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创世记 37
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约瑟和他的兄弟

37 雅各住在他父亲寄居的地方，就是迦南地。 2 雅各的历史记在下面：约瑟十七岁的时候，与他的哥哥们一同牧羊。他是个孩童，与他父亲的妾，辟拉和悉帕的众子，常在一起。约瑟把他们的恶行报告给父亲。 3 以色列爱约瑟过于爱其他的儿子，因为约瑟是他年老时生的。他给约瑟做了一件彩色长衣。 4 约瑟的哥哥们见父亲爱约瑟过于爱他们，就恨约瑟，不能与他和和气气地说话。

约瑟的梦

5 约瑟作了一个梦，把梦告诉哥哥们，他们就越发恨他。 6 约瑟对他们说：“请听我所作的这个梦： 7 我们正在田间捆麦子，我的麦捆忽然站立起来，你们的麦捆都来围着我的下拜。” 8 他的哥哥们对他说：“你真的要作我们的王吗？真的要管辖我们吗？”他们就为了约瑟的梦和他的话，越发恨他。 9 后来约瑟又作了一个梦，也把梦向哥哥们述说了。他说：“我又作了一个梦，我梦见太阳、月亮和十一颗星向我下拜。” 10 约瑟把梦向他父亲和哥哥们述说了，他父亲就斥责他，说：“你所作的这梦是甚么梦呢？我和你母亲，以及你的兄弟，真的要来俯伏在地向你下拜吗？” 11 他哥哥们都嫉妒他，他父亲却把这事记在心里。

约瑟被卖到埃及

12 约瑟的哥哥们去了示剑，牧放他们父亲的羊群。 13 以色列对约瑟说：“你的哥哥们不是在示剑牧放羊群吗？来吧，我要派你到他们那里去。”约瑟回答他：“我在这里。” 14 以色列对他说：“你去看看你的哥哥们是不是平安，羊群是不是平安，就回来告诉我。”于是打发他离开希伯仑谷，他就到示剑去了。 15 有人遇见约瑟在田间迷了路，就问他说：“你找甚么？” 16 他回答：“我正在找我的哥哥们，请你告诉我他们在哪里牧放羊群。” 17 那人说：“他们已经离开了这里；我听见他们说：‘我们要到多坍去。’”于是约瑟去追寻哥哥们，结果在多坍找到了他们。

18 他们远远就看见了他；趁他还没有走近，大家就谋害他，要把他杀死。 19 他们彼此说：“看哪，那作梦的人来了。 20 来吧，我们把他杀了，丢在一个枯井里，就说有猛兽把他吃了。我们要看看他的梦将来要怎么样。” 21 流本听见了，要救约瑟脱离他们的手。他说：“我们不可取他的性命。” 22 流本又对他们说：“不可流他的血，可以把他丢在这旷野的枯井里，不可下手害他。”流本的意思是要救他脱离他们的手，把他带回去给他的父亲。 23 约瑟到了哥哥们那里，他们就脱去他的外衣，就是他穿在身上的那件彩衣。 24 他们拿住约瑟，把他丢在枯井里。那井是空的，里面没有水。

25 他们坐下吃饭，举目观看，见有一群以实玛利人从基列来。他们的骆驼载着香料、乳香和没药，要带下埃及去。 26 犹大对他的众兄弟说：“我们杀了我们的兄弟，把他的血隐藏起来，究竟有甚么益处呢？ 27 我们不如把他卖给以实玛利人，不要下手害他，因为他是我们的兄弟，我们的骨肉。”众兄弟就听从了他。 28 有些米甸的商人经过那里，约瑟的哥哥们就把约瑟从枯井里拉上来，以二十块银子把他卖给以实玛利人。以实玛利人就把约瑟带到埃及去了。

