پیدایش 49
| آنگاه یعقوب پسرانش را فرا خواند و به ایشان گفت: «دور من جمع شوید تا به شما بگویم که در آینده بر شما چه خواهد گذشت. | 1 |
Jacob summoned all his sons, and said to them,
| ای پسران یعقوب به سخنان پدر خود اسرائیل گوش دهید. | 2 |
“Gather around me in order that I can tell you what will happen in the future. My sons, come and listen to me. I am your father, [Jacob, whom God named] Israel.
| «رئوبین، تو پسر ارشد منی! توانایی من و نوبر قدرت من! تو در مقام و قدرت از همه برتری، | 3 |
Reuben, you are my oldest son. You were born when I was young and energetic/strong. You are prouder and stronger than all the rest of my sons.
| ولی چون امواج سرکش دریا، خروشانی. پس از این دیگر برتر از همه نخواهی بود، زیرا با یکی از زنان من نزدیکی نموده، مرا بی‌حرمت کردی. | 4 |
But you were as uncontrollable as a flood [SIM]. So now you will not be my most important son, because you climbed up onto my bed, and had sex with [MTY] my (concubine/slave who had become one of my wives). Your doing that caused me, your father, to have great shame.
| «شمعون و لاوی، شما مثل هم هستید، مردانی بی‌رحم و بی‌انصاف. | 5 |
Simeon and Levi, you have both acted like criminals. You use your swords to act violently.
| من هرگز در نقشه‌های پلید شما شریک نخواهم شد، زیرا از روی خشم خود انسانها را کُشتید و خودسرانه رگ پاهای گاوان را قطع کردید. | 6 |
I do not want to be with you when you make evil plans [DOU]. I do not want to join you in your meetings, because you killed people when you became very angry, and you (hamstrung/cut the tendons in the legs of) oxen just to (have fun/see them suffer).
| لعنت بر خشم شما که اینچنین شدید و بی‌رحم بود. من نسل شما را در سراسر سرزمین اسرائیل پراکنده خواهم ساخت. | 7 |
God says, ‘I will (curse/cause bad things to happen to) them for being very angry, for acting very cruelly when they were very furious. I will scatter their descendants [MTY] throughout Israel land.’
| «ای یهودا، برادرانت تو را ستایش خواهند کرد. تو دشمنانت را منهدم خواهی نمود. | 8 |
Judah, your [older and younger] brothers will praise you. They will bow down before you, because you will thoroughly defeat [MTY] your enemies.
| یهودا مانند شیر بچه‌ای است که از شکار برگشته و خوابیده است. کیست که جرأت کند او را بیدار سازد؟ | 9 |
Judah is like a young lion [SIM] that has returned to its den satisfied after eating the animals that it has killed. He is like a lion that lies down and stretches out after eating; no one would dare to disturb it [RHQ].
| عصای سلطنت از یهودا دور نخواهد شد و نه چوگان فرمانروایی از فرزندان او، تا شیلو که همهٔ قومها او را اطاعت می‌کنند، بیاید. | 10 |
There will always be a ruler [MTY] from the descendants of Judah [MTY]. Each one will hold a scepter/staff to show that he has authority as a king. He will do that until the one to whom the scepter belongs comes, the one to whom the nations will bring tribute and show that they will obey him.
| الاغ خود را به بهترین درخت انگور خواهد بست و جامهٔ خود را در شراب خواهد شست. | 11 |
The grapevines of Judah’s descendants will produce grapes very abundantly. As a result, they will not object to tying their young donkeys to the grapevines in order that the donkeys can eat the leaves of the grapevines. [Wine will be very plentiful, with the result that] they could wash their cloaks in wine that is as red as blood [MET].
| چشمان او تیره‌تر از شراب و دندانهایش سفیدتر از شیر خواهد بود. | 12 |
Their eyes will be red because of [drinking too much] wine, but their teeth will be very white because of drinking much milk [from the cows].
| «زبولون در سواحل دریا ساکن خواهد شد و بندری برای کشتیها خواهد بود و مرزهایش تا صیدون گسترش خواهد یافت. | 13 |
Zebulun, your descendants will live by the seashore where there will be a safe harbor for ships. Their land will extend north as far as Sidon [city].
| «یساکار حیوان بارکش نیرومندی است که زیر بار خود خوابیده است. | 14 |
Issachar, your descendants will be like strong donkeys that are lying down on the ground between their loads, [so tired that they cannot get up]!
| وقتی ببیند جایی که خوابیده دلپسند است، تن به کار خواهد داد و چون برده‌ای به بیگاری کشیده خواهد شد. | 15 |
They will see that their resting place is good, and that the land pleases them very much. But they will bend their backs to carry heavy loads and be forced to work for others.
| «دان قبیلهٔ خود را چون یکی از قبایل اسرائیل داوری خواهد کرد. | 16 |
Dan, although your tribe will be small, their leaders will rule their people just like the leaders of other tribes of Israel will rule their people.
| او مثل مار بر سر راه قرار گرفته، پاشنه اسبان را نیش خواهد زد تا سوارانشان سرنگون شوند. | 17 |
Your descendants will be like snakes at the side of a road, like poisonous snakes lying beside a path. They will strike the heels of horses that pass by, causing the riders to fall backwards [as the horses rear up on their hind legs].”
