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Y-Yôsep Jêh Ri Phung Oh Nâu Păng

¹Y-Yakôb gŭ tâm n'gor mbơ̆ păng mâp gŭ jêh ƀât lât, tâm n'gor Kanaan. ²Aơ nau nkoch bri ma mpôl băl Y-Yakôb: Y-Yôsep geh jât ma pơh năm, chiă biăp ndrel ma phung nâu păng. Păng jêng bu klâu dôl dal ndăm gŭ ndrel ma phung kon bu klâu H'Bilha jêh ri H'Silpa, phung ur mbơ̆ păng. Y-Yôsep nkoch ma mbơ̆ khân păng nau mhĭk khân păng ƀư. ³Y-Israel rŏng Y-Yôsep âk lơn ma lĕ rngôch kon păng, yorlah păng jêng kon păng geh jêh păng ranh. Păng ƀư ma kon păng du blah ao jâr jong ti. ⁴Tơ lah phung nâu păng saơ mbơ̆ khân păng rŏng ma Y-Yôsep âk lơn ma lĕ rngôch phung oh nâu, khân păng tâm rmot ma Y-Yôsep jêh ri mâu dơi ngơi ueh đah Y-Yôsep ôh.
⁵Y-Yôsep geh nau mbơi, jêh ri tơ lah păng nkoch bri nau nây ma phung oh nâu păng, khân păng tâm rmot ma Y-Yôsep âk lơn. ⁶Păng lah ma phung oh nâu păng: "Khân may iăt hom nau gâp hŏ mbơi jêh. ⁷Aơ, he gŭ chăp ba tâm mir, jêh ri nchăp ba khân may gŭ dăp tring jŭm păng jêh chon mon mbah ta năp nchăp ba gâp." ⁸Phung nâu păng lah ma păng: "Ngăn lĕ may mra jêng Kôranh hên? Ngăn lĕ may mra chiă uănh hên?" Pô ri khân păng tâm rmot ma Y-Yôsep âk lơn yor nau mbơi jêh ri nau păng ngơi. ⁹Păng geh tay nau mbơl êng, jêh ri nkoch bri nau nây ma phung oh nâu păng, păng lah: "Aơ, gâp geh nau mbơi nar, khay, jêh ri jât ma nguay rplay mănh chon mon mbah ta năp gâp!" ¹⁰Păng nkoch bri nau nây ma mbơ̆ păng jêh ri ma phung oh nâu păng. Mbơ̆ păng nduyh păng, lah: "Moh nau mbơi may geh pô nây? Ngăn lĕ gâp, me may, jêh ri phung oh nâu may mra văch chon mon ta neh ta năp may?" ¹¹Phung nâu păng mô nach ma păng, ƀiălah mbơ̆ păng ndjôt prăp nau ngơi nây tâm nau mĭn păng.