29 流本回到枯井那里，见约瑟不在井里，就撕裂自己的衣服。 30 他回到兄弟们那里去，说：“孩子不见了，我可到哪里去呢？” 31 于是，他们宰了一只公山羊，把约瑟的长衣蘸在血里； 32 然后打发人把彩衣送到他们父亲那里，说：“这是我们找到的。请你认一认，是你儿子的长衣不是？” 33 他认出这件长衣，就说：“是我儿子的长衣，有猛兽把他吃了。约瑟真的被撕碎了。” 34 雅各就撕裂自己的衣服，腰束麻布，为他儿子哀悼了很多日子。 35 他所有的儿女都起来安慰他，他却不肯接受他们的安慰，说：“我要悲悲哀哀地下到阴间，到我的儿子那里去。”约瑟的父亲就为他哀哭。 36 米甸人后来把约瑟卖到埃及去，卖给法老的一个臣宰，军长波提乏。

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Genesis 37
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God’s promises are not exclusive. As Isaac’s son, Esau becomes great in the land of Seir, a land to the south and east of the Dead Sea. He has sons and daughters, many of whom go on to become tribal chiefs and influential leaders among the people known as the Edomites. But the story now returns to Jacob, for he has a special place in God’s plan.

37 Jacob ended up settling in the land where his father had lived as a foreigner for many years—in the land of Canaan. 2 Here now is the story of Jacob and his family:

Joseph, when he was a young man of 17, often shepherded the flocks along with his brothers. One day as he was with Bilhah’s and Zilpah’s sons (his half-brothers), he decided to report back to their father about things they were doing wrong. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other children because he came along when he was an old man. So Israel presented Joseph with a special[a] robe he had made for him—a spectacularly colorful robe with long sleeves in it. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than the rest, they grew to hate him and couldn’t find it in themselves to speak to him without resentment or argument.

5 One day Joseph had a dream. When he told the dream to his brothers, they hated him even more.

Joseph: 6 Please listen to this dream I had! 7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose and stood up, and then your sheaves all gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.

Joseph’s Brothers (annoyed): 8 Are you serious? You think you are somehow destined to reign over us? You think you are going to be our king?

This dream and what he told them about it made them hate him even more.

9 But Joseph had another dream, and he made the mistake of telling them about this dream too.

Joseph: Listen! I’ve had another dream: I saw the sun, the moon, and 11 stars bowing down to me.

10 When he told this dream to his father and brothers, even his father scolded him.

Israel: What kind of dream is this? Do you actually think your mother and I and your brothers are going to bow down before you?

11 Joseph’s brothers had become extremely jealous of him. But his father—though he scolded Joseph—kept this dream in the back of his mind.

12 About this time, Joseph’s brothers went north toward Shechem in search of better pasture for their father’s flocks.

Israel (to Joseph): 13 Aren’t your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come on then, I will send you out to them to see how they are doing.

Joseph: I’m ready, Father.

Israel: 14 Get going then. See if they’re doing all right, and make sure the flocks are well. When you get back, give me a report.

With that, Israel sent Joseph out to the valley of Hebron. When he came to the area around Shechem, 15 a man found him wandering around in a field. The man asked him what he was looking for.

Joseph: 16 I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are pasturing our flock.

Man: 17 They’ve already gone. I heard them say they were going to Dothan.

So Joseph hurried off and followed his brothers to Dothan.

18 They saw him coming even though he was still a long way off. Before he was near enough to hear them, they conspired to kill him.

Joseph’s brothers are tired of his arrogant pretense. Each and every one of them has a bill of complaint against Joseph.

Joseph’s Brothers (to each other): 19 Oh, here comes the great dreamer. 20 Let’s kill him and throw his body into one of the pits. Then we can tell everyone a wild animal killed and devoured him. We’ll see then what becomes of his stupid dreams.

21 When Reuben heard the plan, he tried to help Joseph.

Reuben: Let’s not kill him. 22 We don’t need to shed any blood to be free of him. Let’s just toss him into some pit here in the wilderness. We don’t need to lay a hand on him.

