創世記 40
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
約瑟解夢
40 後來，埃及王的侍酒總管和膳食總管得罪了王， 2 王非常憤怒， 3 把他們囚禁在護衛長波提乏府內的監牢裡，也就是約瑟被囚的地方。 4 護衛長派約瑟去伺候他們。他們在監裡待了一段日子。
5 一天晚上，他們倆都做了夢，他們的夢各有不同的意思。 6 第二天早上，約瑟過來見他們神情沮喪， 7 就問：「你們今天為什麼滿面愁容？」 8 他們回答說：「我們都做了夢，可是沒有人給我們解夢。」約瑟說：「解夢的能力不是來自上帝嗎？請你們把夢告訴我。」
9 侍酒總管便把自己的夢告訴約瑟，說：「我夢見一棵葡萄樹， 10 樹上有三根枝子，枝子發芽開花，結滿了成熟的葡萄。 11 我手上拿著法老的酒杯，摘下葡萄，把汁擠在酒杯中，然後遞給法老。」 12 約瑟說：「這夢的意思是，三根枝子代表三天， 13 三天之內，法老必定釋放你，恢復你侍酒總管的職位。你仍要和從前一樣伺候法老飲酒。 14 當你再被重用的時候，請你記得恩待我，在法老面前提及我，救我出獄。 15 我是從希伯來人那裡被拐來的，無辜被囚在監。」
16 膳食總管見夢解得好，就對約瑟說：「我也做了個夢，我夢見自己頭上頂著三筐白餅， 17 最上面的一筐裡放著為法老烤製的各種食物，有鳥來吃筐內的食物。」 18 約瑟說：「這夢的意思是，三筐就是三天， 19 三天之內，法老必砍下你的頭，把你掛在木頭上，鳥要來吃你的肉。」
20 第三天是法老的生日，他宴請文武百官，把侍酒總管和膳食總管從監牢裡提出來， 21 恢復了侍酒總管的職位，讓他仍舊伺候自己飲酒， 22 卻處死了膳食總管，正應驗了約瑟的話。 23 然而，法老的侍酒總管把約瑟忘了。
Genesis 40
Living Bible
40 1-3 Some time later it so happened that the king of Egypt became angry with both his chief baker and his chief butler, so he jailed them both in the prison where Joseph was, in the castle of Potiphar, the captain of the guard, who was the chief executioner. 4 They remained under arrest there for quite some time, and Potiphar assigned Joseph to wait on them. 5 One night each of them had a dream. 6 The next morning Joseph noticed that they looked dejected and sad.
7 “What in the world is the matter?” he asked.
8 And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but there is no one here to tell us what they mean.”
“Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Tell me what you saw.”
9-10 The butler told his dream first. “In my dream,” he said, “I saw a vine with three branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon there were clusters of ripe grapes. 11 I was holding Pharaoh’s wine cup in my hand, so I took the grapes and squeezed the juice into it, and gave it to him to drink.”
12 “I know what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three branches mean three days! 13 Within three days Pharaoh is going to take you out of prison and give you back your job again as his chief butler. 14 And please have some pity on me when you are back in his favor, and mention me to Pharaoh, and ask him to let me out of here. 15 For I was kidnapped from my homeland among the Hebrews, and now this—here I am in jail when I did nothing to deserve it.”
16 When the chief baker saw that the first dream had such a good meaning, he told his dream to Joseph, too.
“In my dream,” he said, “there were three baskets of pastries on my head. 17 In the top basket were all kinds of bakery goods for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them.”
18-19 “The three baskets mean three days,” Joseph told him. “Three days from now Pharaoh will take off your head and impale your body on a pole, and the birds will come and pick off your flesh!”
20 Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he held a party for all of his officials and household staff. He sent for his chief butler and chief baker, and they were brought to him from the prison. 21 Then he restored the chief butler to his former position; 22 but he sentenced the chief baker to be impaled, just as Joseph had predicted. 23 Pharaoh’s wine taster, however, promptly forgot all about Joseph, never giving him a thought.
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