Génesis 41
1 Aconteció que después de dos años completos Faraón tuvo un sueño. Ciertamente él estaba en pie junto al Nilo,
Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile [River].
2 y del Nilo subían siete vacas hermosas y gordas que apacentaban en el juncal.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
3 Inmediatamente después de ellas subían del Nilo otras siete vacas feas y flacas, y se colocaron junto a las otras vacas a la orilla del Nilo.
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 Las vacas feas y flacas devoraron a las siete vacas hermosas y gordas. Y Faraón despertó.
Then the unhealthy thin cows ate the seven healthy fat cows. And then the king woke up.
5 Se volvió a dormir y soñó la segunda vez. Ahí estaban siete espigas gruesas y hermosas que crecían de un mismo tallo.
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 Sin embargo, después de ellas brotaron otras siete espigas delgadas y resecas por el viento del este.
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 Las espigas delgadas devoraron a las siete espigas gruesas y hermosas. Y Faraón despertó. Fue un sueño.
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 Sucedió que por la mañana su espíritu estaba perturbado, y mandó llamar a todos los hechiceros de Egipto y a todos sus sabios. Faraón les narró sus sueños, pero no había quien se los interpretara.
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 Entonces el principal de los coperos habló a Faraón: Hoy me acuerdo de mis faltas.
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 Cuando Faraón se enfureció contra sus esclavos, y me puso bajo custodia en la casa del capitán de la guardia, a mí y al jefe de los panaderos,
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 en una misma noche él y yo tuvimos un sueño. Cada uno tuvo un sueño con un sentido peculiar.
While we were there, one night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.
12 Estaba allí con nosotros un joven hebreo, esclavo del capitán de la guardia, y se lo contamos. Él nos interpretó nuestros sueños. A cada uno interpretó según su sueño.
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 Aconteció que tal como nos lo interpretó, así sucedió. Yo fui restablecido en mi puesto, pero el otro fue colgado.
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 Entonces Faraón mandó llamar a José. Lo sacaron apresuradamente de la cárcel, se afeitó, mudó sus ropas y acudió a Faraón.
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 Y Faraón dijo a José: Tuve un sueño, y no hay quien lo interprete. Pero oí decir de ti que cuando escuchas un sueño puedes interpretarlo.
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 José respondió a Faraón: No es mérito mío. ʼElohim dará a Faraón respuesta satisfactoria.
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 Entonces Faraón habló a José: En mi sueño yo estaba en pie a la orilla del Nilo,
The king said to Joseph, “In my first dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile [River].
18 y del Nilo subían siete vacas gordas y hermosas y que apacentaban en el juncal.
Suddenly seven healthy fat cows came up out of the river, and they started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.
19 Inmediatamente después de ellas subían del Nilo otras siete vacas pobres, feas y flacas como yo no había visto en toda la tierra de Egipto.
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 Las vacas flacas y feas devoraron a las siete primeras vacas gordas.
The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 Éstas entraban en su interior, pero no se notaba que habían entrado en ellas, porque su apariencia era tan fea como antes. Y desperté.
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 Después vi en mi sueño que siete espigas gruesas y hermosas brotaban de un mismo tallo.
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 Pero vi que siete espigas marchitas, delgadas y resecas por el viento del este brotaban después de ellas,
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 y las espigas delgadas devoraban a las siete espigas hermosas. Lo narré a los hechiceros, pero no hay quien me lo interprete.
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 Entonces José dijo a Faraón: El sueño de Faraón es uno solo. ʼElohim anunció a Faraón lo que Él va a hacer.
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 Las siete vacas hermosas son siete años, y las espigas hermosas son siete años. El sueño es uno solo.
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 Las siete vacas flacas y feas que subieron tras las primeras son también siete años, y las siete espigas delgadas y resecas por el viento del este son siete años de hambruna.
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 El asunto es como respondí a Faraón: ʼElohim mostró a Faraón lo que Él está a punto de hacer.
It will happen just as I have told you, because God has revealed to you what he is about to do.
29 Así que vienen siete años de gran abundancia en toda la tierra de Egipto.
There will be seven years in which there will be plenty of food throughout the land of Egypt,
30 Después de ellos vendrán siete años de hambruna, y toda la abundancia será olvidada en la tierra de Egipto. La hambruna consumirá la tierra,
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 y la abundancia será olvidada en la tierra a causa de aquella hambruna que le seguirá, porque será muy severa.
