پیدایش 41
| دو سال بعد از این واقعه، شبی فرعون خواب دید که کنار رود نیل ایستاده است. | 1 |
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
| ناگاه هفت گاو چاق و فربه از رودخانه بیرون آمده، شروع به چریدن کردند. | 2 |
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
| سپس هفت گاو دیگر از رودخانه بیرون آمدند و کنار آن هفت گاو ایستادند، ولی اینها بسیار لاغر و استخوانی بودند. | 3 |
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.
| سپس گاوهای لاغر، گاوهای چاق را بلعیدند. آنگاه فرعون از خواب پرید. | 4 |
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
| او باز خوابش برد و خوابی دیگر دید. این بار دید که هفت خوشهٔ گندم روی یک ساقه قرار دارند که همگی پُر از دانه‌های گندم رسیده هستند. | 5 |
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.
| سپس هفت خوشهٔ نازک دیگر که باد شرقی آنها را خشکانیده بود، ظاهر شدند. | 6 |
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.
| خوشه‌های نازک و خشکیده، خوشه‌های پُر و رسیده را بلعیدند. آنگاه فرعون از خواب بیدار شد و فهمید که همه را در خواب دیده است. | 7 |
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.
| صبح روز بعد، فرعون که فکرش مغشوش بود، تمام جادوگران و دانشمندان مصر را احضار نمود و خوابهایش را برای ایشان تعریف کرد، ولی کسی قادر به تعبیر خوابهای او نبود. | 8 |
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.
| آنگاه رئیس ساقیان پیش آمده، به فرعون گفت: «الان یادم آمد که چه خطای بزرگی مرتکب شده‌ام. | 9 |
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.
| مدتی پیش، وقتی که بر غلامان خود غضب نمودی و مرا با رئیس نانوایان به زندانِ رئیس نگهبانانِ دربار انداختی، | 10 |
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.
| هر دو ما در یک شب خواب دیدیم و خواب هر یک از ما تعبیر خاص خود داشت. | 11 |
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
| ما خوابهایمان را برای جوانی عبرانی که غلامِ رئیس نگهبانان دربار و با ما همزندان بود، تعریف کردیم و او خوابهایمان را برای ما تعبیر کرد؛ | 12 |
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.
| و هر آنچه که گفته بود اتفاق افتاد. من به خدمت خود برگشتم و رئیس نانوایان به دار آویخته شد.» | 13 |
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].”
| آنگاه فرعون فرستاد تا یوسف را بیاورند، پس با عجله وی را از زندان بیرون آوردند. او سر و صورتش را اصلاح نمود و لباسهایش را عوض کرد و به حضور فرعون رفت. | 14 |
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.
| فرعون به او گفت: «من دیشب خوابی دیدم و کسی نمی‌تواند آن را برای من تعبیر کند. شنیده‌ام که تو می‌توانی خوابها را تعبیر کنی.» | 15 |
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.”
| یوسف گفت: «من خودم قادر نیستم خوابها را تعبیر کنم، اما خدا معنی خوابت را به تو خواهد گفت.» | 16 |
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.”
| پس فرعون خوابش را برای یوسف اینطور تعریف کرد: «در خواب دیدم کنار رود نیل ایستاده‌ام. | 17 |
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
| ناگهان هفت گاو چاق و فربه از رودخانه بیرون آمده، مشغول چریدن شدند. | 18 |
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
| سپس هفت گاو دیگر را دیدم که از رودخانه بیرون آمدند، ولی این هفت گاو بسیار لاغر و زشت و استخوانی بودند. هرگز در تمام سرزمین مصر، گاوهایی به این زشتی ندیده بودم. | 19 |
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!
| این گاوهای لاغر آن هفت گاو چاقی را که اول بیرون آمده بودند، بلعیدند. | 20 |
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
| پس از بلعیدن، هنوز هم گاوها لاغر و استخوانی بودند. در این موقع از خواب بیدار شدم. | 21 |
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.
| کمی بعد باز به خواب رفتم. این بار در خواب هفت خوشهٔ گندم روی یک ساقه دیدم که همگی پر از دانه‌های رسیده بودند. | 22 |
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.
| اندکی بعد، هفت خوشه که باد شرقی آنها را خشکانیده بود، نمایان شدند. | 23 |
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.
| ناگهان خوشه‌های نازک خوشه‌های پُر و رسیده را خوردند. همهٔ اینها را برای جادوگران خود تعریف کردم، ولی هیچ‌کدام از آنها نتوانستند تعبیر آنها را برای من بگویند.» | 24 |
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.”
| یوسف به فرعون گفت: «معنی هر دو خواب یکی است. خدا تو را از آنچه که در سرزمین مصر انجام خواهد داد، آگاه ساخته است. | 25 |
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.
| هفت گاو چاق و فربه و هفت خوشهٔ پُر و رسیده که اول ظاهر شدند، نشانهٔ هفت سالِ فراوانی است. | 26 |
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.
| هفت گاو لاغر و استخوانی و هفت خوشهٔ نازک و پژمرده، نشانهٔ هفت سال قحطی شدید است که به دنبال هفت سال فراوانی خواهد آمد. | 27 |
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).
| همان‌طور که به فرعون گفتم، خدا آنچه را که می‌خواهد به‌زودی در این سرزمین انجام دهد، به فرعون آشکار ساخته است. | 28 |
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
| طی هفت سال آینده در سراسر سرزمین مصر محصول، بسیار فراوان خواهد بود. | 29 |
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
| اما پس از آن، هفت سال قحطی پدید خواهد آمد، و همۀ آن فراوانی در سرزمین مصر فراموش خواهد شد و قحطی این سرزمین را تباه خواهد کرد. | 30 |
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.
