Genesi 41
1 ED avvenne, in capo di due anni intieri, che Faraone sognò, e gli pareva di essere presso al fiume.
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
2 Ed ecco, dal fiume salivano sette vacche di bella apparenza, e grasse, e carnose, e pasturavano nella giuncaia.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
3 Poi ecco, dal fiume salivano sette altre vacche di brutta apparenza, e magre, e scarne; e si fermarono presso a quelle [altre] in su la riva del fiume.
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 E le vacche di brutta apparenza, e magre, e scarne, mangiarono le sette vacche di bella apparenza, e grasse. E Faraone si risvegliò.
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
5 Poi, raddormentatosi, sognò di nuovo: ed ecco, sette spighe prospere, e belle, salivano da un gambo.
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 Poi ecco, sette altre spighe minute, ed arse dal vento orientale, germogliavano dopo quelle.
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 E le spighe minute tranghiottirono le sette spighe prospere e piene. E Faraone si risvegliò; ed ecco un sogno.
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 E venuta la mattina, lo spirito suo fu conturbato; e mandò a chiamar tutti i Magi ed i Savi d'Egitto, e racontò loro i suoi sogni; ma non [vi fu] alcuno che li potesse interpretare a Faraone.
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 Allora il coppier maggiore parlò a Faraone, dicendo: Io mi rammemoro oggi i miei falli.
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 Faraone si crucciò [già] gravemente contro a' suoi servitori, e mise me e il panattier maggiore in prigione, in casa del Capitan delle guardie.
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 E sognammo egli ed io, in una [stessa] notte ciascuno un sogno; noi sognammo ciascuno il suo sogno, conveniente all'interpretazione che ne fu data.
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
12 Or quivi con noi [era] un giovane Ebreo, servitor del Capitan delle guardie, al quale noi raccontammo i nostri sogni, ed egli ce l'interpretò, dando la interpretazione a ciascuno secondo il suo sogno.
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 Ed avvenne che, secondo l'interpretazione ch'egli ci avea data, [Faraone] mi rimise nel mio stato, e fece appiccar quell'[altro].
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 Allora Faraone mandò a chiamar Giuseppe, il quale prestamente fu tratto fuor della fossa; ed egli [si] tondè, e si cambiò i vestimenti, e venne a Faraone.
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 E Faraone disse a Giuseppe: Io ho sognato un sogno, e non [vi è] niuno che l'interpreti; or io ho udito dir di te, che tu intendi i sogni, per interpretarli.
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 E Giuseppe rispose a Faraone, dicendo: [V'è altri] che me; Iddio risponderà [ciò che sarà per] la prosperità di Faraone.
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 E Faraone disse a Giuseppe: E' mi pareva nel mio sogno che io stava presso alla riva del fiume.
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
18 Ed ecco, dal fiume salivano sette vacche, grasse, e carnose, e di bella apparenza, e pasturavano nella giuncaia.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
19 Poi ecco, sette altre vacche salivano dietro a quelle, magre, e di bruttissima apparenza, e scarne; io non ne vidi [mai] di così misere in tutto il paese di Egitto.
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 E le vacche magre, e misere, mangiarono le sette prime vacche grasse.
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 E quelle entrarono loro in corpo; ma pur non se ne riconobbe nulla; conciossiachè fossero di così brutto aspetto, come prima. Ed io mi risvegliai.
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 E' mi [parve] ancora, sognando, veder sette spighe piene e belle, che salivano da un gambo.
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 Poi ecco, sette altre spighe aride, minute, arse dal vento orientale, germogliarono dopo quelle.
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 E le spighe minute tranghiottirono le sette spighe belle. Or io ho detti [questi sogni] a' Magi; ma non [vi è stato] alcuno che me [li] abbia saputi dichiarare.
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 Allora Giuseppe disse a Faraone: Ciò che ha sognato Faraone [è] una [stessa] cosa. Iddio ha significato a Faraone ciò ch'egli è per fare.
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 Le sette vacche belle son sette anni; e le sette spighe belle sono [altresì] sette anni; l'uno e l'altro sogno [sono] una [stessa] cosa.
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 Parimente, le sette vacche magre e brutte, che salivano dopo quelle, son sette anni; e le sette spighe vote, arse dal vento orientale, saranno sette anni di fame.
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 Questo è quello che io ho detto a Faraone: [Che] Iddio ha mostrato a Faraone ciò ch'egli è per fare.
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
29 Ecco, vengono sette anni di grande abbondanza in tutto il paese di Egitto.
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
30 Poi, dopo quelli, verranno sette anni di fame; e tutta quella abbondanza sarà dimenticata nel paese di Egitto; e la fame consumerà il paese.
