ကမ္ဘာဦး 47
1 ၁ သို့ဖြစ်၍ယောသပ်သည်ဖာရောဘုရင်ထံ သို့သွားလေ၏။ ယောသပ်သည်ဘုရင့်ထံသို့ အခစားဝင်၍``ကျွန်တော်မျိုး၏အဖနှင့် အစ်ကိုတို့သည်သိုးနွားများနှင့်တကွ သူ တို့ပိုင်သမျှဥစ္စာပစ္စည်းများကိုယူဆောင်ကာ ခါနာန်ပြည်မှရောက်ရှိလာကြပါပြီ။ ယခု သူတို့သည်ဂေါရှင်အရပ်တွင်ရှိပါသည်'' ဟု လျှောက်လေ၏။-
౧యోసేపు వెళ్ళి ఫరోతో “మా నాన్న, నా అన్నలు వారి గొర్రెల మందలతో వారి పశువులతో వారికి కలిగినదంతటితో కనాను దేశం నుండి వచ్చి గోషెనులో ఉన్నారు” అని తెలియచేసి,
౨తన సోదరుల్లో ఐదు గురిని వెంటబెట్టుకుని వెళ్లి వారిని ఫరో ముందు నిలబెట్టాడు.
3 ၃ ဖာရောဘုရင်ကယောသပ်၏အစ်ကိုတို့ အား``သင်တို့မည်သည့်အလုပ်ကိုလုပ်ကိုင် ကြသနည်း'' ဟုမေးလေ၏။ သူတို့က``ကျွန်တော်မျိုးတို့သည်ဘိုးဘေး များကဲ့သို့သိုးထိန်းများဖြစ်ကြပါသည်။-
౩ఫరో, అతని సోదరులను చూసి “మీ వృత్తి ఏంటి?” అని అడిగితే వారు “నీ దాసులమైన మేమూ మా పూర్వికులు, గొర్రెల కాపరులం” అని ఫరోతో చెప్పారు.
4 ၄ ခါနာန်ပြည်တွင်အစာခေါင်းပါးခြင်းဘေး အလွန်ဆိုးရွားလျက်ရှိသဖြင့် သိုးနွားတို့ အတွက်စားကျက်မရှိပါ။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ကျွန်တော် မျိုးတို့သည်ဤပြည်တွင်နေထိုင်ရန်ရောက်လာ ကြပါသည်။ ကျွန်တော်မျိုးတို့အားဂေါရှင် အရပ်၌နေထိုင်ခွင့်ပေးတော်မူပါ'' ဟုလျှောက် ထားကြလေ၏။-
౪వారు “కనాను దేశంలో కరువు తీవ్రంగా ఉంది. నీ దాసుల మందలకు మేత లేదు కాబట్టి ఈ దేశంలో కొంత కాలముండడానికి వచ్చాము. గోషెను ప్రాంతంలో నీ దాసులు నివసించడానికి సెలవు ఇప్పించండి” అని ఫరోతో అన్నారు.
5 ၅ ဖာရောဘုရင်ကယောသပ်အား``သင်၏အဖ နှင့်အစ်ကိုတို့သည် သင့်ထံသို့ယခုရောက်ရှိ လာကြပြီဖြစ်၍၊-
౫ఫరో యోసేపును చూసి “మీ నాన్న, నీ సోదరులు నీ దగ్గరికి వచ్చారు.
6 ၆ အီဂျစ်ပြည်တွင်အကောင်းဆုံးအရပ်ဖြစ် သောဂေါရှင်ဒေသ၌နေထိုင်ကြပါစေ။ သူ တို့အနက်သင့်တော်သောသူများရှိလျှင် ငါ၏သိုးနွားအုပ်အရာ၌ခန့်ထားလော့'' ဟုမိန့်ကြားလေ၏။
౬ఐగుప్తు దేశం నీ ఎదుట ఉంది. ఈ దేశంలోని మంచి ప్రాంతంలో మీ నాన్న, నీ సోదరులూ నివసించేలా చెయ్యి. గోషెను ప్రాంతంలో వారు నివసించవచ్చు. వారిలో ఎవరైనా సమర్ధులని నీకు అనిపిస్తే నా మందల మీద వారిని అధిపతులుగా నియమించు” అని చెప్పాడు.
7 ၇ ထိုနောက်ယောသပ်သည်မိမိ၏အဖကိုဘုရင် ရှေ့သို့ခေါ်ဆောင်ခဲ့၏။ ယာကုပ်သည်ဖာရော ဘုရင်အားကောင်းချီးပေးလေ၏။-
౭యోసేపు తన తండ్రి యాకోబును లోపలికి తీసుకు వచ్చి ఫరో ముందు నిలబెట్టినప్పుడు, యాకోబు ఫరోను దీవించాడు.
