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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.
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Yô-sep Rláu Mpáu
1Yacốp ỡt tâng cruang Cana-an, la ntốq mpoaq án khoiq ỡt tễ nhũang.
2Nâi la atỡng tễ tŏ́ng toiq Yacốp.
Bo Yô-sep bữn muoi chít tapul cumo, án bán cữu parnơi cớp sễm ai án. Yô-sep táq ranáq parnơi cớp con samiang Bil-ha cớp Sil-pa, lacuoi mpoaq án. Án cauq sễm ai án tễ ranáq alới táq sâuq chóq mpoaq alới.
3Cỗ Yô-sep la con I-sarel bữn bo án khoiq thâu chơ, ngkíq I-sarel ayooq Yô-sep hỡn tễ nheq con samiang án canŏ́h. Yuaq ngkíq, I-sarel ớn noau táq muoi ploah au tuar nêuq lứq yỗn Yô-sep.
4Máh ai Yô-sep dáng mpoaq alới ayooq Yô-sep hỡn tễ alới. Ngkíq alới kêt lứq Yô-sep, cớp alới tỡ rơi pai muoi ŏ́c o ntrớu chóq Yô-sep.
5Bữn muoi sadâu Yô-sep rláu mpáu. Toâq án ruaih yỗn máh ai án tamứng tễ parnáu án rláu mpáu, alới kêt án hỡn tễ nhũang ễn.
6Yô-sep pai neq: “Cứq yoc anhia tamứng ŏ́c cứq mpáu.
7Nheq tữh hái boq saro tâng sarái, ma bo ki toâp boq saro cứq ayứng tanoang tháng. Ma boq saro anhia rôm nheq mpễr boq saro cứq, cớp boq saro anhia cucốh cucũoi boq saro cứq.”
8Moâm án pai ngkíq, máh mu ai án blớh loah neq: “Nŏ́q mới chanchớm, mới cỡt sốt tỗp hếq tỡ? Cớp cỡt puo tỗp hếq tỡ?”
Ngkíq alới kêt án hỡn tễ nhũang ễn, cỗ tian tễ parnáu án rláu mpáu, cớp tễ santoiq án pai.
9Bữn muoi trỗ ễn Yô-sep rláu mpáu sĩa, cớp án atỡng yỗn máh ai án tamứng tễ parnáu án rláu mpáu. Án pai neq: “Cứq mpáu sĩa; sễq anhia tamứng. Bữn moat mandang, rliang casâi, cớp muoi chít la muoi ŏ́c mantỗr; chơ nheq máh ramứh ki cucốh cucũoi cứq.”
10Moâm Yô-sep sarŏh parnáu yỗn máh ai án tamứng, án atỡng yỗn mpoaq án dáng tê tễ ramứh ki. Mpoaq án nhôp, cớp blớh án neq: “Ntrớu ma liaq lứq mới mpáu? Nŏ́q mới chanchớm cứq cớp mpiq mới, dếh máh ai mới, la cucốh cucũoi choâng moat mới tỡ?”
11Ngkíq máh ai Yô-sep tỡ ễq hữm tháng án; ma Yacốp cayớm dŏq tễ máh ŏ́c nâi tâng mứt.
Máh Ai Yô-sep Chếq Chíq Án
12Bữn muoi tangái máh ai Yô-sep pỡq bán tỗp cữu mpoaq alới tâng ntốq Se-kem.
13I-sarel atỡng Yô-sep neq: “Máh ai mới bán tỗp cữu pỡ Se-kem. Sanua mới pỡq chu alới.”
Yô-sep ta‑ỡi neq: “Ơq! Cứq pỡq.”
14Chơ Yacốp ớn Yô-sep ễn neq: “Cứq yoc mới pỡq nhêng máh ai mới, alới bữn bán sũan ma tỡ bữn. Cớp tỗp cữu plot-plál ma tỡ bữn. Moâm ki, mới chu atỡng loah cứq.”
Chơ Yacốp ớn Yô-sep loŏh tễ avúng Hep-rôn, pỡq pỡ Se-kem.
15Ỡt tâng Se-kem bữn muoi noaq cũai samiang ramóh Yô-sep pỡq chu nâi pỡq chu ki tâng ruang, án blớh Yô-sep neq: “Ntrớu mới chuaq?”
16Yô-sep ta‑ỡi: “Cứq chuaq máh ai cứq. Sễq mới atỡng cứq, pỡ ntốq aléq alới bán cữu.”
17Samiang ki ta‑ỡi neq: “Alới khoiq loŏh chơ tễ ntốq nâi. Cứq sâng alới pai neq: ‘Hâi! Hái pỡq pỡ Dô-than ễn.’”