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 E quell'abbondanza non si conoscerà nel paese, per cagion di quella fame [che verrà] appresso; perciocchè ella [sarà] molto aspra.
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
32 E quant'è a ciò che il sogno è stato reiterato per due volte a Faraone, [ciò è avvenuto], perchè la cosa [è] determinata da Dio; e Iddio l'eseguirà tosto.
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 Ora dunque provvegga[si] Faraone di un uomo intendente e savio, il quale egli costituisca sopra il paese di Egitto.
“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 Faraone faccia [questo: ] Ordini de' commissari nel paese; e facciasi dare il quinto [della rendita] del paese di Egitto, ne' sette anni dell'abbondanza.
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 E adunino [essi] tutta la vittuaglia di questi sette buoni anni che vengono, e ammassino il grano sotto la mano di Faraone, per vittuaglia nella città; e [lo] conservino.
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 E quella vittuaglia sarà per provvisione del paese, ne' sette anni della fame che saranno nel paese di Egitto; e il paese non sarà distrutto per la fame.
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 E la cosa piacque a Faraone e a tutti i suoi servitori.
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
38 E Faraone disse a' suoi servitori: Potremmo noi trovare alcuno pari a costui, [ch'è] uomo in cui [è] lo Spirito di Dio?
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 E Faraone disse a Giuseppe: Poichè Iddio ti ha manifestato tutto questo, e' non [vi è alcuno] intendente, nè savio, come [sei] tu.
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 sarai sopra la mia casa, e tutto il mio popolo ti bacerà in bocca; io non sarò più grande di te, salvo che nel trono.
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 Oltre a ciò, Faraone disse a Giuseppe: Vedi, io ti costituisco sopra tutto il paese di Egitto.
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
42 E Faraone si trasse il suo anello di mano, e lo mise in mano a Giuseppe, e lo fece vestir di vestimenti di bisso, e gli mise una collana d'oro al collo.
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 E lo fece salir sopra il carro della seconda [persona del] suo [regno]; e si gridava davanti a lui: Ognuno s'inginocchi; e ch'egli lo costituiva sopra tutto il paese di Egitto.
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 Faraone disse ancora a Giuseppe: Io [son] Faraone; niuno leverà il piè, nè la mano, in tutto il paese di Egitto, senza te.
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 E Faraone pose nome a Giuseppe Safenatpaanea; e gli diede per moglie Asenat, figliuola di Potifera, Governatore di On. E Giuseppe andò attorno per lo paese di Egitto.
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 (Or Giuseppe [era] d'età di trent'anni, quando egli si presentò davanti a Faraone, re di Egitto.) Giuseppe adunque si partì dal cospetto di Faraone, e passò per tutto il paese di Egitto.
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 E la terra produsse a menate, ne' sette anni dell'abbondanza.
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
48 E [Giuseppe] adunò tutta la vittuaglia di quei sette anni, che furono nel paese di Egitto, e la ripose nelle città; egli ripose in ciascuna tutta la vittuaglia del contado circonvicino.
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 Giuseppe adunque ammassò grano in grandissima quantità, come la rena del mare; tanto che si rimase di annoverar[lo]; perciocchè era innumerabile.
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 Ora, avanti che venisse [il primo] anno della fame, nacquero a Giuseppe due figliuoli; i quali Asenat, figliuola di Potifera, Governatore di On, gli partorì.
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
51 E Giuseppe pose nome al primogenito Manasse; perciocchè, [disse egli], Iddio mi ha fatto dimenticare ogni affanno, e tutta la casa di mio padre.
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 E pose nome al secondo, Efraim; perciocchè, [disse egli], Iddio mi ha fatto fruttare nel paese della mia afflizione.
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 Poi, finiti i sette anni dell'abbondanza che fu nel paese di Egitto;
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
54 cominciarono a venire i sette anni della fame, siccome Giuseppe avea detto; e vi fu fame per tutti i paesi; ma per tutto Egitto vi era del pane.
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 Alla fine tutto il paese di Egitto fu [anch'esso] affamato, e il popolo gridò a Faraone per del pane. E Faraone disse a tutti gli Egizj: Andate a Giuseppe, [e] fate ciò ch'egli vi dirà.
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 Ed essendo la fame per tutto il paese, Giuseppe aperse tutti i granai, e [ne] vendè agli Egizj. E la fame si aggravò nel paese di Egitto.
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 [Da] ogni paese eziandio si veniva in Egitto a Giuseppe, per comperar [del grano]; perciocchè la fame si era aggravata per tutta la terra.
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