౮ఫరో “నీ వయసెంత?” అని యాకోబును అడిగాడు.
9 ၉ ယာကုပ်က``ကျွန်တော်မျိုးသည်လောကတွင် ဧည့်သည်အာဂန္တုအဖြစ်နှစ်ပေါင်းတစ်ရာ့သုံး ဆယ်နေထိုင်ခဲ့ပါပြီ။ သို့ရာတွင်ဘိုးဘေး တို့၏သက်တမ်းကိုမမီပါ။ ကျွန်တော်မျိုး အသက်ရှင်ခဲ့သောနှစ်များမှာတို၍ကြမ်း တမ်းလှပါ၏'' ဟုလျှောက်လေ၏။-
౯యాకోబు “నేను ప్రయాణాలు చేసినవి 130 ఏళ్ళు. నా జీవించిన దినాలు కొద్డిగానూ బాధాకరమైనవిగానూ ఉన్నాయి. అవి నా పూర్వీకులు యాత్ర చేసిన సంవత్సరాలన్ని కాలేదు” అని ఫరోతో చెప్పి,
10 ၁၀ ထိုနောက်ယာကုပ်သည်ဖာရောဘုရင်ကိုနှုတ် ဆက်ကောင်းချီးပေးပြီးလျှင် ဘုရင့်ထံတော် မှထွက်လာခဲ့လေ၏။-
౧౦ఫరోను దీవించి వెళ్ళిపోయాడు.
11 ၁၁ ယောသပ်သည်ဖာရောဘုရင်အမိန့်တော်ရှိသည့် အတိုင်းသူ၏အဖနှင့်အစ်ကိုတို့အား အီဂျစ် ပြည်ရာမသက်မြို့အနီးရှိအကောင်းဆုံး အရပ်တွင်မြေအပိုင်ပေး၍နေထိုင်စေ၏။-
౧౧ఫరో ఆజ్ఞ ఇచ్చినట్లే, యోసేపు తన తండ్రికీ తన సోదరులకూ ఐగుప్తు దేశంలో రామెసేసు అనే మంచి ప్రదేశంలో స్వాస్థ్యం ఇచ్చాడు.
12 ၁၂ ယောသပ်သည်အဖနှင့်အစ်ကိုများအပါ အဝင် ယာကုပ်၏မိသားစုအားလုံးတို့ အားစားနပ်ရိက္ခာထောက်ပံ့လေ၏။
౧౨యోసేపు తన తండ్రినీ తన సోదరులనూ తన తండ్రి కుటుంబం వారినందరినీ పోషిస్తూ వారి పిల్లల లెక్క ప్రకారం ఆహారమిచ్చి సంరక్షించాడు.
13 ၁၃ အစာခေါင်းပါးခြင်းကပ်သည်အလွန်ဆိုးရွား ရကားစားနပ်ရိက္ခာပြတ်လပ်ကုန်သဖြင့် အီဂျစ် ပြည်နှင့်ခါနာန်ပြည်ရှိလူအပေါင်းတို့သည် အစာငတ်မွတ်သည့်ဒဏ်ကိုအလူးအလဲခံရ ကြ၏။-
౧౩కరువు చాలా తీవ్రంగా ఉంది కాబట్టి ఆ దేశమంతటా ఆహారం లేదు. కరువుతో ఐగుప్తు దేశం, కనాను దేశం దుర్బలమైన స్థితికి వచ్చాయి.
14 ၁၄ ယောသပ်သည်စပါးရောင်းရာမှရသောငွေ များကိုစုသိမ်း၍ နန်းတော်ငွေတိုက်သို့ပေး သွင်းလေ၏။-
౧౪యోసేపు ప్రజలకు ధాన్యం అమ్ముతూ ఐగుప్తు దేశంలోనూ కనాను దేశంలోనూ ఉన్న డబ్బంతా పోగుచేశాడు. ఆ డబ్బంతా, ఫరో భవనంలోకి యోసేపు తెప్పించాడు.
