Kejadian 41
1 Dua tahun kemudian, raja Mesir bermimpi bahwa dia sedang berdiri di tepi sungai Nil.
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
2 Dalam mimpinya itu, dia melihat tujuh ekor sapi yang sehat dan gemuk keluar dari sungai Nil lalu memakan rumput di pinggir sungai.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
3 Kemudian tujuh ekor sapi lain yang kurus kering dan buruk rupa keluar juga dari sungai Nil dan berdiri di tepi sungai itu bersama ketujuh sapi yang sehat tadi.
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 Lalu ketujuh sapi yang kurus memakan ketujuh sapi yang gemuk. Sesudah itu raja terbangun dari tidurnya.
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
5 Dia kembali tidur dan bermimpi lagi. Dalam mimpinya yang kedua, dia melihat tujuh bulir gandum tumbuh pada satu batang. Ketujuh bulir gandum itu sangat baik dan berisi.
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 Kemudian dia melihat tujuh bulir gandum lain tumbuh. Yang ini layu dan kurus karena hembusan angin timur yang panas dan kering.
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 Lalu ketujuh bulir gandum yang kurus kering itu menelan ketujuh bulir gandum yang baik dan berisi. Raja kembali terbangun dan sadar bahwa itu hanya mimpi.
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 Keesokan paginya, raja merasa gelisah. Maka dia memanggil semua ahli sihir dan orang bijaksana di Mesir, lalu menceritakan mimpinya kepada mereka. Namun, tidak seorang pun dapat mengartikan mimpi-mimpi itu.
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 Kata juru minuman kepada raja, “Hari ini saya teringat kesalahan saya.
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 Waktu itu, Tuanku Raja sangat marah kepada beberapa pegawai istana, sehingga saya dan kepala juru roti dimasukkan ke penjara di bawah pengawasan komandan pengawal raja.
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 Suatu malam, kami berdua bermimpi dan masing-masing mimpi itu mempunyai arti.
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
12 Di sana ada seorang pemuda Ibrani yang menjadi budak komandan pengawal raja. Kami menceritakan mimpi-mimpi itu kepadanya, dan dia menjelaskan artinya kepada kami.
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 Lalu semuanya terjadi seperti yang dia katakan: Saya dikembalikan ke jabatan semula, sedangkan kepala juru roti dihukum mati dan digantung pada tiang.”
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 Maka raja memerintahkan agar Yusuf dipanggil. Dengan segera, Yusuf pun dikeluarkan dari penjara. Dia mencukur janggut dan mengenakan pakaian yang bersih, lalu pergi menghadap raja.
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 Kata raja kepada Yusuf, “Saya bermimpi, tetapi tidak ada seorang pun yang dapat mengartikannya. Saya sudah mendengar bahwa kamu dapat mengartikan mimpi.”
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 Jawab Yusuf, “Bukan hamba, melainkan Allah yang akan memberikan penjelasan yang tepat bagi Tuanku.”
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 Lalu raja menceritakan mimpinya kepada Yusuf, “Dalam mimpi itu, saya berdiri di tepi sungai Nil,
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
18 dan saya melihat tujuh ekor sapi yang sehat dan gemuk keluar dari sungai Nil lalu memakan rumput di pinggir sungai.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
19 Kemudian tujuh ekor sapi lain yang kurus dan buruk rupa keluar juga dari sungai. Baru kali ini saya melihat sapi sejelek itu di Mesir!
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 Sapi yang kurus memakan ketujuh sapi yang gemuk.
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 Tetapi walaupun sudah memakan ketujuh sapi gemuk itu, tetap saja mereka kurus kering. Sesudah itu saya terbangun.
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 “Kemudian saya tertidur lagi dan kembali bermimpi. Dalam mimpi yang kedua, saya melihat tujuh bulir gandum yang baik dan berisi tumbuh pada satu batang.
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 Lalu tumbuhlah tujuh bulir gandum lain yang tampak layu dan kurus karena ditiup angin timur yang panas dan kering.
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 Ketujuh bulir gandum yang layu itu menelan ketujuh bulir gandum yang baik. “Saya sudah menceritakan mimpi-mimpi ini kepada para ahli sihir, tetapi tidak ada seorang pun yang dapat mengartikannya.”
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 Jawab Yusuf kepada raja, “Kedua mimpi itu memiliki arti yang sama. Allah sudah memberitahu Baginda apa yang hendak dilakukan-Nya.
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 Tujuh sapi yang sehat dan tujuh bulir gandum yang baik sama artinya, yaitu tujuh tahun penuh kemakmuran.
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 Sedangkan tujuh sapi yang kurus kering dan tujuh bulir gandum yang layu karena angin timur berarti tujuh tahun bencana kelaparan.
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 Inilah yang saya maksud dengan perkataan tadi, ‘Allah sudah memberitahu Baginda apa yang hendak dilakukan-Nya.’
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
29 Akan ada tujuh tahun penuh kemakmuran di seluruh Mesir.
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
30 Sesudah itu, selama tujuh tahun kemudian, akan ada bencana kelaparan di negeri ini. Bencana kelaparan itu sedemikian parahnya hingga orang lupa akan masa sebelumnya yang penuh kelimpahan.
