Gênesis 47
1 E José veio, e fez saber a Faraó, e disse: Meu pai e meus irmãos, e suas ovelhas e suas vacas, com tudo o que têm, vieram da terra de Canaã, e eis que, estão na terra de Gósen.
Joseph chose five of his [older] brothers to go with him to talk to the king. He introduced his [older] brothers to the king, and then he said, “My father and my [older] brothers [and younger brother] have come from the Canaan region. They have brought all their sheep and goats and cattle and everything else that they own, and they are living now in Goshen region.”
2 E dentre seus irmãos tomou cinco homens, e os apresentou diante de Faraó.
3 E Faraó disse a seus irmãos: Qual é vosso ofício? E eles responderam a Faraó: Pastores de ovelhas são teus servos, tanto nós como nossos pais.
The king asked the brothers, “What work do you do?” They replied, “We are shepherds, just as our ancestors were.”
4 Disseram ademais a Faraó: Por morar nesta terra viemos; porque não há pasto para as ovelhas de teus servos, pois a fome é grave na terra de Canaã: portanto, te rogamos agora que habitem teus servos na terra de Gósen.
They also said to him, “We have come here to live for a while in this land, because the famine is very severe in Canaan, and our animals have no (pasture/grass to eat) there. So now, please let us live in the Goshen region.”
5 Então Faraó falou a José, dizendo: Teu pai e teus irmãos vieram a ti;
The king said to Joseph, “I am happy that your father and your [older] brothers [and younger brother] have come to you.
6 A terra do Egito diante de ti está; no melhor da terra faze habitar a teu pai e a teus irmãos; habitem na terra de Gósen; e se entendes que há entre eles homens competentes, põe-os por administradores do meu gado.
They can live wherever you want in the whole country of Egypt. Give your father and your brothers the best part of the land. They can live in Goshen. And if you know that any of them have any special ability to work with livestock, have them be in charge of my own livestock, too.”
7 E José introduziu a seu pai, e apresentou-o diante de Faraó; e Jacó abençoou a Faraó.
Then Joseph brought his father Jacob [into the palace] and introduced him to the king. Jacob asked God to bless the king.
8 E disse Faraó a Jacó: Quantos são os dias dos anos de tua vida?
Then the king asked Jacob, “How old are you?”
9 E Jacó respondeu a Faraó: Os dias dos anos de minha peregrinação são cento e trinta anos; poucos e maus foram os dias dos anos de minha vida, e não chegaram aos dias dos anos da vida de meus pais nos dias de sua peregrinação.
Jacob replied, “I have been traveling around for 130 years. I have not lived as long as my ancestors, but my life has been full of troubles.”
10 E Jacó abençoou a Faraó, e saiu-se de diante de Faraó.
Then Jacob again [asked God to] bless the king, and left him.
11 Assim José fez habitar a seu pai e a seus irmãos, e deu-lhes possessão na terra do Egito, no melhor da terra, na terra de Ramessés como mandou Faraó.
[That is how Joseph enabled his father and older] brothers [and younger brother] to start living in Egypt. As the king had commanded, he gave them property in the best part of the land, in [Goshen, which is now called] Rameses.
12 E alimentava José a seu pai e a seus irmãos, e a toda a casa de seu pai, de pão, segundo o número de seus filhos.
Joseph also provided food for all his father’s family. The amounts that he gave them were according to how many children each of them had.
13 E não havia pão toda a terra, e a fome era muito grave; pelo que desfaleceu de fome a terra do Egito e a terra de Canaã.
There were no crops growing in the whole region, because the famine was very severe. The people of Egypt and Canaan [MTY] became weak because they did not have enough food to eat.
14 E recolheu José todo o dinheiro que se achou na terra do Egito e na terra de Canaã, pelos alimentos que dele compravam; e meteu José o dinheiro na casa de Faraó.
Joseph collected all the money that the people in Egypt and Canaan paid for the grain they were buying from him, and he brought the money to the king’s palace.
15 E acabado o dinheiro da terra do Egito e da terra de Canaã, veio todo Egito a José dizendo: Dá-nos pão: por que morreremos diante de ti, por haver-se acabado o dinheiro?
When the people of Egypt and Canaan had spent all their money for grain, they all kept coming to Joseph and saying, “Please give us some food! If you do not give us grain, we will die [RHQ]! We have used all our money to buy food, and we have no money left!”
16 E José disse: Dai vossos gados, e eu vos darei por vossos gados, se se acabou o dinheiro.
Joseph replied, “Since your money is all gone, bring me your livestock. If you do that, I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”
17 E eles trouxeram seus gados a José; e José lhes deu alimentos por cavalos, e pelo rebanho das ovelhas, e pelo rebanho das vacas, e por asnos: e sustentou-os de pão por todos os seus gados aquele ano.