15 ၁၅ အီဂျစ်ပြည်သားနှင့်ခါနာန်ပြည်သားတို့ တွင်စပါးဝယ်ရန်ငွေကုန်သောအခါ အီဂျစ် ပြည်သားတို့သည်ယောသပ်ထံသို့လာ၍``ကျွန် တော်တို့အားစားစရာပေးပါ။ ငတ်၍မသေ ပါရစေနှင့်။ ကျွန်တော်တို့တွင်ရိက္ခာဝယ်ရန် ငွေမကျန်တော့ပါ'' ဟုလျှောက်ကြလေ သည်။
౧౫ఐగుప్తు దేశంలో కనాను దేశంలో డబ్బు అయిపోయిన తరువాత ఐగుప్తీయులంతా యోసేపు దగ్గరికి వచ్చి “మాకు ఆహారం ఇప్పించు. నీ ముందు మేమెందుకు చావాలి? మా డబ్బంతా అయిపోయింది” అన్నారు.
16 ၁၆ ယောသပ်က``သင်တို့တွင်ငွေကုန်လျှင် သင်တို့ ၏သိုးနွားတိရစ္ဆာန်များကိုယူခဲ့ကြလော့။ တိရစ္ဆာန်များကိုစပါးနှင့်လဲလှယ်ပေးမည်'' ဟုဆိုလေ၏။-
౧౬అందుకు యోసేపు “మీ పశువులు ఇవ్వండి, మీ డబ్బులు అయిపోతే మీ పశువులకు బదులు నేను మీకు ధాన్యమిస్తాను” అని చెప్పాడు.
17 ၁၇ သူတို့သည်တိရစ္ဆာန်များကိုယောသပ်ထံသို့ ယူဆောင်ခဲ့၍ယောသပ်သည်သူ့တို့၏ မြင်း၊ သိုး၊ ဆိတ်၊ နွား၊ မြည်းများကိုစားနပ်ရိက္ခာနှင့်လဲ လှယ်ပေးလေ၏။ ထိုနှစ်၌ပြည်သူပြည်သား တို့သည် မိမိတို့၏တိရစ္ဆာန်ရှိသမျှကိုစား နပ်ရိက္ခာနှင့်လဲလှယ်ကြလေသည်။
౧౭కాబట్టి వారు తమ పశువులను యోసేపు దగ్గరికి తెచ్చారు. ఆ సంవత్సరం, వారి మందలన్నిటికి బదులుగా అతడు వారికి ఆహారమిచ్చి వారిని పోషించాడు.
18 ၁၈ ထိုနှစ်ကုန်၍နောက်တစ်နှစ်သို့ရောက်ရှိလာ သောအခါ သူတို့သည်ယောသပ်ထံသို့လာ ကြပြန်၍``ကျွန်တော်တို့လက်တွင်ငွေလည်း ကုန်ကြောင်း၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်များလည်းကိုယ်တော်၏ လက်ဝယ်သို့ရောက်ရှိကြောင်း ကိုယ်တော်အသိ ပင်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ယခုကျွန်တော်တို့၏ကိုယ် နှင့်ကျွန်တော်တို့၏လယ်မြေများမှလွဲ၍ ကိုယ်တော်အားပေးရန်အဘယ်အရာမျှ မရှိတော့ပါ။-
౧౮ఆ సంవత్సరం గడిచాక, తరువాత సంవత్సరం వారు అతని దగ్గరికి వచ్చి “మా డబ్బంతా అయిపోయింది. ఆ సంగతి మా యజమానులైన మీ దగ్గర దాచలేము. మా పశువుల మందలన్నీ మా యజమానులైన మీ వశమయ్యాయి. మా శరీరాలూ మా భూములూ తప్ప ఇంకేమీ మాకు మిగలలేదు.
19 ၁၉ ကျွန်တော်တို့အစာငတ်၍မသေပါရစေနှင့်။ ကျွန်တော်တို့လယ်များလည်းပျက်ပြုန်းခြင်း မဖြစ်ပါစေနှင့်။ ကျွန်တော်တို့အားရိက္ခာပေး သည့်အတွက် ကျွန်တော်တို့နှင့်ကျွန်တော်တို့၏ လယ်မြေများကိုဝယ်တော်မူပါ။ ကျွန်တော်တို့ သည်ဖာရောဘုရင်ထံ၌ကျွန်ခံပါမည်။ လယ်မြေ များကိုလည်းဘုရင်လက်သို့အပ်ပါမည်။ ကျွန် တော်တို့အသက်မသေစေရန်လည်းကောင်း၊ လယ် များတွင်စိုက်ပျိုးနိုင်ရန်လည်းကောင်းစပါး ကိုပေးတော်မူပါ'' ဟုလျှောက်ကြလေ၏။
౧౯మీ కళ్ళముందు మేమూ మా పొలాలు ఎందుకు నశించాలి? ఆహారమిచ్చి మమ్మల్నీ మా పొలాలనూ కొనండి. మా పొలాలతో పాటు మేము ఫరోకు దాసులమవుతాం. మేము చావకుండా బతికేలా, పొలాలు పాడైపోకుండా మాకు విత్తనాలివ్వండి” అని అడిగారు.