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.
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
32 Dua kali mimpi itu disampaikan Allah kepada Baginda, artinya Dia sudah menetapkan bahwa hal itu harus terjadi, dan Dia akan segera melaksanakannya.
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 “Sekarang, sebaiknya Baginda mencari orang yang cerdas dan bijaksana. Tugaskanlah dia untuk mengelola seluruh negeri Mesir.
“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 Selain itu, biarlah Baginda juga menugaskan pejabat-pejabat lain untuk mengumpulkan hasil panen dari rakyat Mesir. Selama tujuh tahun kemakmuran, orang-orang harus memberikan dua puluh persen dari seluruh hasil panen mereka.
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 Dengan demikian, mereka mengumpulkan gandum selama tujuh tahun yang berlimpah. Dan biarlah Baginda memerintahkan agar bahan makanan itu disimpan di berbagai kota di seluruh Mesir dan dijaga dengan baik.
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 Itulah cadangan makanan untuk masa kelaparan yang akan terjadi di seluruh negeri nantinya. Hanya dengan cara ini, seluruh penduduk Mesir akan dapat bertahan hidup.”
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 Usulan Yusuf dipandang baik oleh raja dan para pejabatnya.
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
38 Lalu kata raja kepada para pejabatnya itu, “Nyatalah bahwa tidak ada seorang pun yang bisa menangani persoalan ini lebih baik daripada Yusuf, karena dia dipimpin oleh roh-roh ilahi.”
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 Raja kemudian berkata kepada Yusuf, “Karena roh-roh ilahi sudah menunjukkan semua ini kepadamu, tidak ada orang lain yang lebih bijaksana dan cerdas daripadamu!
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 Saya berikan kepadamu kuasa atas seluruh kerajaan dan rakyat Mesir. Tidak ada yang lebih berkuasa daripadamu kecuali saya sebagai raja.
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 “Dengan ini, saya mengangkatmu menjadi orang kedua yang berkuasa atas seluruh Mesir.”
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
42 Lalu raja melepas cincin dengan cap kerajaan dari jarinya dan memasangnya pada jari Yusuf. Raja juga memberikan pakaian linen berkualitas tinggi dan kalung emas untuk dikenakan Yusuf.
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 Raja kemudian menyuruh Yusuf naik ke kereta kuda yang biasanya digunakan oleh orang kedua yang berkuasa di Mesir. Pasukan pengawal raja membawa Yusuf berkeliling, sambil mengumumkan kepada seluruh rakyat bahwa mereka harus berlutut, karena Yusuf sudah diangkat menjadi penguasa nomor dua di Mesir.
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 Kata raja kepada Yusuf, “Saya memang raja, tetapi tidak ada seorang pun yang dapat bertindak di negeri ini tanpa seizinmu.”
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 Demikianlah Yusuf dilantik menjadi penguasa. Usianya tiga puluh tahun ketika dia mulai melayani raja dan memerintah atas seluruh Mesir. Raja memberikan nama baru bagi Yusuf, yakni Safnat Paneah, serta memberinya seorang istri bernama Asnat. Asnat adalah anak Potifera, imam dewa matahari di kota Heliopolis.
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.
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 Selama tujuh tahun kemakmuran, hasil panen sangat melimpah.
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
48 Dalam tahun-tahun itu, Yusuf mengumpulkan semua kelebihan hasil panen di negeri Mesir. Dia membangun gudang-gudang di setiap kota dan menyimpan hasil panen dari ladang-ladang di wilayah sekitarnya.
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 Hasil panen gandum yang dikumpulkan Yusuf begitu melimpah bagaikan pasir di laut sehingga jumlahnya tak dapat dihitung lagi.
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 Sebelum bencana kelaparan melanda Mesir, Asnat istri Yusuf melahirkan dua anak laki-laki.
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
51 Yusuf menamai anak sulungnya Manasye, sebab katanya, “Allah sudah membuatku melupakan segala penderitaanku dan kaum keluarga ayahku.”
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 Anak keduanya diberi nama Efraim karena dia berkata, “Di negeri penderitaan, Allah sudah membuatku berhasil.”
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 Sesudah tujuh tahun, berakhirlah masa kemakmuran di Mesir
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
54 dan mulailah bencana kelaparan selama tujuh tahun berikutnya, tepat seperti perkataan Yusuf. Kelaparan melanda berbagai negeri, tetapi di Mesir tetap ada makanan.
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 Ketika seluruh rakyat Mesir kelaparan, mereka berseru kepada raja meminta makanan. Raja menyuruh mereka menghadap Yusuf dan melakukan apa yang dia perintahkan.
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 Sewaktu bencana kelaparan itu semakin parah di seluruh Mesir, Yusuf membuka gudang-gudang gandum dan menjualnya kepada penduduk Mesir. Bencana itu juga menyebar ke seluruh bumi sehingga orang dari bangsa-bangsa lain pun berdatangan kepada Yusuf untuk membeli gandum.
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.
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
