Genesis 41
1 Post duos annos vidit Pharao somnium. Putabat se stare super fluvium,
Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream, and look, he was standing by the Nile.
2 de quo ascendebant septem boves, pulchræ et crassæ nimis: et pascebantur in locis palustribus.
And look, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.
3 Aliæ quoque septem emergebant de flumine, fœdæ, confectæque macie: et pascebantur in ipsa amnis ripa in locis virentibus:
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 devoraveruntque eas, quarum mira species, et habitudo corporum erat. Expergefactus Pharao,
The miserable-looking and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
5 rursum dormivit, et vidit alterum somnium: Septem spicæ pullulabant in culmo uno plenæ atque formosæ:
And he slept and dreamed a second time. And look, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
6 aliæ quoque totidem spicæ tenues, et percussæ uredine oriebantur,
Then look, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprouted up after them.
7 devorantes omnium priorum pulchritudinem. Evigilans Pharao post quietem,
The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up, and look, it was a dream.
8 et facto mane, pavore perterritus, misit ad omnes coniectores Ægypti, cunctosque sapientes: et accersitis narravit somnium, nec erat qui interpretaretur.
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 Tunc demum reminiscens pincernarum magister, ait: Confiteor peccatum meum:
Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
10 Iratus rex servis suis, me et magistrum pistorum retrudi iussit in carcerem principis militum:
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 ubi una nocte uterque vidimus somnium præsagum futurorum.
We had a dream on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own meaning.
12 Erat ibi puer Hebræus, eiusdem ducis militum famulus: cui narrantes somnia,
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 audivimus quidquid postea rei probavit eventus. Ego enim redditus sum officio meo: et ille suspensus est in cruce.
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 Protinus ad regis imperium eductum de carcere Ioseph totonderunt: ac veste mutata, obtulerunt ei.
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 Cui ille ait: Vidi somnia, nec est qui edisserat: quæ audivi te sapientissime coniicere.
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 Respondit Ioseph: Absque me Deus respondebit prospera Pharaoni.
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "Apart from God, the welfare of Pharaoh will receive no answer. "
17 Narravit ergo Pharao quod viderat: Putabam me stare super ripam fluminis,
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream, look, I stood on the edge of the Nile.
18 et septem boves de amne conscendere, pulchras nimis, et obesis carnibus: quæ in pastu paludis virecta carpebant.
And look, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.
19 Et ecce, has sequebantur aliæ septem boves in tantum deformes et macilentæ, ut numquam tales in terra Ægypti viderim:
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 quæ, devoratis et consumptis prioribus,
The thin and miserable-looking cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
21 nullum saturitatis dedere vestigium: sed simili macie et squalore torpebant. Evigilans, rursus sopore depressus,
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 vidi somnium: Septem spicæ pullulabant in culmo uno plenæ atque pulcherrimæ.
And I fell asleep, and I saw in my dream, and look, seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.
23 Aliæ quoque septem tenues et percussæ uredine, oriebantur e stipula:
And look, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprouted up after them.
24 quæ priorum pulchritudinem devoraverunt. Narravi coniectoribus somnium, et nemo est qui edisserat.
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 Respondit Ioseph: Somnium regis unum est: quæ facturus est Deus, ostendit Pharaoni.
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one. God has told Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 Septem boves pulchræ, et septem spicæ plenæ: septem ubertatis anni sunt: eamdemque vim somnii comprehendunt.
The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. The dreams are the same.
27 Septem quoque boves tenues atque macilentæ, quæ ascenderunt post eas, et septem spicæ tenues, et vento urente percussæ, septem anni venturæ sunt famis.
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 Qui hoc ordine complebuntur:
It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
29 Ecce septem anni venient fertilitatis magnæ in universa terra Ægypti:
Look, seven years of great abundance will come throughout all the land of Egypt.
30 quos sequentur septem anni alii tantæ sterilitatis, ut oblivioni tradatur cuncta retro abundantia: consumptura est enim fames omnem terram,
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 et ubertatis magnitudinem perditura est inopiæ magnitudo.
and the abundance will not be remembered in the land because of the famine that follows it, for it will be very severe.