20 ၂၀ သို့ဖြစ်၍ယောသပ်သည်အီဂျစ်ပြည်ရှိလယ် မြေအားလုံးကို ဖာရောဘုရင်အတွက်ဝယ် ယူလေ၏။ အစာခေါင်းပါးခြင်းကပ်ဆိုးရွား ခြင်းကြောင့်အီဂျစ်ပြည်သားတိုင်း မိမိ၏ လယ်မြေကိုရောင်းရသဖြင့်လယ်မြေအား လုံးတို့သည်ဘုရင့်ဘဏ္ဍာတော်ဖြစ်လာ၏။-
౨౦ఆవిధంగా, యోసేపు ఐగుప్తు భూములన్నిటినీ ఫరో కోసం కొన్నాడు. కరువు ఇగుప్తు వారిపాలిట తీవ్రంగా ఉండడం వలన వారంతా తమ పొలాలను అమ్మేశారు కాబట్టి, భూమి ఫరోది అయింది.
21 ၂၁ အီဂျစ်ပြည်တစ်စွန်းမှတစ်စွန်းအထိနေ ထိုင်သူအပေါင်းတို့သည်လည်း ဘုရင်၏ ကျွန်ဖြစ်လာကြ၏။-
౨౧అతడు ఐగుప్తు పొలిమేరల ఈ చివరనుండి ఆ చివర వరకూ ప్రజలను దాసులుగా చేశాడు.
22 ၂၂ ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်တို့သည်ဘုရင်ထံမှရိက္ခာ အထောက်အပံ့ရသူများဖြစ်သောကြောင့် မိမိ တို့လယ်မြေများကိုရောင်းချရန်မလို။ ထို့ ကြောင့်ယောသပ်သည်သူတို့၏လယ်မြေများ ကိုမဝယ်ယူဘဲချန်လှပ်ထားလေသည်။-
౨౨యాజకుల భూమి మాత్రమే అతడు కొనలేదు, యాజకులకు ఫరో భత్యం నియమించాడు. వారు ఫరో ఇచ్చిన ఆహారం తినే వారు కాబట్టి వారు తమ భూములను అమ్మలేదు.
23 ၂၃ ယောသပ်ကပြည်သားတို့အား``ယခုငါသည် သင်တို့နှင့်သင်တို့၏လယ်မြေများကိုဘုရင့် အတွက်ဝယ်ယူပြီးပြီ။ သင်တို့၏လယ်များ တွင်စိုက်ပျိုးရန်မျိုးစပါးကိုယူကြလော့။-
౨౩యోసేపు “ఇదిగో నేడు మిమ్మల్ని, మీ భూములను ఫరో కోసం కొన్నాను. మీకు విత్తనాలు ఇవిగో. పొలాల్లో చల్లండి.
24 ၂၄ စပါးရိတ်သိမ်းသည့်အခါငါးပုံတစ်ပုံကို ဘုရင့်ထံဆက်ရမည်။ ကျန်သောစပါးကိုမျိုး စပါးအတွက်နှင့်သင်တို့နှင့်မိသားစုစားသုံး ရန်အတွက်အသုံးပြုကြလော့'' ဟုဆိုလေ၏။
౨౪నాలుగు భాగాలు మీవి. పంటలో అయిదవ భాగం మీరు ఫరోకు ఇవ్వాలి. అది పొలాల్లో విత్తడానికీ మీ పిల్లలకూ మీ ఇంట్లోవారి ఆహారానికి” అని ప్రజలతో చెప్పాడు.
25 ၂၅ ပြည်သားတို့က``ကိုယ်တော်သည်ကျွန်တော်တို့ ၏အသက်ကိုကယ်တော်မူပါပြီ။ ကျွန်တော် တို့သည်ကိုယ်တော်ထံမှမျက်နှာသာရပါ စေသော၊ သနားညှာတာတော်မူပါပြီ။ ကျွန် တော်တို့သည်ဘုရင်ထံ၌ကျွန်ခံပါမည်'' ဟုလျှောက်ကြ၏။-
౨౫వారు “నువ్వు మా ప్రాణాలు నిలబెట్టావు. మాపై నీ దయ ఉండుగాక. మేము ఫరోకు బానిసలమవుతాం” అని చెప్పారు.
