Genesis 41
1 Tukun yac luo, tokosra lun Egypt el mweme mu el tu sisken Infacl Nile,
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
2 ac cow na fact ac wo lumah itkosr utyak liki infacl uh ac mutawauk in mongo mah.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
3 Na toko cow itkosr utyak pac, su sripisr ac koluk lumah. Elos tuku ac tu sisken cow ngia pe infacl ah,
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 ac cow sripisr ah kangla cow ma fact ah. Na tokosra el asmakla.
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
5 El sifilpa motulla ac liye sie pac mweme. Ung in wheat itkosr yohk pisa ac wo lumah, fokla ke sropoh sefanna.
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 Na ung itkosr saya srunak pac, masrinwasr ac mihsasa sroa ke sripen engyen ma tuku yen mwesis me.
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 Ac ung masrinwasr itkosr ah kangla ung ma yohk pisa ac wo lumah ah. Na tokosra el ngutalik ac akilenak lah el mweme.
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 In lotu tok ah el inse toasr ac fosrnga. Na el sapla solani mwet orek mwenmen ac mwet lalmwetmet nukewa in facl Egypt, ac fahk nu selos mweme lal ah. Tusruktu wangin sie ku in aketeya nu sel kalmac.
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 Na mwet okwok wain sac fahk nu sel tokosra, “Nga ac fahkak misenge lah ma na koluk se nga orala.
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 Kom tuh kasrkusrak sik oayapa sin sifa lun mwet manman flao, ac filikuti in presin, in lohm sin captain lun mwet liyaung mwet kapir.
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 Sie fong ah kut kewa tuh mweme, ac tia oana sie kalmen mweme lasr uh.
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
12 Oasr mwet fusr Hebrew se tuh wi kut muta we, su mwet kohs lun leum lun mwet topang inkul sin tokosra. Kut akkalemye mweme lasr uh nu sel, ac el fahkma nu sesr kalmac.
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 Ma nukewa tuh sikyak oana ke el fahk nu sesr ah. Kom folokinyuyang nu ke orekma luk, a kom srupusrak mwet manman flao sac.”
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 Tokosra el sapla solal Joseph, ac utuku el liki presin in kitin pacl ah na. Tukun el resala ac ayaolla, na el tuku nu ye mutal tokosra.
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 Na tokosra el fahk nu sel, “Nga tuh oru mweme se, a wangin sie mwet ku in aketeya. Nga lohng mu kom ku in fahkak kalmen mweme uh.”
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 Joseph el topuk, “Leum fulat luk, nga tia ku — tusruktu God El ac ase sie kalmac na wowo.”
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 Tokosra el fahk, “Nga mweme mu nga tu pe Infacl Nile,
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
18 na cow na fact ac wo lumah itkosr utyak liki infacl uh ac mutawauk in kang mah.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
19 Na cow itkosr saya utyak pac, a elos sripisr ac koluk lumah. Nga soenna wi liye cow purngus ouinge in kutena acn in Egypt.
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 Cow sripisr inge kangla cow ma fact ah,
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 tusruktu tia ku in akilenyuk, mweyen elos srakna purngus oana meet ah. Na nga ngutalik.
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 Nga oayapa mweme mu nga liye ung in wheat itkosr yohk pisa ac wo lumah, fokla ke sropoh sefanna.
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 Na ung itkosr saya srunak pac, masrinwasr ac mihsasa sroa ke sripen engyen ma tuku yen mwesis me.
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 Na ma masrinwasr inge kangla ma wo lumah. Nga tuh fahkak mweme inge nu sin mwet mwenmen, tusruktu wangin sie selos ku in aketeya nu sik kalmac.”
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 Joseph el fahk nu sel tokosra, “Mweme luo ingan kalmac uh oana sie. God El fahkot nu sin Tokosra ma God El ac oru.
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 Cow fact itkosr an pa yac itkosr, ac ung in wheat wo lumah itkosr an yac itkosr pac — eltal kalmac sefanna.
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 Cow sripisr itkosr ma tuku tok, ac ung in wheat masrinwasr itkosr ma mihsasa sroa ke engyen yen mwesis uh, pa yac in sracl itkosr.
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 Oana ke nga fahk nu sin Tokosra, God El akkalemyeot ma El ac fah oru.
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
29 Ac fah oasr yac itkosr ma acn nukewa in facl Egypt ac fah mut ac pukanten mongo.
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
30 Tukun pacl sac, yac in sracl itkosr ac fah tuku, na ac fah tia esamyuk yac wowo inge, mweyen sracl lulap sac ac akkolukyela facl se inge nufon.