Bu Tăch Y-Yôsep Tâm N'gor Êjipt

¹²Phung nâu Y-Yôsep hăn chiă biăp mbơ̆ khân păng ta ƀon Sichem. ¹³Y-Israel lah, ma Y-Yôsep: "Mâu di hĕ phung nâu may chiă biăp ta ƀon sichem? Văch hom gâp mra njuăl may ta khân păng." Y-Yôsep lah ma păng: "Aơ ta aơ gâp." ¹⁴Păng lah ma Y-Yôsep: "Hăn hom, uănh gĭt lah phung nâu may jêh ri phung biăp geh nau ueh, jêh ri sĭt mbơh ma gâp. Păng njuăl Y-Yôsep hăn tă bơh rlŭng Hêbron, jêh ri păng tât ta ƀon Sichem. ¹⁵Geh du huê bunuyh tâm mâp đah păng dôl păng hiơt trong tâm mir. Bunuyh nây ôp păng: "Moh may joi?" ¹⁶Păng plơ̆ lah: "Gâp joi phung nâu gâp. Gâp dăn ma may, lah an ma gâp, mbah ntŭk khân păng chiăp biăp." ¹⁷Bunuyh nây lah: "Khân păng du jêh bơh aơ, yorlah gâp tăng khân păng lah, hôm he ta ƀon Dôthan." Pô ri Y-Yôsep hăn joi phung nâu păng jêh ri saơ khân păng ta ƀon Dôthan. ¹⁸Phung nâu păng, saơ păng bơh ngai, jêh ri êhŏ dăch tât, phung khân păng mĭn ŭch nkhĭt lơi Y-Yôsep. ¹⁹Khân păng tâm lah ndrăng khân păng; "Aơ bunuyh mbêch mbơi, ²⁰pô ri, lŏng he, ăn he nkhĭt lơi păng, klŭp păng tâm ntu dak jêh ri he mra lah: "Du mlâm mpa bri sa jêh Păng? jêh ri he mra saơ moh nau mra tât ma nau păng mbơi." ²¹Ƀiălah tơ lah Y-Ruben saơ nau nây, păng nklaih an Y-Yôsep bơh ti phung nâu păng. Păng lah: "Lơi ta he nkhĭt păng ôh!" ²²Y-Ruben lah ma khân păng: "Lơi nkhŭt mham ôh; klŭp păng tâm ntu dak, tâm ndrêch rdah aơ, ƀiălah lơi he ƀư ma păng ôh." ²³Păng ŭch rklaih Y-Yôsep bơh ti phung nâu păng, khân păng doh ao jâr jong ti khân păng soh. ²⁴Khân păng nhŭp Y-Yôsep nklăch tâm ntu dak. Ntu nây sơh mâu geh dak ôh.
²⁵Khân păng gŭ mƀŏng ma sông sa, khân păng n'gơr măt uănh, jêh ri aơ geh du phung Ismaêl văch tă bơh n'gor Galaat, ncho seh samô rdeng ndơ ƀâu kah (mngưi), dak ƀâu kah, jêh ri dak si tăng ma n'gor Êjipt. ²⁶Y-Yuda lah ma phung oh nâu păng: "Moh khlay nkhĭt lơi oh he jêh ri pôn mham păng? ²⁷Lŏng he, tăch păng ma phung Ismaêl. Lơi he ƀư ma păng ôh, yorlah păng jêng oh he, nglay săk he nơm." Phung oh nâu păng tông nau nây. ²⁸Jêh ri phung Midian tăch rgâl rgăn. Khân păng đŏt Y-Yôsep tă bơh ntu dak jêh ri tăch păng bar jât rlay prăk ma phung Ismaêl. Phung nây ndjôt Y-Yôsep leo ta n'gor Êjipt.
²⁹Tơ lah Y-Ruben sĭt ta ntu nây jêh ri Y-Yôsep mâu gŭ ta nây ôh, păng nkhêk lơi kho ao păng. ³⁰Păng sĭt ta phung oh păng jêh ri lah: "Bu klâu dôl dal ndăm mâu hôm saơ ôh, jêh ri mbah ntŭk gâp mra hăn?" ³¹Khân păng sŏk ao jâr Y-Yôsep, nkhĭt du mlâm be nkuăng jêh ri trăm ao jâr nây tâm mham. ³²khân păng ndjôt ao jâr jong ti nây njŭm sĭt ta mbơ̆ păng, lah: "Hên saơ ndơ aơ, sek uănh hom, gĭt lah jêng ao jâr kon may?" ³³Y-Yakôb năl ao nây jêh ri lah: "Ao jâr kon gâp yơh." Geh du mlâm mpa bri sa jêh păng. Nanê̆, Y-Yôsep hêk rai jêh." ³⁴Y-Yakôb nkhêk kho ao păng jêh ri soh kpau jêh ri ndrê nglâng khĭt ma kon bu klâu păng jŏ nar. ³⁵Lĕ rngôch phung kon bu klâu păng jêh ri lĕ rngôch phung kon bu ur păng hăn văch bonh leng păng; ƀiălah păng dun nau tâm bonh nây jêh ri lah; "Mâu!" Gâp mra jŭr hăn ta Ƀon Phung Khĭt ma kon gâp ma nau ndrê nglâng." Pô ri mbơ̆ păng nhĭm ma Y-Yôsep. ³⁶Phung Midian tăch Y-Yôsep ta n'gor Êjipt ma Y-Pôtipar, Kôranh tahan phung gak.

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Joseph Dreams of Greatness

¹Now Jacob dwelt in the land ⚓where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. ²This is the history of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought a ⚓bad report of them to his father.
³Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was⚓the son of his old age. Also he ⚓made him a tunic of many colors. ⁴But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they ⚓hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
⁵Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more. ⁶So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: ⁷⚓There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.”
⁸And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
⁹Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, ⚓the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”
¹⁰So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and ⚓your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?” ¹¹And ⚓his brothers envied him, but his father ⚓kept the matter in mind.

Joseph Sold by His Brothers

¹²Then his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. ¹³And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in ⚓Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.”
So he said to him, “Here I am.”
¹⁴Then he said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of ⚓Hebron, and he went to Shechem.
¹⁵Now a certain man found him, and there he was, wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, “What are you seeking?”
¹⁶So he said, “I am seeking my brothers. ⚓Please tell me where they are feeding their flocks.”
¹⁷And the man said, “They have departed from here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in ⚓Dothan.
¹⁸Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, ⚓they conspired against him to kill him. ¹⁹Then they said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is coming! ²⁰⚓Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!”
²¹But ⚓Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.” ²²And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.
²³So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they ⚓stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. ²⁴Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
²⁵⚓And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of ⚓Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, ⚓balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt. ²⁶So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and ⚓conceal his blood? ²⁷Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and ⚓let not our hand be upon him, for he is⚓our brother and⚓our flesh.” And his brothers listened. ²⁸Then ⚓Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, ⚓and sold him to the Ishmaelites for ⚓twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
²⁹Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he ⚓tore his clothes. ³⁰And he returned to his brothers and said, “The lad ⚓is no more; and I, where shall I go?”
³¹So they took ⚓Joseph’s tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood. ³²Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said, “We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son’s tunic or not?”
³³And he recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A ⚓wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.” ³⁴Then Jacob ⚓tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and ⚓mourned for his son many days. ³⁵And all his sons and all his daughters ⚓arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “For ⚓I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.
³⁶Now ⚓the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.