So they brought their livestock to Joseph. He gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle, and their donkeys.
18 E acabado aquele ano, vieram a ele o segundo ano, e lhe disseram: Não encobriremos a nosso senhor que o dinheiro certamente se acabou; também o gado é já de nosso senhor; nada restou diante de nosso senhor a não ser nossos corpos e nossa terra.
The next year they came to him again and said, “We cannot hide this from you: We have no more money, and now our livestock belongs to you. We have only our bodies and our land to give to you. We have nothing else left.
19 Por que morreremos diante de teus olhos, tanto nós como nossa terra? Compra a nós e a nossa terra por pão, e seremos nós e nossa terra servos de Faraó; e dá-nos semente para que vivamos e não morramos, e não seja assolada a terra.
(If you do not give us some food, we will die!/Do you want to watch us die?) [RHQ] If you do not give us seeds, our fields will become useless [IDM]. Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we will be the king’s slaves, and he will own the land. Give us seeds that we can plant and grow food, in order that we will not die, and in order that our land will not become like a desert.”
20 Então comprou José toda a terra do Egito para Faraó; pois os egípcios venderam cada um suas terras, porque se agravou a fome sobre eles: e a terra veio a ser de Faraó.
So Joseph bought all the farms in Egypt for the king. The people of Egypt each sold their land to him because the famine was very severe, [and they had no other way to get money to buy food]. So all the farms became the king’s farms.
21 E ao povo o fez passar às cidades desde um fim do termo do Egito até o outro fim.
As a result, Joseph caused all the people from one border of the country to the other to become the king’s slaves.
22 Somente a terra dos sacerdotes não comprou, porquanto os sacerdotes tinham ração de Faraó, e eles comiam sua ração que Faraó lhes dava: por isso não venderam sua terra.
But he did not buy the priests’ land, because they received food from the king regularly, so the food that the king gave them was enough for them. That is the reason they did not sell their land to him.
23 E José disse ao povo: Eis que comprei hoje vós e vossa terra para Faraó: vede aqui semente, e semeareis a terra.
Joseph said to the people [who sold themselves and their land to him], “Listen to me! Today I have bought you and your land for the king. So here are seeds for you so that you can plant them in the ground.
24 E será que dos frutos dareis o quinto a Faraó, e as quatro partes serão vossas para semear as terras, e para vosso mantimento, e dos que estão em vossas casas, e para que comam vossos meninos.
But when you harvest the crop, you must give one-fifth of the crop to the king. The rest of the crop you can keep, to be seed to plant in the fields, and to be food for you and your children and for everyone else in your household to eat.”
25 E eles responderam: A vida nos deste: achemos favor aos olhos de meu senhor, e sejamos servos de Faraó.
They replied, “You have saved our lives! We want you to be pleased with us. And we will be the king’s slaves.”
26 Então José o pôs por estatuto até hoje sobre a terra do Egito, assinalando para Faraó o quinto; exceto somente a terra dos sacerdotes, que não foi de Faraó.
So Joseph made a law about all the land in Egypt, stating that one-fifth of the crops that are harvested belongs to the king. That law still exists. Only the land that belonged to the priests did not become the king’s land.
27 Assim habitou Israel na terra do Egito, na terra de Gósen; e apossaram-se nela, y se aumentaram, e multiplicaram em grande maneira.
Jacob and his family started to live in Egypt, in the Goshen region. They acquired property there. Many children were born to them there. As a result, their population increased greatly.
28 E viveu Jacó na terra do Egito dezessete anos: e foram os dias de Jacó, os anos de sua vida, cento quarenta e sete anos.
Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years. Altogether he lived 147 years.
29 E achegaram-se os dias de Israel para morrer, e chamou a José seu filho, e lhe disse: Se achei agora favor em teus olhos, rogo-te que ponhas tua mão debaixo de minha coxa, e farás comigo misericórdia e verdade; rogo-te que não me enterres no Egito;
When it was almost time for him to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have pleased you, make a solemn promise that you will be kind to me and faithfully do what I am now asking you: When I die, do not bury me here in Egypt.
30 Mas quando dormir com meus pais, me levarás de Egito, e me sepultarás no sepulcro deles. E ele respondeu: Eu farei como tu dizes.
Instead, take my body out of Egypt, and bury it in Canaan where my ancestors are buried.” Joseph replied, “I will do that.”
31 E ele disse: Jura-me isso. E ele lhe jurou. Então Israel se inclinou sobre a cabeceira da cama.
Jacob said, “(Swear/Solemnly promise) to me that you will do it!” So Joseph swore to do it. Then Jacob turned over in bed, bowed his head, and worshiped God.