Reuben thought perhaps he could secretly come back later and get Joseph out of the pit and take him home to their father before any more harm came to him.

The brothers agreed. 23 When Joseph arrived, they ripped his robe off of him—the fancy, colorful[b] robe he always wore that his father had made for him, 24 and they threw him into the pit. Now this pit happened to be an empty cistern; there was no water in it.

25 Then they sat down to eat. Soon they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelite traders approaching from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with gum, balm, and a fragrant resin; and they were on their way down to Egypt with their goods.

Judah (to his brothers): 26 What profit will it be for us if we just kill our brother and conceal the crime? 27 Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites instead. We won’t have to lay a hand on him then. He is, after all, our brother, our own flesh and blood.

All of the brothers agreed. 28 As the Midianite traders were passing by, they brought Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for about eight ounces of silver, the usual price of young male slaves. The traders set off with Joseph in the direction of Egypt.

29 Now Reuben had not been around when the caravan came by, so when Reuben came back to the cistern later and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothing in agony and despair. 30 He went back to his brothers.

Reuben: The boy is gone. What do I do now? What am I supposed to tell Father?

As the oldest, Reuben is responsible for what happens to Joseph. Does he dare go home and face his father? After sleeping with his father’s concubine, he has little chance now of being confirmed as Israel’s firstborn.

31-32 The brothers took Joseph’s fancy, colorful robe, slaughtered a male goat, and dipped it in the blood. Then they took the special[c] robe to their father.

Joseph’s Brothers: We found this, Father. Tell us if you think this is Joseph’s robe.

Israel (recognizing the robe): 33 This is my son’s robe! A wild animal must have killed and eaten him. Joseph is without a doubt torn to shreds!

34 Then Jacob wailed in agony and tore his clothes with the depth of emotional pain only a father could feel upon losing a child. He dressed in sackcloth and mourned his son for a long time. 35 All of his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted.

Israel: No, I will go to the grave grieving for my son.

Israel is inconsolable. His grief over his son transcends even death itself.

This is how deeply Joseph’s father grieved for him. 36 Meanwhile, the Midianites arrived in Egypt and sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officers and the captain of the guard.

Footnotes

  1. 37:3 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Greek and Latin manuscripts read, “many-colored”; similar Aramaic words mean, “long-sleeved.”
  2. 37:23 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  3. 37:31–32 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
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Genesis 37
BasisBijbel

Jozef en zijn broers

37 Maar Jakob woonde in het land waar zijn vader ook als vreemdeling had gewoond, in Kanaän. 2 Dit is de geschiedenis van Jakob en zijn familie.

Toen Jozef 17 jaar was (hij was dus nog jong) ging hij altijd met zijn broers de schapen hoeden. Die broers waren de zonen van Bilha en Zilpa, de bijvrouwen van zijn vader. En Jozef bracht zijn vader slechte berichten over zijn broers.

3 Israël hield meer van Jozef dan van al zijn andere zonen, omdat Jozef geboren was toen Israël al oud was. Daarom gaf hij hem een mooie mantel met meerdere kleuren. 4 Toen zijn broers zagen dat hun vader meer van Jozef hield dan van hen, haatten ze hem. Ze konden niet meer vriendelijk tegen hem doen.

De dromen van Jozef

5 Op een keer had Jozef een droom. Hij vertelde die droom aan zijn broers. Toen haatten ze hem nog meer. 6 Want hij vertelde: "Luister eens naar wat ik heb gedroomd! 7 We waren in het veld bezig om het graan tot bossen te binden. Toen ging mijn bos graan overeind staan en blééf overeind staan. En die van jullie gingen er omheen staan en bogen voor míjn bos." 8 Toen zeiden zijn broers tegen hem: "Wil je soms koning over ons zijn? Wil je soms over ons heersen?" En ze haatten hem nog meer, vanwege die droom en om wat hij had gezegd.

