創世記 41
1 二年の後パロは夢を見た。夢に、彼はナイル川のほとりに立っていた。
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
2 すると、その川から美しい、肥え太った七頭の雌牛が上がってきて葦を食っていた。
And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fine-looking and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.
3 その後、また醜い、やせ細った他の七頭の雌牛が川から上がってきて、川の岸にいた雌牛のそばに立ち、
And behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, bad-looking and lean-fleshed, and stood by the kine on the bank of the river.
4 その醜い、やせ細った雌牛が、あの美しい、肥えた七頭の雌牛を食いつくした。ここでパロは目が覚めた。
And the kine that were bad-looking and lean-fleshed ate up the seven kine that were fine-looking and fat. And Pharaoh awoke.
5 彼はまた眠って、再び夢を見た。夢に、一本の茎に太った良い七つの穂が出てきた。
And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven ears of corn grew up on one stalk, fat and good.
6 その後また、やせて、東風に焼けた七つの穂が出てきて、
And behold, seven ears, thin and parched with the east wind, sprung up after them.
7 そのやせた穂が、あの太って実った七つの穂をのみつくした。ここでパロは目が覚めたが、それは夢であった。
And the thin ears devoured the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke; and behold, it was a dream.
8 朝になって、パロは心が騒ぎ、人をつかわして、エジプトのすべての魔術師とすべての知者とを呼び寄せ、彼らに夢を告げたが、これをパロに解き明かしうる者がなかった。
And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none to interpret them to Pharaoh.
9 そのとき給仕役の長はパロに告げて言った、「わたしはきょう、自分のあやまちを思い出しました。
Then spoke the chief of the cup-bearers to Pharaoh, saying, I remember mine offences this day.
10 かつてパロがしもべらに向かって憤り、わたしと料理役の長とを侍衛長の家の監禁所にお入れになった時、
Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody into the captain of the life-guard's house, me and the chief of the bakers.
11 わたしも彼も一夜のうちに夢を見、それぞれ意味のある夢を見ましたが、
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each according to the interpretation of his dream.
12 そこに侍衛長のしもべで、ひとりの若いヘブルびとがわれわれと共にいたので、彼に話したところ、彼はわれわれの夢を解き明かし、その夢によって、それぞれ解き明かしをしました。
And there was there with us a Hebrew youth, a bondman of the captain of the life-guard, to whom we told [them], and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each he interpreted according to his dream.
13 そして彼が解き明かしたとおりになって、パロはわたしを職に返し、彼を木に掛けられました」。
And it came to pass, just as he interpreted to us, so it came about: me has he restored to my office, and him he hanged.
14 そこでパロは人をつかわしてヨセフを呼んだ。人々は急いで彼を地下の獄屋から出した。ヨセフは、ひげをそり、着物を着替えてパロのもとに行った。
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph; and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. And he shaved [himself], and changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.
15 パロはヨセフに言った、「わたしは夢を見たが、これを解き明かす者がない。聞くところによると、あなたは夢を聞いて、解き明かしができるそうだ」。
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamt a dream, and there is none to interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, thou understandest a dream to interpret it.
16 ヨセフはパロに答えて言った、「いいえ、わたしではありません。神がパロに平安をお告げになりましょう」。
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 パロはヨセフに言った、「夢にわたしは川の岸に立っていた。
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the bank of the river.
18 その川から肥え太った、美しい七頭の雌牛が上がってきて葦を食っていた。
And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they fed in the reed-grass.
19 その後、弱く、非常に醜い、やせ細った他の七頭の雌牛がまた上がってきた。わたしはエジプト全国で、このような醜いものをまだ見たことがない。
And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed — such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
20 ところがそのやせた醜い雌牛が、初めの七頭の肥えた雌牛を食いつくしたが、
And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
21 腹にはいっても、腹にはいった事が知れず、やはり初めのように醜かった。ここでわたしは目が覚めた。
and they came into their belly, and it could not be known that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke.
22 わたしはまた夢をみた。一本の茎に七つの実った良い穂が出てきた。
And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good.
23 その後、やせ衰えて、東風に焼けた七つの穂が出てきたが、
And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them;
24 そのやせた穂が、あの七つの良い穂をのみつくした。わたしは魔術師に話したが、わたしにそのわけを示しうる者はなかった」。
and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me.
25 ヨセフはパロに言った、「パロの夢は一つです。神がこれからしようとすることをパロに示されたのです。
And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God will do he has made known to Pharaoh.