32 Quod autem vidisti secundo ad eamdem rem pertinens somnium: firmitatis indicium est, eo quod fiat sermo Dei, et velocius impleatur.
Now the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the matter has been fixed by God, and God will carry it out soon.
33 Nunc ergo provideat rex virum sapientem et industrium, et præficiat eum Terræ Ægypti:
Now therefore Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man, and give him authority over the land of Egypt.
34 Qui constituat præpositos per cunctas regiones: et quintam partem fructuum per septem annos fertilitatis,
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 qui iam nunc futuri sunt, congreget in horrea: et omne frumentum sub Pharaonis potestate condatur, serveturque in urbibus.
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 Et præparetur futuræ septem annorum fami, quæ oppressura est Ægyptum, et non consumetur terra inopia.
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 Placuit Pharaoni consilium et cunctis ministris eius:
The proposal was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
38 locutusque est ad eos: Num invenire poterimus talem virum, qui Spiritu Dei plenus sit?
Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
39 Dixit ergo ad Ioseph: Quia ostendit tibi Deus omnia quæ locutus es, numquid sapientiorem et consimilem tui invenire potero?
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
40 Tu eris super domum meam, et ad tui oris imperium cunctus populus obediet: uno tantum regni solio te præcedam.
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 Dixitque rursus Pharao ad Ioseph: Ecce, constitui te super universam terram Ægypti.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Look, I have put you in charge over all the land of Egypt."
42 Tulitque annulum de manu sua, et dedit eum in manu eius: vestivitque eum stola byssina, et collo torquem auream circumposuit.
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 Fecitque eum ascendere super currum suum secundum, clamante præcone, ut omnes coram eo genu flecterent, et præpositum esse scirent universæ Terræ Ægypti.
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 Dixit quoque rex ad Ioseph: Ego sum Pharao: absque tuo imperio non movebit quisquam manum aut pedem in omni terra Ægypti.
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 Vertitque nomen eius, et vocavit eum lingua Ægyptiaca, Salvatorem mundi. Deditque illi uxorem Aseneth filiam Putiphare sacerdotis Heliopoleos. Egressus est itaque Ioseph ad terram Ægypti
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 (Triginta autem annorum erat quando stetit in conspectu regis Pharaonis) et circuivit omnes regiones Ægypti.
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 Venitque fertilitas septem annorum: et in manipulos redactæ segetes congregatæ sunt in horrea Ægypti.
During the seven years of abundance the land produced large harvests.
48 Omnis etiam frugum abundantia in singulis urbibus condita est.
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 Tantaque fuit abundantia tritici, ut arenæ maris coæquaretur, et copia mensuram excederet.
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 Nati sunt autem Ioseph filii duo antequam veniret fames: quos peperit ei Aseneth filia Putiphare sacerdotis Heliopoleos.
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 Vocavitque nomen primogeniti, Manasses, dicens: Oblivisci me fecit Deus omnium laborum meorum, et domus patris mei.
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: "For God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."
52 Nomen quoque secundi appellavit Ephraim, dicens: Crescere me fecit Deus in terra paupertatis meæ.
And the name of the second he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."
53 Igitur transactis septem ubertatis annis, qui fuerant in Ægypto:
And the seven years of abundance that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end.
54 cœperunt venire septem anni inopiæ: quos prædixerat Ioseph: et in universo orbe fames prævaluit, in cuncta autem terra Ægypti panis erat.
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 Qua esuriente, clamavit populus ad Pharaonem, alimenta petens. Quibus ille respondit: Ite ad Ioseph: et quidquid ipse vobis dixerit, facite.
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 Crescebat autem quotidie fames in omni terra: aperuitque Ioseph universa horrea, et vendebat Ægyptiis: nam et illos oppresserat fames.
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 Omnesque provinciæ veniebant in Ægyptum, ut emerent escas, et malum inopiæ temperarent.
And all the countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