The people will forget how plentiful food was previously, because the famine will be very terrible.
32 El hecho de que el sueño de Faraón sucedió dos veces significa que el asunto está determinado por ʼElohim, y ʼElohim se apresura a ejecutarlo.
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 Por tanto, provea ahora Faraón un hombre prudente y sabio, y dele autoridad sobre la tierra de Egipto.
“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 Haga Faraón esto: Designe funcionarios sobre la tierra para que recauden la quinta parte del producto de la tierra de Egipto en los siete años de abundancia,
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 para que ellos recojan toda la provisión de estos buenos años que vienen, almacenen el grano bajo la supervisión de Faraón y lo guarden en las ciudades para sustento.
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 Esté esta provisión en depósito para el país para los siete años de hambruna que habrá en la tierra de Egipto, y el país no perecerá durante la hambruna.
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 La propuesta le pareció bien a Faraón y a todos sus esclavos.
The king and his officials thought that this would be a good plan.
38 Faraón dijo a sus esclavos: ¿Hallaremos otro varón como éste, en quien esté el Espíritu de ʼElohim?
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 Faraón dijo a José: Puesto que ʼElohim te explicó todo esto, no hay entendido ni sabio como tú.
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 Tú mismo estarás a cargo de mi casa, y por tu palabra se gobernará todo mi pueblo. Solo en el trono seré yo más grande que tú.
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 Faraón dijo a José: Mira, te doy autoridad sobre toda la tierra de Egipto.
Then the king said to Joseph, “I am now putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
42 Faraón se quitó el anillo de su mano y lo puso en la mano de José. Lo vistió con ropas de lino fino y le impuso un collar de oro alrededor de su cuello.
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 Lo hizo subir en su segunda carroza y pregonaron delante de él: ¡Arrodíllense! Y le dio autoridad sobre toda la tierra de Egipto.
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 Faraón dijo a José: Yo soy Faraón, pero sin tu autorización nadie levantará su mano ni su pie en toda la tierra de Egipto.
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 Faraón llamó a José Zafnat-panea, y le dio como esposa a Asenat, hija de Potifera, sacerdote de On. Entonces José salió a recorrer toda la tierra de Egipto.
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 José tenía 30 años cuando compareció ante Faraón, rey de Egipto. Luego José se retiró de la presencia de Faraón y recorrió toda la tierra de Egipto.
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 En los siete años de abundancia, la tierra produjo a montones.
During the next seven years, the land produced abundant crops, so there was plenty of food.
48 Almacenó todo el alimento que hubo de los siete años de abundancia en la tierra de Egipto. Luego puso el alimento en las ciudades y depositó en ellas la producción del campo de sus alrededores.
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 José también almacenó grano como la arena del mar, mucho en extremo, hasta no poderse contar, pues era incalculable.
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 Antes que llegara el primer año de la hambruna, le nacieron a José dos hijos, los cuales Asenat, hija de Potifera, sacerdote de On, le dio a luz.
Before the seven years of famine started, Joseph’s wife Asenath gave birth to two sons.
51 José llamó al primogénito Manasés, porque dijo: ʼElohim me hizo olvidar todo mi sufrimiento y toda la casa de mi padre.
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 Llamó al segundo Efraín, porque dijo: ʼElohim me hizo fructífero en la tierra de mi aflicción.
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 Se acabaron los siete años de abundancia que hubo en la tierra de Egipto.
Finally the seven years in which there was plenty of food ended.
54 Comenzaron los siete años de hambruna, como dijo José. Hubo hambruna en todos los países, pero en toda la tierra de Egipto había pan.
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 Cuando se sintió la hambruna en toda la tierra de Egipto, el pueblo clamó a Faraón por pan. Y Faraón dijo a todo Egipto: Vayan a José y hagan lo que él les diga.
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 La hambruna estaba por toda la extensión del país. Entonces José abrió todos los graneros, y vendió a los egipcios, pues la hambruna era severa en la tierra de Egipto.
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 También llegaban de toda la tierra a Egipto para comprar grano a José, porque la hambruna aumentaba en toda la tierra.
And people from many [HYP] nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere [HYP].