26 七頭の良い雌牛は七年です。七つの良い穂も七年で、夢は一つです。
The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
27 あとに続いて、上がってきた七頭のやせた醜い雌牛は七年で、東風に焼けた実の入らない七つの穂は七年のききんです。
And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine.
28 わたしがパロに申し上げたように、神がこれからしようとすることをパロに示されたのです。
This is the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has let Pharaoh see.
29 エジプト全国に七年の大豊作があり、
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt.
30 その後七年のききんが起り、その豊作はみなエジプトの国で忘れられて、そのききんは国を滅ぼすでしょう。
And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.
31 後に来るそのききんが、非常に激しいから、その豊作は国のうちで記憶されなくなるでしょう。
And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.
32 パロが二度重ねて夢を見られたのは、この事が神によって定められ、神がすみやかにこれをされるからです。
And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God will hasten to do it.
33 それゆえパロは今、さとく、かつ賢い人を尋ね出してエジプトの国を治めさせなさい。
And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34 パロはこうして国中に監督を置き、その七年の豊作のうちに、エジプトの国の産物の五分の一を取り、
Let Pharaoh do [this]: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,
35 続いて来る良い年々のすべての食糧を彼らに集めさせ、穀物を食糧として、パロの手で町々にたくわえ守らせなさい。
and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep [it].
36 こうすれば食糧は、エジプトの国に臨む七年のききんに備えて、この国のためにたくわえとなり、この国はききんによって滅びることがないでしょう」。
And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.
37 この事はパロとそのすべての家来たちの目にかなった。
And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his bondmen.
38 そこでパロは家来たちに言った、「われわれは神の霊をもつこのような人を、ほかに見いだし得ようか」。
And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find [one] as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
39 またパロはヨセフに言った、「神がこれを皆あなたに示された。あなたのようにさとく賢い者はない。
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none [so] discreet and wise as thou.
40 あなたはわたしの家を治めてください。わたしの民はみなあなたの言葉に従うでしょう。わたしはただ王の位でだけあなたにまさる」。
Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only concerning the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 パロは更にヨセフに言った、「わたしはあなたをエジプト全国のつかさとする」。
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42 そしてパロは指輪を手からはずして、ヨセフの手にはめ、亜麻布の衣服を着せ、金の鎖をくびにかけ、
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck.
43 自分の第二の車に彼を乗せ、「ひざまずけ」とその前に呼ばわらせ、こうして彼をエジプト全国のつかさとした。
And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
44 ついでパロはヨセフに言った、「わたしはパロである。あなたの許しがなければエジプト全国で、だれも手足を上げることはできない」。
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 パロはヨセフの名をザフナテ・パネアと呼び、オンの祭司ポテペラの娘アセナテを妻として彼に与えた。ヨセフはエジプトの国を巡った。
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
46 ヨセフがエジプトの王パロの前に立った時は三十歳であった。ヨセフはパロの前を出て、エジプト全国をあまねく巡った。
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.
47 さて七年の豊作のうちに地は豊かに物を産した。
And in the seven years of plenty the land brought forth by handfuls.
48 そこでヨセフはエジプトの国にできたその七年間の食糧をことごとく集め、その食糧を町々に納めさせた。すなわち町の周囲にある畑の食糧をその町の中に納めさせた。
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.
49 ヨセフは穀物を海の砂のように、非常に多くたくわえ、量りきれなくなったので、ついに量ることをやめた。
And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
50 ききんの年の来る前にヨセフにふたりの子が生れた。これらはオンの祭司ポテペラの娘アセナテが産んだのである。
And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On bore to him.
51 ヨセフは長子の名をマナセと名づけて言った、「神がわたしにすべての苦難と父の家のすべての事を忘れさせられた」。
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh — For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
52 また次の子の名をエフライムと名づけて言った、「神がわたしを悩みの地で豊かにせられた」。
And the name of the second he called Ephraim — For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 エジプトの国にあった七年の豊作が終り、
And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were ended;
54 ヨセフの言ったように七年のききんが始まった。そのききんはすべての国にあったが、エジプト全国には食物があった。
and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 やがてエジプト全国が飢えた時、民はパロに食物を叫び求めた。そこでパロはすべてのエジプトびとに言った、「ヨセフのもとに行き、彼の言うようにせよ」。
And all the land of Egypt suffered from the dearth. And the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he says to you, that do.
56 ききんが地の全面にあったので、ヨセフはすべての穀倉を開いて、エジプトびとに売った。ききんはますますエジプトの国に激しくなった。
And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was [provision], and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.
57 ききんが全地に激しくなったので、諸国の人々がエジプトのヨセフのもとに穀物を買うためにきた。
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy [grain], because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.
