Gênesis 41
1 E aconteceu que, ao fim de dois anos inteiros, faraó sonhou, e eis que estava em pé junto ao rio,
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
2 E eis que subiam do rio sete vacas, formosas à vista e gordas de carne, e pastavam no prado.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
3 E eis que subiam do rio após elas outras sete vacas, feias à vista e magras de carne; e paravam junto às outras vacas na praia do rio.
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.
4 E as vacas feias à vista, e magras de carne, comiam as sete vacas formosas à vista e gordas. Então acordou faraó.
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
5 Depois dormiu, e sonhou outra vez, e eis que brotavam de uma cana sete espigas cheias e boas,
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.
6 E eis que sete espigas miúdas, e queimadas do vento oriental, brotavam após elas.
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.
7 E as espigas miúdas devoravam as sete espigas grandes e cheias. Então acordou faraó, e eis que era um sonho.
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.
8 E aconteceu que pela manhã o seu espírito perturbou-se, e enviou e chamou todos os adivinhadores do Egito, e todos os seus sábios; e faraó contou-lhes os seus sonhos, mas ninguém havia que os interpretasse a faraó.
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.
9 Então falou o copeiro-mór a faraó, dizendo: Dos meus pecados me lembro hoje:
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.
10 Estando faraó mui indignado contra os seus servos, e pondo-me em guarda na casa do capitão da guarda, a mim e ao padeiro-mór,
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.
11 Então sonhamos um sonho na mesma noite, eu e ele, cada um conforme a interpretação do seu sonho sonhamos.
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
12 E estava ali conosco um mancebo hebreu, servo do capitão da guarda, e contamos-lhos, e interpretou-nos os nossos sonhos, a cada um os interpretou conforme o seu sonho.
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.
13 E como ele nos interpretou, assim mesmo foi feito: a mim me fez tornar ao meu estado, e a ele fez enforcar.
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].”
14 Então enviou faraó, e chamou a José, e o fizeram sair logo da cova; e barbeou-se e mudou os seus vestidos, e veio a faraó.
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.
15 E faraó disse a José: Eu sonhei um sonho, e ninguém há que o intérprete; mas de ti ouvi dizer que quando ouves um sonho o interpretas.
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.”
16 E respondeu José a faraó, dizendo: Sem mim é isso: Deus responderá paz a faraó.
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.”
17 Então disse faraó a José: Eis que em meu sonho estava eu em pé na praia do rio
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
18 E eis que subiam do rio sete vacas gordas de carne e formosas à vista, e pastavam no prado.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
19 E eis que outras sete vacas subiam após estas, muito feias à vista, e magras de carne; não tenho visto outras tais, enquanto à fealdade, em toda a terra do Egito.
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!
20 E as vacas magras e feias comiam os primeiras sete vacas gordas;
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 E entravam em suas entranhas, mas não se conhecia que houvessem entrado em suas entranhas: porque o seu parecer era feio como no princípio. Então acordei.
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.
22 Depois vi em meu sonho, e eis que de uma cana subiam sete espigas cheias e boas;
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.
23 E eis que sete espigas secas, miúdas e queimadas do vento oriental, brotavam após elas.
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.
24 E as sete espigas miúdas devoravam as sete espigas boas. E eu disse-o aos magos, mas ninguém houve que mo interpretasse.
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.”
25 Então disse José a faraó: O sonho de faraó é um só; o que Deus há de fazer, notificou a faraó.
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.
26 As sete vacas formosas são sete anos; as sete espigas formosas também são sete anos: o sonho é um só
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.
27 E as sete vacas feias à vista e magras, que subiam depois delas, são sete anos; e as sete espigas miúdas e queimadas do vento oriental, serão sete anos de fome.
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).
28 Esta é a palavra que tenho dito a faraó; o que Deus há de fazer, mostrou-o a faraó.
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
29 E eis que veem sete anos, e haverá grande fartura em toda a terra do Egito.
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
30 E depois deles levantar-se-ão sete anos de fome, e toda aquela fartura será esquecida na terra do Egito, e a fome consumirá a terra;
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.