26 ၂၆ သို့ဖြစ်၍ယောသပ်သည်အီဂျစ်ပြည်တွင် အသီးအနှံထွက်ထဲမှ ငါးပုံတစ်ပုံကို ဖာရော ဘုရင်ထံဆက်ရမည်ဟူသောမြေယာဥပဒေ တစ်ရပ်ကိုပြဋ္ဌာန်းခဲ့လေသည်။ ထိုဥပဒေ သည်ယနေ့တိုင်အောင်အာဏာတည်လျက်ရှိ၏။ ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်တို့ပိုင်သောလယ်မြေများသာ လျှင်ထိုဥပဒေမှလွတ်ကင်းခွင့်ရှိသည်။
౨౬అప్పుడు ఐదవ భాగం ఫరోది అని యోసేపు ఐగుప్తు వారికి చట్టం నియమించాడు. అది ఇప్పటివరకూ నిలిచి వుంది. యాజకుల భూములు మాత్రమే ఫరోవి కాలేదు.
27 ၂၇ ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့သည်အီဂျစ် ပြည်ဂေါရှင်အရပ်၌နေထိုင်ကြစဉ်ကြီး ပွားတိုးတက်၍လူဦးရေအလွန်များပြား လာလေသည်။-
౨౭ఇశ్రాయేలీయులు ఐగుప్తు దేశంలోని గోషెను ప్రాంతంలో నివసించారు. అందులో వారు ఆస్తి సంపాదించుకుని సంతానాభివృద్ధి పొంది చాలా విస్తరించారు.
28 ၂၈ ယာကုပ်သည်အီဂျစ်ပြည်တွင်တစ်ဆယ့် ခုနစ်နှစ်နေထိုင်ခဲ့၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ယာကုပ် ၏သက်တမ်းမှာတစ်ရာ့လေးဆယ်ခုနစ် နှစ်ဖြစ်သတည်း။-
౨౮యాకోబు ఐగుప్తుదేశంలో 17 ఏళ్ళు జీవించాడు. యాకోబు మొత్తం 147 ఏళ్ళు బతికాడు.
29 ၂၉ သူသည်စုတေ့ရသောအချိန်နီးလာသော အခါ သားယောသပ်ကိုခေါ်၍ငါ့အားသင် မျက်နှာသာပေးမည်ဆိုလျှင်``ငါ၏ပေါင်အောက် မှာသင်၏လက်ကိုထားလျက် သင်၏ကရုဏာ နှင့်သစ္စာတရားကိုငါ့အားပြမည်ဟုကတိ ပြုပါလော့။ အဖကိုအီဂျစ်ပြည်၌သင်္ဂြိုဟ် ခြင်းမပြုပါနှင့်။-
౨౯ఇశ్రాయేలు అవసాన కాలం దగ్గర పడినప్పుడు అతడు తన కొడుకు యోసేపును పిలిపించి “నాపట్ల నీకు అభిమానం ఉంటే, నీ చెయ్యి నా తొడ కింద ఉంచి నాకు నమ్మకాన్నీ విశ్వాసాన్నీ కలిగించు. దయచేసి నన్ను ఐగుప్తులో పాతిపెట్టవద్దు.
30 ၃၀ အဖကိုအီဂျစ်ပြည်မှထုတ်ဆောင်၍အဖ၏ ဘိုးဘေးတို့သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ရာသင်္ချိုင်း၌သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ပါ လော့'' ဟုဆို၏။ ယောသပ်က``အဖဆန္ဒအတိုင်းကျွန်တော်ဆောင် ရွက်ပေးပါမည်'' ဟုဝန်ခံလေ၏။
౩౦నేను నా పితరులతో నిద్రించినప్పుడు ఐగుప్తులో నుంచి నన్ను తీసుకెళ్ళి, వారి సమాధిలో నన్ను పాతిపెట్టు” అని అతనితో చెప్పాడు.
31 ၃၁ သို့ရာတွင်ယာကုပ်က``ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးပါမည်ဟု ကျိန်ဆိုလော့'' ဟုဆိုသော်ယောသပ်သည်ကျိန်ဆို လေ၏။ ထိုနောက်ယာကုပ်သည်အိပ်ရာ၏ခေါင်း ရင်းတွင်ကျေးဇူးတော်ကိုချီးမွမ်းလေ၏။
౩౧అందుకు యోసేపు “నేను నీ మాట చొప్పున చేస్తాను” అన్నాడు. ఇశ్రాయేలు “నాతో ప్రమాణం చెయ్యి” అంటే, యోసేపు అతనితో ప్రమాణం చేశాడు. అప్పుడు ఇశ్రాయేలు తన పడక తలగడ దగ్గర వంగి నమస్కరించాడు.
