orang mati!" Demikianlah Yusuf ditangisi oleh ayahnya. (Sheol h7585)
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Indeed, I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." And his father wept for him. (Sheol h7585)
36 Adapun Yusuf, ia dijual oleh orang Midian itu ke Mesir, kepada Potifar, seorang pegawai istana Firaun, kepala pengawal raja.
Now the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
