Genesis 41
1 post duos annos vidit Pharao somnium putabat se stare super fluvium
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
2 de quo ascendebant septem boves pulchrae et crassae nimis et pascebantur in locis palustribus
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well favoured and fatfleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
3 aliae quoque septem emergebant de flumine foedae confectaeque macie et pascebantur in ipsa amnis ripa in locis virentibus
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
4 devoraveruntque eas quarum mira species et habitudo corporum erat expergefactus Pharao
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 rursum dormivit et vidit alterum somnium septem spicae pullulabant in culmo uno plenae atque formonsae
And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
6 aliae quoque totidem spicae tenues et percussae uredine oriebantur
And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
7 devorantes omnem priorum pulchritudinem evigilans post quietem
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
8 et facto mane pavore perterritus misit ad coniectores Aegypti cunctosque sapientes et accersitis narravit somnium nec erat qui interpretaretur
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
9 tunc demum reminiscens pincernarum magister ait confiteor peccatum meum
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
10 iratus rex servis suis me et magistrum pistorum retrudi iussit in carcerem principis militum
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker:
11 ubi una nocte uterque vidimus somnium praesagum futurorum
and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
12 erat ibi puer hebraeus eiusdem ducis militum famulus cui narrantes somnia
And there was with us there a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
13 audivimus quicquid postea rei probavit eventus ego enim redditus sum officio meo et ille suspensus est in cruce
And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
14 protinus ad regis imperium eductum de carcere Ioseph totonderunt ac veste mutata obtulerunt ei
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
15 cui ille ait vidi somnia nec est qui edisserat quae audivi te prudentissime conicere
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.
16 respondit Ioseph absque me Deus respondebit prospera Pharaoni
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 narravit ergo ille quod viderat putabam me stare super ripam fluminis
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river:
18 et septem boves de amne conscendere pulchras nimis et obesis carnibus quae in pastu paludis virecta carpebant
and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass:
19 et ecce has sequebantur aliae septem boves in tantum deformes et macilentae ut numquam tales in terra Aegypti viderim
and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
20 quae devoratis et consumptis prioribus
and the lean and ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
21 nullum saturitatis dedere vestigium sed simili macie et squalore torpebant evigilans rursum sopore depressus
and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22 vidi somnium septem spicae pullulabant in culmo uno plenae atque pulcherrimae
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good:
23 aliae quoque septem tenues et percussae uredine oriebantur stipula
and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
24 quae priorum pulchritudinem devorarunt narravi coniectoribus somnium et nemo est qui edisserat
and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
25 respondit Ioseph somnium regis unum est quae facturus est Deus ostendit Pharaoni
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh.
26 septem boves pulchrae et septem spicae plenae septem ubertatis anni sunt eandemque vim somnii conprehendunt
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
27 septem quoque boves tenues atque macilentae quae ascenderunt post eas et septem spicae tenues et vento urente percussae septem anni sunt venturae famis
And the seven lean and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.
28 qui hoc ordine conplebuntur
That is the thing which I spake unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do he hath shewed unto Pharaoh.
29 ecce septem anni venient fertilitatis magnae in universa terra Aegypti
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
30 quos sequentur septem anni alii tantae sterilitatis ut oblivioni tradatur cuncta retro abundantia consumptura est enim fames omnem terram
and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
31 et ubertatis magnitudinem perditura inopiae magnitudo
and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.
32 quod autem vidisti secundo ad eandem rem pertinens somnium firmitatis indicium est eo quod fiat sermo Dei et velocius impleatur
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
33 nunc ergo provideat rex virum sapientem et industrium et praeficiat eum terrae Aegypti
Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34 qui constituat praepositos per singulas regiones et quintam partem fructuum per septem annos fertilitatis
Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
35 qui iam nunc futuri sunt congreget in horrea et omne frumentum sub Pharaonis potestate condatur serveturque in urbibus
And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
36 et paretur futurae septem annorum fami quae pressura est Aegyptum et non consumetur terra inopia
And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
37 placuit Pharaoni consilium et cunctis ministris eius
And the thing 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
And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?
39 dixit ergo ad Ioseph quia ostendit Deus tibi omnia quae locutus es numquid sapientiorem et similem tui invenire potero
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou:
40 tu eris super domum meam et ad tui oris imperium cunctus populus oboediet uno tantum regni solio te praecedam
thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 dicens quoque rursum Pharao ad Ioseph ecce constitui te super universam terram Aegypti
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42 tulit anulum de manu sua et dedit in manu eius vestivitque eum stola byssina et collo torquem auream circumposuit
And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
43 fecitque ascendere super currum suum secundum clamante praecone ut omnes coram eo genuflecterent et praepositum esse scirent universae terrae Aegypti
and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
44 dixit quoque rex ad Ioseph ego sum Pharao absque tuo imperio non movebit quisquam manum aut pedem in omni terra Aegypti
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 vertitque nomen illius et vocavit eum lingua aegyptiaca Salvatorem mundi dedit quoque illi uxorem Aseneth filiam Putiphare sacerdotis Heliopoleos egressus itaque Ioseph ad terram Aegypti
And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
46 triginta autem erat annorum quando stetit in conspectu regis Pharaonis circuivit omnes regiones Aegypti
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 venitque fertilitas septem annorum et in manipulos redactae segetes congregatae sunt in horrea Aegypti
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 omnis etiam frugum abundantia in singulis urbibus condita est
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 tantaque fuit multitudo tritici ut harenae maris coaequaretur et copia mensuram excederet
And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
50 nati sunt autem Ioseph filii duo antequam veniret fames quos ei peperit Aseneth filia Putiphare sacerdotis Heliopoleos
And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bare unto him.
51 vocavitque nomen primogeniti Manasse dicens oblivisci me fecit Deus omnium laborum meorum et domum patris mei
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For, [said he], God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
52 nomen quoque secundi appellavit Ephraim dicens crescere me fecit Deus in terra paupertatis meae
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 igitur transactis septem annis ubertatis qui fuerant in Aegypto
And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
54 coeperunt venire septem anni inopiae quos praedixerat Ioseph et in universo orbe fames praevaluit in cuncta autem terra Aegypti erat panis
And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 qua esuriente clamavit populus ad Pharaonem alimenta petens quibus ille respondit ite ad Ioseph et quicquid vobis dixerit facite
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
56 crescebat autem cotidie fames in omni terra aperuitque Ioseph universa horrea et vendebat Aegyptiis nam et illos oppresserat fames
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
57 omnesque provinciae veniebant in Aegyptum ut emerent escas et malum inopiae temperarent
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