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 Pacl in mut lulap sac ac fah tiana esamyuk, mweyen sracl se ma ac sikyak toko uh ac arulana upa.
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
32 Kalmen kalweniyuk mweme inge pa wotla tari sin God lah ma inge ac fah sikyak ke pacl na fototo.
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 “Ke ma inge Tokosra enenu in sulala sie mwet na lalmwetmet ac pah in nunak, ac sang elan liyaung facl se inge nufon.
“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 Enenu Tokosra in srisrngiya pac kutu mwet kol in eisani sie tafu limekosr ke ma mwet uh kosrani ke yac in mut itkosr ah.
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 Sapkin nu selos in orani mongo nukewa ke yac wo ac mut ekasr fahsru inge, ac sang ku nu selos in orani wheat nu in nien filma in siti uh, ac karinganang.
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 Mwe mongo ingan ac fah sie mwe tweng nu sin acn se inge ke yac in sracl itkosr ma ac tuku nu fin acn Egypt. Ma inge fin orek, mwet uh ac tia masrinsral.”
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 Tokosra ac mwet kacto lal elos akkeyala lemlem se inge,
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
38 ac tokosra el fahk nu selos, “Kut ac tia ku in konauk sie mwet su ac wo lukel Joseph — sie mwet su ngun lun God oasr yoro.”
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 Na tokosra el fahk nu sel Joseph, “God El akkalemye ma inge nukewa nu sum. Ke ma inge, kalem lah oasr lalmwetmet ac liyaten yurum liki kutena mwet saya.
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 Nga fah filikomi in liyaung facl sik uh, ac mwet nukewa luk ac fah akos sap lom. Wangin sie ac fah fulat liki kom sayuk.
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 Inge nga srisrngikomi in governor fin facl Egypt nufon.”
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
42 Tokosra el fwacla ring se ma sroalla sil fulat lal kac liki kufinpaol, ac sang nu ke kufinpaol Joseph. El filiya pac sie nuknuk linen na wowo nu facl, ac sang ah gold soko nu ke kwawal.
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 El sang nu sel chariot lun leum se akluo elan kasrusr fac, ac mwet soan lun tokosra elos kasrusr meet lukel, wowo ac fahk, “Sakunla! Sakunla!” Ouinge Joseph el srisrngiyuki governor fin acn Egypt nufon.
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 Tokosra el fahk nu sel, “Nga pa tokosra uh, ac wangin sie mwet in acn Egypt nufon ac fah oru kutena ma kom fin tia lela.”
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 Tokosra el sang ine Egypt se lal Joseph, na pangpang el Zaphenath-paneah, ac el eisalang Asenath, acn natul Potiphera mwet tol lun acn On, kial. Ouinge Joseph el wela oaleum fin acn Egypt.
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 Joseph el yac tolngoul ke el mutawauk kulansap lal nu sin Tokosra lun acn Egypt. Ac el illa liki ye mutal tokosra, ac fufahsryesr rauni acn Egypt nufon ke orekma kunal.
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 Ke lusen yac in mut itkosr ah, acn we kosrani mwe mongo puspis,
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
48 su Joseph el eisani ac karingin in siti uh. In kais sie siti el eisani mwe mongo nukewa ma orekeni ke ima in acn we.
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 Arulana pus wheat ma orekeni uh, pwanang Joseph el tila pauni — ma inge pukanten oana puk wekof uh.
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 Meet liki yac in sracl uh tuku, Asenath el oswela wen luo nu sel Joseph.
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
51 Joseph el fahk, “God El oru nga mulkunla keok nukewa luk, ac sou lun papa tumuk nukewa.” Ke ma inge el sang inen wen se meet ah Manasseh.
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 El oayapa fahk, “God El ase tulik nutik in acn nga ongoiya we.” Ouinge el sang inen wen se akluo ah Ephraim.
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 Yac in mut itkosr fin acn Egypt ah safla,
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
54 ac yac in sracl itkosr ah mutawauk, oana ke Joseph el tuh fahk. Facl nukewa saya pulakin sracl lulap sac, a pukanten mwe mongo in acn Egypt.
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 Pacl mwet Egypt elos ac mutawauk in masrinsral, na elos ac pang ac siyukyuk mongo sin tokosra. Na tokosra el ac sap elos in som nu yorol Joseph, ac oru oana ma el fahk.
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 Sracl sac upala nwe apunla facl sac nufon, ouinge Joseph el ikasla iwen fil mongo nukewa ac kukakin wheat uh nu sin mwet Egypt.
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 Mwet uh tuku liki yen nukewa faclu nu Egypt in moul wheat sel Joseph, ke sripen sracl sac arulana upala yen nukewa.
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
