創世記 40
1 これらの事の後、エジプト王の給仕役と料理役とがその主君エジプト王に罪を犯した。
And it comes to pass, after these things—the butler of the king of Egypt and the baker have sinned against their lord, against the king of Egypt;
2 パロはふたりの役人、すなわち給仕役の長と料理役の長に向かって憤り、
and Pharaoh is angry against his two eunuchs, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers,
3 侍衛長の家の監禁所、すなわちヨセフがつながれている獄屋に入れた。
and puts them in confinement in the house of the chief of the executioners, into the round-house, the place where Joseph [is] a prisoner,
4 侍衛長はヨセフに命じて彼らと共におらせたので、ヨセフは彼らに仕えた。こうして彼らは監禁所で幾日かを過ごした。
and the chief of the executioners charges Joseph with them, and he serves them; and they are in confinement [for some] days.
5 さて獄屋につながれたエジプト王の給仕役と料理役のふたりは一夜のうちにそれぞれ意味のある夢を見た。
And they dream a dream both of them, each his dream in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker whom the king of Egypt has, who [are] prisoners in the round-house.
6 ヨセフが朝、彼らのところへ行って見ると、彼らは悲しみに沈んでいた。
And Joseph comes to them in the morning, and sees them, and behold, they [are] morose;
7 そこでヨセフは自分と一緒に主人の家の監禁所にいるパロの役人たちに尋ねて言った、「どうして、きょう、あなたがたの顔色が悪いのですか」。
and he asks Pharaoh’s eunuchs who [are] with him in confinement in the house of his lord, saying, “Why [are] your faces sad today?”
8 彼らは言った、「わたしたちは夢を見ましたが、解いてくれる者がいません」。ヨセフは彼らに言った、「解くことは神によるのではありませんか。どうぞ、わたしに話してください」。
And they say to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it”; and Joseph says to them, “Are interpretations not with God? Please recount to me.”
9 給仕役の長はその夢をヨセフに話して言った、「わたしが見た夢で、わたしの前に一本のぶどうの木がありました。
And the chief of the butlers recounts his dream to Joseph and says to him, “In my dream, then behold, a vine [is] before me!
10 そのぶどうの木に三つの枝があって、芽を出し、花が咲き、ぶどうのふさが熟しました。
And in the vine [are] three branches, and it [is] as it were flourishing; gone up has its blossom, its clusters have ripened grapes;
11 時にわたしの手に、パロの杯があって、わたしはそのぶどうを取り、それをパロの杯にしぼり、その杯をパロの手にささげました」。
and Pharaoh’s cup [is] in my hand, and I take the grapes and press them into the cup of Pharaoh, and I give the cup into the hand of Pharaoh.”
12 ヨセフは言った、「その解き明かしはこうです。三つの枝は三日です。
And Joseph says to him, “This [is] its interpretation: the three branches are three days;
13 今から三日のうちにパロはあなたの頭を上げて、あなたを元の役目に返すでしょう。あなたはさきに給仕役だった時にされたように、パロの手に杯をささげられるでしょう。
yet, within three days Pharaoh lifts up your head, and has put you back on your station, and you have given the cup of Pharaoh into his hand, according to the former custom when you were his butler.
14 それで、あなたがしあわせになられたら、わたしを覚えていて、どうかわたしに恵みを施し、わたしの事をパロに話して、この家からわたしを出してください。
Surely if you have remembered me with you, when it is well with you, and have please done kindness with me, and have made mention of me to Pharaoh, then you have brought me out from this house,
15 わたしは、実はヘブルびとの地からさらわれてきた者です。またここでもわたしは地下の獄屋に入れられるような事はしなかったのです」。
for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they have put me in the pit [for].”
16 料理役の長はその解き明かしの良かったのを見て、ヨセフに言った、「わたしも夢を見たが、白いパンのかごが三つ、わたしの頭の上にあった。
And the chief of the bakers sees that he has interpreted good, and he says to Joseph, “I also [am] in a dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread [are] on my head,
17 一番上のかごには料理役がパロのために作ったさまざまの食物があったが、鳥がわたしの頭の上のかごからそれを食べていた」。
and in the highest basket [are] of all [kinds] of Pharaoh’s food, work of a baker; and the birds are eating them out of the basket, from off my head.”
18 ヨセフは答えて言った、「その解き明かしはこうです。三つのかごは三日です。
And Joseph answers and says, “This [is] its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
19 今から三日のうちにパロはあなたの頭を上げ離して、あなたを木に掛けるでしょう。そして鳥があなたの肉を食い取るでしょう」。
yet, within three days Pharaoh lifts up your head from off you, and has hanged you on a tree, and the birds have eaten your flesh from off you.”
20 さて三日目はパロの誕生日であったので、パロはすべての家来のためにふるまいを設け、家来のうちの給仕役の長の頭と、料理役の長の頭を上げた。
And it comes to pass, on the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, that he makes a banquet to all his servants, and lifts up the head of the chief of the butlers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants,
21 すなわちパロは給仕役の長を給仕役の職に返したので、彼はパロの手に杯をささげた。
and he puts back the chief of the butlers to his butlership, and he gives the cup into the hand of Pharaoh;
22 しかしパロは料理役の長を木に掛けた。ヨセフが彼らに解き明かしたとおりである。
and the chief of the bakers he has hanged, as Joseph has interpreted to them;
23 ところが、給仕役の長はヨセフを思い出さず、忘れてしまった。
and the chief of the butlers has not remembered Joseph, but forgets him.