9 Hij kreeg later weer een droom, die hij ook aan zijn broers vertelde. Hij zei: "Ik heb nóg een droom gehad. De zon, de maan en elf sterren bogen voor mij." 10 Toen hij dit aan zijn vader en zijn broers vertelde, zei zijn vader streng tegen hem: "Wat is dat nou voor een droom! Denk je soms dat ik, je moeder en je broers voor je zullen buigen?" 11 Zijn broers waren jaloers op hem, maar zijn vader dacht er nog verder over na.

Jozef bezoekt zijn broers

12 Op een keer waren zijn broers naar Sichem vertrokken om daar de schapen te hoeden. 13 Toen zei Israël tegen Jozef: "Je broers zijn bij Sichem de schapen aan het hoeden. Ik wil dat jij naar hen toe gaat." Jozef zei tegen hem: "Dat is goed." 14 Israël zei tegen hem: "Ga jij eens kijken hoe het met je broers en de schapen gaat. Kom dan terug om het mij te vertellen." En hij liet hem uit het dal van Hebron vertrekken.

Jozef kwam bij Sichem. 15 Toen hij daar in het veld rondzwierf, kwam er een man naar hem toe. Hij vroeg Jozef: "Wat zoek je?" 16 Jozef antwoordde: "Ik zoek mijn broers. Weet je ook waar ze hun schapen aan het hoeden zijn?" 17 De man zei: "Ze zijn hier vertrokken. Ik heb hen horen zeggen dat ze naar Dotan wilden gaan." Toen ging Jozef zijn broers achterna en vond hen inderdaad in Dotan.

Jozef wordt als slaaf verkocht

18 Ze zagen hem al van ver aankomen. Maar voordat hij bij hen was, bedachten ze een plan om hem te doden. 19 Ze zeiden tegen elkaar: "Daar komt die meesterdromer. 20 Laten we hem vermoorden en in één van de putten gooien. We zullen zeggen dat een wild dier hem heeft opgegeten. Dan zullen we eens zien wat er van zijn dromen terechtkomt." 21 Toen Ruben dit hoorde, wilde hij Jozef redden. Hij zei: "Laten we hem niet doden. 22 Jullie mogen geen bloed vergieten. Gooi hem in deze put in de woestijn, maar dood hem niet." Want hij was van plan hem te redden en naar zijn vader terug te brengen.

23 Toen Jozef bij zijn broers kwam, rukten ze hem de mooie gekleurde mantel af die hij aan had. 24 Ze grepen hem en gooiden hem in de put. Die was leeg: er stond geen water in. 25 Daarna gingen ze zitten eten. Toen ze opkeken, zagen ze een karavaan van Ismaëlieten aankomen.[a] Hun kamelen droegen specerijen, balsemhars en mirre.[b] De karavaan was op weg van Gilead naar Egypte. 26 Juda zei tegen zijn broers: "Wat hebben we er aan als we onze broer doden en ergens verbergen? 27 We kunnen hem veel beter aan de Ismaëlieten verkopen! Dan doden we hem niet, want hij is tenslotte onze eigen broer." Zijn broers vonden het een goed plan. 28 Toen de handelaars uit Midian voorbij kwamen, trokken de broers Jozef uit de put en verkochten hem voor 20 zilverstukken aan de Ismaëlieten. Zij namen Jozef mee naar Egypte.