Ngkíq Yô-sep puai cớp tamóh alới pỡ ntốq Dô-than.
18Toâq máh ai án hữm Yô-sep noâng tễ yơng, alới sarhống ễ táq nŏ́q ma bữn cachĩt chíq Yô-sep.
19Manoaq atỡng manoaq neq: “Án ca dốq rláu mpáu toâq pỡ nâi chơ.
20Hâi! Hái cachĩt chíq án cớp voang án asễng tâng hŏ́ng loang, chơ hái pai neq: ‘Bữn muoi lám charán cáp án.’ Chơ hái bữn dáng án rláu mpáu cỡt kia ma tỡ bữn.”
21Toâq Ruben sâng santoiq ki, án ễ chuai Yô-sep yỗn vớt tễ atĩ ai. Chơ án pai neq: “Hái chỗi cachĩt án.”
22Ruben atỡng ễn neq: “Chỗi yỗn aham loŏh. Ma hái apŏ́ng chíq án tâng hŏ́ng loang tâng ntốq aiq nâi. Ma anhia chỗi táq bớc chũl ntrớu tỗ án.”
Ruben pai ngkíq, yuaq án ễ chuai Yô-sep yỗn chu loah pỡ mpoaq alới.
23Tữ Yô-sep toâq pỡ ai án, máh ai án pũar tũot chíq au tuar nêuq sa‑ữi santứm ca án sớp.
24Moâm ki, alới cỗp án cớp apŏ́ng tâng hŏ́ng loang. Ma hŏ́ng ki khỗ, ŏ́q dỡq.
25Moâm ki, máh ai án tacu cha dỗi. Chơ alới tapoang nhêng, hữm muoi tỗp cũai It-ma-el toâq tễ vil Ki-liat. Cũai ki pỡq chếq chỡng; charán lac‑da alới ki patiang trâm cớp crơng phuom tễ siet aluang pỡq chu cruang Ê-yip-tô.
26Yuda blớh máh a‑ễm án neq: “Khân hái cachĩt, chơ cutooq aham án, bữn kia ntrớu?
27Sanua hái chếq chíq án yỗn cũai It-ma-el, ma atĩ hái chỗi toân toah ntrớu án, cỗ án la lứq a‑ễm hái cỡt muoi sâiq muoi aham cớp hái.”
Chơ alới táq ariang santoiq Yuda pai.
28Moâm ki, bữn muoi tỗp cũai Madian pỡq pha bân ntốq ki. Ngkíq máh ai Yô-sep âc achỗn án tễ hŏ́ng loang ki, chơ chếq án yỗn cũai It-ma-el. Kia Yô-sep la bar chít ŏ́c práq panê. Chơ cũai ki dững Yô-sep chu cruang Ê-yip-tô.
29Tữ Ruben chu loah pỡ hŏ́ng loang ki, án tỡ bữn hữm noâng Yô-sep. Chơ án háq tampâc án bữm, táq tếc án sâng ngua.
30Chơ án píh chu loah pỡ máh a‑ễm, cớp atỡng neq: “Yô-sep khoiq pứt! Nŏ́q cứq ễ táq sanua?”
31Ma máh ai Yô-sep khoiq ĩt chơ au tuar Yô-sep, cớp alới cachĩt muoi lám mbễq tangcáh. Moâm ki alới yớm au tuar Yô-sep tâng aham mbễq.
32Chơ alới cơiq au tuar ki yỗn mpoaq alới, cớp pai neq: “Hếq tamóh au tuar nâi. Sễq mpoaq nhêng. Au tuar nâi la au con mpoaq, ma tỡ cỡn?”
33Ngkíq Yacốp nhêng, cớp án sacoal. Chơ án nhiam cớp pai neq: “Au tuar nâi la au con samiang cứq; charán pla khoiq cáp cha sâiq con cứq chơ. Yô-sep khoiq abuoiq nheq chơ charán pla táq.”
34Chơ Yacốp háq chíq tampâc án, cớp án tâc tampâc tanúh, cỗ pứt chíq con án. Ngkíq Yacốp tanúh con samiang án sa‑ữi tangái.
35Nheq tữh con samiang cớp con mansễm án toâq pỡ án, yoc ễ aliam án. Ma án tỡ yỗn alới aliam; án pai neq: “Cứq dŏq ŏ́c ngua nâi toau noau tứp cứq, cớp raviei cứq ỡt cớp con cứq.”
Yacốp nhiam níc sâng, yuaq con án khoiq cuchĩt.
36Ma bo ki, cũai Madian chếq to loah Yô-sep yỗn Phô-ti-pha, cũai tâng cruang Ê-yip-tô. Cũai ki la ranễng cũai sốt tahan kĩaq puo cruang Ê-yip-tô.