31 E não será conhecida a abundância na terra, por causa daquela fome que haverá depois; porquanto será gravíssima.
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
32 E que o sonho foi duplicado duas vezes a faraó, é porquanto esta coisa é determinada de Deus, e Deus se apressa a faze-la.
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.
33 Portanto faraó se proveja agora dum varão entendido e sábio, e o ponha sobre a terra do Egito:
“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.
34 Faça isso faraó, e ponha governadores sobre a terra, e tome a quinta parte da terra do Egito nos sete anos de fartura,
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.
35 E ajuntem toda a comida destes bons anos, que veem, e amontoem o trigo debaixo da mão de faraó, para mantimento nas cidades, e o guardem;
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.
36 Assim será o mantimento para provimento da terra, para os sete anos de fome, que haverá na terra do Egito; para que a terra não pereça de fome.
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.”
37 E esta palavra foi boa aos olhos de faraó, e aos olhos de todos os seus servos.
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
38 E disse faraó a seus servos: Achariamos um varão como este, em quem haja o espírito de Deus?
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]
39 Depois disse faraó a José: Pois que Deus te fez saber tudo isto, ninguém há tão entendido e sábio como tu
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.
40 Tu estarás sobre a minha casa, e por tua boca se governará todo o meu povo, somente no trono eu serei maior que tu
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.”
41 Disse mais faraó a José: Vês aqui te tenho posto sobre toda a terra do Egito.
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
42 E tirou faraó o seu anel da sua mão, e o pôs na mão de José, e o fez vestir de vestidos de linho fino, e pôs um colar de ouro no seu pescoço,
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.
43 E o fez subir no segundo carro que tinha, e clamavam diante dele: ajoelhai; assim o pôs sobre toda a terra do Egito.
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.
44 E disse faraó a José: Eu sou faraó; porém sem ti ninguém levantará a sua mão ou o seu pé em toda a terra do Egito
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.”
45 E chamou faraó o nome de José Zaphnath-paneah, e deu-lhe por mulher a Asenath, filha de Potiphera, sacerdote de On; e saiu José por toda a terra do Egito.
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.
46 E José era da idade de trinta anos quando esteve diante da face de faraó, rei do Egito. E saiu José da face de faraó, e passou por toda a terra do Egito.
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.
47 E a terra produziu nos sete anos de fartura a mãos cheias.
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
48 E ajuntou todo o mantimento dos sete anos, que houve na terra do Egito, e guardou o mantimento nas cidades, pondo nas cidades o mantimento do campo que estava ao redor de cada cidade.
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.
49 Assim ajuntou José muitíssimo trigo, como a areia do mar, até que cessou de contar; porquanto não havia numeração.
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.
50 E nasceram a José dois filhos (antes que viesse um ano de fome), que lhe pariu Asenath, filha de Potiphera, sacerdote de On.
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
51 E chamou José o nome do primogênito Manasseh; porque disse: Deus me fez esquecer de todo o meu trabalho, e de toda a casa de meu pai.
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.”
52 E o nome do segundo chamou Ephraim; porque disse: Deus me fez crescer na terra da minha aflição.
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.”
53 Então acabaram-se os sete anos de fartura que havia na terra do Egito,
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
54 E começaram a vir os sete anos de fome, como José tinha dito; e havia fome em todas as terras, mas em toda a terra do Egito havia pão.
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.
55 E tendo toda a terra do Egito fome, clamou o povo a faraó por pão; e faraó disse a todos os egípcios: Ide a José; o que ele vos disser, fazei.
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.”
56 Havendo pois fome sobre toda a terra, abriu José tudo em que havia mantimento, e vendeu aos egípcios; porque a fome prevaleceu na terra de Egito.
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.
57 E todas as terras vinham ao Egito, para comprar de José; porquanto a fome prevaleceu em todas as terras.
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