| این قحطی چنان سخت خواهد بود که سالهای فراوانی از خاطره‌ها محو خواهد شد. | 31 |
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
| خوابهای دوگانه تو نشانهٔ این است که آنچه برایت شرح دادم، به‌زودی به وقوع خواهد پیوست، زیرا از جانب خدا مقرر شده است. | 32 |
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.
| من پیشنهاد می‌کنم که فرعون مردی دانا و حکیم بیابد و او را بر ادارهٔ امور کشاورزی این سرزمین بگمارد. | 33 |
“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.
| سپس فرعون باید مأمورانی مقرر کند تا در هفت سال فراوانی، یک پنجم محصولات مصر را ذخیره کنند. | 34 |
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.
| و همۀ آذوقۀ این سالهای خوب را که در پیش است، جمع کرده، به انبارهای سلطنتی ببرند. | 35 |
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.
| بدین ترتیب، در هفت سال قحطی بعد از آن، با کمبود خوراک مواجه نخواهید شد. در غیر این صورت، سرزمین شما در اثر قحطی از بین خواهد رفت.» | 36 |
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.”
| فرعون و همۀ افرادش پیشنهاد یوسف را پسندیدند. | 37 |
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
| سپس فرعون گفت: «چه کسی بهتر از یوسف می‌تواند از عهده این کار برآید، مردی که روح خدا در اوست.» | 38 |
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]
| سپس فرعون رو به یوسف نموده، گفت: «چون خدا تعبیر خوابها را به تو آشکار کرده است، پس داناترین و حکیم‌ترین شخص تو هستی. | 39 |
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.
| هم اکنون تو را بر کاخ خود می‌گمارم، و تمامی قوم من مطیع فرمان تو خواهند بود. فقط بر تخت سلطنت از تو بالاتر خواهم بود.» | 40 |
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.”
| سپس فرعون به یوسف گفت: «تو را بر سراسر سرزمین مصر می‌گمارم.» | 41 |
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
| آنگاه فرعون انگشتری سلطنتی خود را از دستش بیرون آورده، آن را به انگشت یوسف کرد و لباس فاخری بر او پوشانیده، زنجیر طلا به گردنش آویخت، | 42 |
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.
| و او را سوار دومین ارابهٔ سلطنتی خود کرد. او هر جا می‌رفت جلوی او جار می‌زدند: «زانو بزنید!» بدین ترتیب یوسف بر تمامی امور مصر گماشته شد. | 43 |
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.
| فرعون به یوسف گفت: «من فرعون هستم، ولی بدون اجازۀ تو هیچ‌کس در سراسر سرزمین مصر حق ندارد حتی دست یا پای خود را دراز کند.» | 44 |
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.”
| فرعون به یوسف، نام مصری صَفِنات فَعنیح را داد و اَسِنات دختر فوطی فارع، کاهن اون را به عقد وی درآورد. و یوسف در سراسر کشور مصر مشهور گردید. | 45 |
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.
| یوسف سی ساله بود که فرعون او را به خدمت گماشت. او دربار فرعون را ترک گفت تا به امور سراسر کشور رسیدگی کند. | 46 |
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.
| طی هفت سالِ فراوانی محصول، غله در همه جا بسیار فراوان بود. | 47 |
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
| در این سالها یوسف محصولات مزارع را در شهرهای اطراف ذخیره نمود. | 48 |
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.
| یوسف غلۀ بسیار زیاد همچون ریگ دریا، ذخیره کرد، به طوری که حساب از دستش در رفت، زیرا که دیگر نمی‌شد آنها را حساب کرد. | 49 |
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.
| قبل از پدید آمدن قحطی، یوسف از همسرش اسنات، دختر فوطی فارع، کاهن اون صاحب دو پسر شد. | 50 |
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
| یوسف پسر بزرگ خود را منسی نامید و گفت: «با تولد این پسر خدا به من کمک کرد تا تمامی خاطرهٔ تلخ جوانی و دوری از خانهٔ پدر را فراموش کنم.» | 51 |
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.”
| او دومین پسر خود را اِفرایم نامید و گفت: «خدا مرا در سرزمینِ سختیهایم، پرثمر گردانیده است.» | 52 |
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.”
| سرانجام هفت سالِ فراوانی به پایان رسید | 53 |
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
| و همان‌طور که یوسف گفته بود، هفت سالِ قحطی شروع شد. در کشورهای همسایهٔ مصر قحطی بود، اما در انبارهای مصر غلهٔ فراوان یافت می‌شد. | 54 |
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.
| گرسنگی بر اثر کمبود غذا آغاز شد و مردمِ مصر برای طلب کمک نزد فرعون رفتند و فرعون نیز آنها را نزد یوسف فرستاده، گفت: «بروید و آنچه یوسف به شما می‌گوید انجام دهید.» | 55 |
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.”
| پس در حالی که قحطی همه جا را فرا گرفته بود، یوسف انبارها را گشوده، غلهٔ مورد نیاز را به مصری‌ها می‌فروخت، زیرا قحطی در سرزمین مصر بسیار سخت بود. | 56 |
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.
| همچنین مردم از جاهای مختلف برای خرید غله نزد یوسف به مصر می‌آمدند، زیرا قحطی در سراسر زمین بسیار سخت بود. | 57 |
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