| خداوندا، منتظر نجات تو می‌باشم. | 18 |
Then Jacob prayed, “Yahweh, I am waiting for you to rescue me [from my enemies].”
| «جاد مورد یورش غارتگران واقع خواهد شد، اما آنها وقتی عقب نشینند، او بر آنها یورش خواهد آورد. | 19 |
[Then Jacob continued telling his sons what would happen in the future. He said], “Gad, your tribe/descendants will be attacked by a group of bandits, but your tribe/descendants will pursue and attack them [MTY].
| «اشیر سرزمینی حاصلخیز خواهد داشت و از محصول آن برای پادشاهان خوراک تهیه خواهد کرد. | 20 |
Asher, your descendants will eat good-tasting food; they will produce food that is delicious enough for kings to eat.
| «نفتالی غزالی است آزاد که بچه‌های زیبا به وجود می‌آورد. | 21 |
Naphtali, your descendants will be like deer [MET] that are (free to/not tied down and can) run wherever they wish. They will give birth to children who are good-looking like (fawns/baby deer) [MET].
| «یوسف درخت پرثمریست در کنار چشمهٔ آب که شاخه‌هایش به اطراف سایه افکنده است. | 22 |
Joseph, you will have many descendants [MET]. Their children will be as many as the fruit on a vine near a spring of water, whose branches extend over a wall.
| دشمنان بر او هجوم آوردند و با تیرهای خود به او صدمه زدند. | 23 |
Their enemies will attack them fiercely, and shoot at them with bows and arrows and pursue them.
| ولی کمان او پایدار ماند و بازوانش قوی گردید به دست خدای قادر یعقوب، شبان و صخرۀ اسرائیل. | 24 |
But they will hold their bows steady and their arms will remain strong, because of the power [MTY] of my mighty God, because of Yahweh who guides and provides for me [MET] like a shepherd guides and provides for his sheep. The people of Israel will [ask Yahweh to protect them], [like people hide under] a huge [overhanging] to be protected.
| باشد که خدای قادر مطلق، خدای پدرت، تو را یاری کند و از برکات آسمانی و زمینی بهره‌مند گرداند و فرزندان تو را زیاد سازد. | 25 |
God, the one whom I worship, will help your descendants. God Almighty will bless them by sending them rain from the sky and by giving them water from deep/far below the ground. He will give them many cattle and children [MET] (OR, and their cattle will have many offspring).
| برکت پدر تو عظیم‌تر از وفور محصولات کوههای قدیمی است. تمام این برکات بر یوسف که از میان برادرانش برگزیده شد، قرار گیرد. | 26 |
The blessings that I want God to give you are great ones. They are greater than the blessings that come from the eternal mountains, greater than the ones that come from the everlasting hills. Joseph, I pray that these blessings will (be given to you/come upon your head), because you are the leader of your [older] brothers [and younger brother].
| «بنیامین گرگ درنده‌ای است که صبحگاهان دشمنانش را می‌بلعد و شامگاهان آنچه را که به غنیمت گرفته است، تقسیم می‌نماید.» | 27 |
Benjamin, your descendants will be like [MET] vicious/fierce wolves: In the morning they will kill their enemies like a wolf devours (its prey/the animals that it has killed), and in the evening they will divide among their warriors the spoils that they seized from their enemies.”
| این بود برکات یعقوب به پسران خود که دوازده قبیلهٔ اسرائیل را به وجود آوردند. | 28 |
Those twelve sons are the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel. That is what their father said to them as he blessed them, telling to each one words that were appropriate for him.
| سپس یعقوب چنین وصیت کرد: «من به‌زودی می‌میرم و به اجداد خود می‌پیوندم. شما جسد مرا به کنعان برده، در کنار پدرانم در غاری که در زمین عِفرون حیتّی است دفن کنید، | 29 |
Then Jacob said to his sons, “I will soon die. Bury my body where some of my ancestors are buried, in the cave that is in the field that was bought from Ephron, who belonged to the Heth people-group.
| همان غاری که در زمین مکفیله، نزدیک ممری است و ابراهیم آن را با مزرعه‌اش از عفرون حیتّی خرید تا مقبره خانوادگی‌اش باشد. | 30 |
That field is in the Machpelah area, east of Mamre [town], in Canaan. My grandfather Abraham bought it from Ephron to use as a burial place.
| در آنجا ابراهیم و همسرش سارا، اسحاق و همسر وی ربکا دفن شده‌اند. لیه را هم در آنجا به خاک سپردم. | 31 |
That is where they buried him and his wife Sarah. That is where they buried my father Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And that is where I buried my wife Leah.
| پدربزرگم ابراهیم آن غار و مزرعه‌اش را برای همین منظور از حیتّی‌ها خرید.» | 32 |
That field and the cave in it were bought from the Heth people-group; so that is where I want you to bury me.”
| پس از آنکه یعقوب این وصیت را با پسرانش به پایان رساند، بر بستر خود دراز کشیده، جان سپرد و به اجداد خود پیوست. | 33 |
When Jacob finished giving those instructions to his sons, he lay down on his bed again. Then he died [IDM].