29 Toen Ruben bij de put kwam, zag hij dat Jozef daar niet meer was. 30 Hij scheurde zijn kleren als teken van verdriet, ging naar zijn broers terug en zei: "De jongen is er niet! Wat moet ik doen? Zo durf ik niet bij mijn vader te komen!" 31 Toen namen ze Jozefs mooie gekleurde mantel, slachtten een geitje en doopten de mantel in het bloed. 32 Ze lieten de mantel naar hun vader brengen met de boodschap: "Kijk eens wat we hebben gevonden. Is dat soms de mantel van uw zoon?" 33 Jakob herkende de mantel en zei: "Ja! Dat is de mantel van mijn zoon! Een wild dier heeft Jozef opgegeten!" 34 Hij scheurde zijn kleren, deed rouwkleren aan en treurde lang over zijn zoon. 35 Al zijn zonen en dochters deden hun best om hem te troosten. Maar hij wilde zich niet laten troosten. Hij zei: "Nee, ik zal blijven treuren totdat ik sterf en naar mijn zoon in het dodenrijk ga." Zo treurde zijn vader over hem.

36 De handelaars uit Midian verkochten Jozef in Egypte aan Potifar. Potifar was een dienaar aan het hof van de farao. Hij was het hoofd van de lijfwacht van de koning.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 37:25 De Ismaëlieten stammen af van Ismaël, de eerste zoon van Abraham
  2. Genesis 37:25 Balsemhars en mirre zijn soorten hars waarvan een olie gemaakt kan worden die lekker ruikt. Die olie werd bijvoorbeeld voor parfum gebruikt.
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Genesis 37
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Joseph’s Dreams

37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed,(A) the land of Canaan.(B)

2 This is the account(C) of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph,(D) a young man of seventeen,(E) was tending the flocks(F) with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah(G) and the sons of Zilpah,(H) his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report(I) about them.

3 Now Israel(J) loved Joseph more than any of his other sons,(K) because he had been born to him in his old age;(L) and he made an ornate[a] robe(M) for him.(N) 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him(O) and could not speak a kind word to him.

5 Joseph had a dream,(P) and when he told it to his brothers,(Q) they hated him all the more.(R) 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves(S) of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”(T)

8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”(U) And they hated him all the more(V) because of his dream and what he had said.

9 Then he had another dream,(W) and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars(X) were bowing down to me.”(Y)

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers,(Z) his father rebuked(AA) him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”(AB) 11 His brothers were jealous of him,(AC) but his father kept the matter in mind.(AD)

Joseph Sold by His Brothers

12 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,(AE) 13 and Israel(AF) said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem.(AG) Come, I am going to send you to them.”

“Very well,” he replied.

14 So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers(AH) and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.(AI)

When Joseph arrived at Shechem, 15 a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, “What are you looking for?”

16 He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”

17 “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.(AJ)’”

So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.(AK)

19 “Here comes that dreamer!(AL)” they said to each other. 20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns(AM) and say that a ferocious animal(AN) devoured him.(AO) Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”(AP)

21 When Reuben(AQ) heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said.(AR) 22 “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern(AS) here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.(AT)

23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe(AU) he was wearing— 24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern.(AV) The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.

25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites(AW) coming from Gilead.(AX) Their camels were loaded with spices, balm(AY) and myrrh,(AZ) and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.(BA)

26 Judah(BB) said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?(BC) 27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother,(BD) our own flesh and blood.(BE)” His brothers agreed.

28 So when the Midianite(BF) merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern(BG) and sold(BH) him for twenty shekels[b] of silver(BI) to the Ishmaelites,(BJ) who took him to Egypt.(BK)

29 When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.(BL) 30 He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?”(BM)

31 Then they got Joseph’s robe,(BN) slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.(BO) 32 They took the ornate robe(BP) back to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe.”

33 He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious animal(BQ) has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”(BR)

34 Then Jacob tore his clothes,(BS) put on sackcloth(BT) and mourned for his son many days.(BU) 35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him,(BV) but he refused to be comforted.(BW) “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son(BX) in the grave.(BY)” So his father wept for him.

36 Meanwhile, the Midianites[c](BZ) sold Joseph(CA) in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.(CB)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 37:3 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verses 23 and 32.
  2. Genesis 37:28 That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams
  3. Genesis 37:36 Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also verse 28); Masoretic Text Medanites
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