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。
Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream, and look, he was standing by the Nile.
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 look, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.
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 look, seven other cows came up after them out of the Nile, miserable-looking and thin, and stood by the other cows at the edge of the Nile.
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。
The miserable-looking and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
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 a second time. And look, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy 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、
Then look, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprouted 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。
The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up, and look, 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。
It happened in the morning that his mind was troubled, so he summoned all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could 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 the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
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 angry with his servants and put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
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、
We had a dream on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own meaning.
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。
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guards, and we told him, and he interpreted our dreams to us, to each man he interpreted according to his own 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 happened just the way he interpreted them to us, so it was: I was restored to my office, and he was 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 summoned Joseph, and they brought him quickly out of the pit. And he shaved himself, 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 had a dream, but there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said about you that when you hear a dream you can 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, "Apart from God, the welfare of Pharaoh will receive no answer. "
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。
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream, look, I stood on the edge of the Nile.
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 look, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.
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 look, seven other cows came up after them, scrawny and very miserable-looking and thin. I had never seen such bad-looking cows in all the land of Egypt.
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、
The thin and miserable-looking cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
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。
But when they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as miserable-looking as at the beginning. Then I woke up.
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 fell asleep, and I saw in my dream, and look, seven heads of grain growing 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 look, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprouted 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 seven thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. And I told it to the magicians, but no one could tell me its meaning."
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。
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one. God has told Pharaoh what he is about to do.
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 good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. The dreams are the same.
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 thin and miserable-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind. They are 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。
It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
29 エジプト全国に七年の大豊作があり、
Look, seven years of great abundance will come throughout all 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。
But after them seven years of famine will come, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate 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 abundance will not be remembered in the land because of the famine that follows it, for it will be very severe.
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。
Now the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the matter has been fixed by God, and God will carry it out soon.
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。
Now therefore Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man, and give him authority 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、
Pharaoh should do this, and should appoint overseers over the land, and they should take a fifth of all the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
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。
They should gather all the food during these good years that are coming and store the grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and they should preserve 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」。
That food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine that will come on the land of Egypt, so that the land will survive 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。
The proposal was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
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」。
Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
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。
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
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」。
You will be in charge of my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you."
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」。
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Look, I have put you in charge 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、
Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain around 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 had him ride in the second chariot which he had, and they called out before him, "Bow the knee. " So he put him in charge over the entire 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」。
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will do anything or go anywhere 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。
Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah. And he gave him Asenath the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. So Joseph went out through 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。
Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the 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。
During the seven years of abundance the land produced large harvests.
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 collected all the food during the seven years when there was abundance in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He placed in every city the food from the fields surrounding 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。
Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, because it could not be measured.
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。
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of 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」。
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: "For God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."
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 made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."
53 エジプトの国にあった七年の豊作が終り、
And the seven years of abundance that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end.
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。
Then the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was food.
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」。
When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh said to all Egypt, "Go to Joseph. Whatever he says to you, 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。
So the famine was over all the surface of the land. Then Joseph opened all the storehouses of grain and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe 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 the countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
