創世記 37
1 雅各伯定居在他父親作客的客納罕地方。
Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
2 以下是雅各伯的小史。若瑟十七歲時，與哥哥們一同放羊。他尚年幼，常與自己的父親的妻子彼耳哈和齊耳帕的兒子們在一起。他不斷將他們作的惡事報告給父親。
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, tended the flock with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report about them to their father.
3 以色列愛若瑟超過其他的兒子，因為是他年老生的，並給他做了一件彩色長衫。
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he had been born to him in his old age. And he made a long ornamented robe for him.
4 他的哥哥們見父親愛他勝過其餘的兒子，就忌恨他，不能與他和氣交談。
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak a kind word to him.
5 若瑟作了一夢，講給哥哥們聽，因此他們越發惱恨他。
Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
6 他對他們說：「請聽我作的夢：
He said to them, "Please listen to this dream I had:
7 我夢見我們同在田間捆麥子，忽然我的麥捆站起來，你們的麥捆圍住我的麥捆下拜。」
And look, we were binding sheaves in the field, and look, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And look, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."
8 他哥哥們對他說：「難道你要作我們的君王﹖或者統治我們﹖」他們為了這夢和這番話，越發惱恨他。
Then his brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed rule over us?" So they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said.
9 他又作了一夢，也告訴他哥哥們說：「我又作了一夢：夢見太陽和月亮並一顆星辰向我下拜。」
And he had another dream, and told it to his father and to his brothers, and said, "Look, I had yet another dream, and look, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
10 當他給父親和哥哥們講說這夢時，他父親就責斥他說：「你作的是什麼夢﹖難道我和你母親以及你的兄弟，都要來向你叩首至地﹖」
When he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you had? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come and bow down to the ground in front of you?"
11 他兄弟們都忌恨他；他父親卻將這事存在心裏。
His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept thinking about the matter.
12 若瑟的哥哥們去了舍根，放他們父親的羊。
Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.
13 以色列對若瑟說：「你哥哥們不是在舍根放羊麼﹖來，我打發你去看看他們。」他回答說：「我在這裏。」
And Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers pasturing the flock near Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said to him, "I am ready."
14 以色列對他說：「你去看看你哥哥們是否平安，羊群怎樣；然後回來告訴我。」以色列便打發他由赫貝龍山谷前去；他到了舍根。
So he said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flock, and report back to me." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15 有一個人見他在田間遊蕩，那人就問他說：「你尋找什麼﹖」
And a man found him, and look, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
16 他答說：「我尋找我的哥哥；請告訴我：他們在那裏放羊﹖」
He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock."
17 那人答說：「他們已離開了這裏；我聽見他們說：我們到多堂去。」於是若瑟便去追尋他的哥哥，在多堂找到了。
The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
18 他們老遠就看見了他；在他尚未近以前，就已決定要謀殺他。
Now they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them they plotted against him to kill him.
19 他們彼此說：「看，那作夢的人來了!
And they said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is coming.
20 我們殺掉他，將他拋在一口井裏，說是猛獸吃了。看他的夢還有什麼用﹖」
Come now, and let's kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns, and we will say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we will see what will become of his dreams."
21 勒烏本聽了，就設法由他們手中救他，遂說：「我們不要害他! 」
But Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hands, and said, "Let's not take his life."
22 勒烏本又對他們說：「你們不要流血；只將他丟在這曠野的井裏，不可下手害他。」他的意思是想由他們手中救出他來，還給父親。
Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"—that he might deliver him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.
23 若瑟一來到他哥哥們那裏，他們就脫去了他穿的那件彩色長衣，抓住他，把他丟在井裏；
It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his robe, the long ornamented robe that he was wearing.
24 那井是空的，裏面沒有水。
And they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the pit was empty. There was no water in it.)
25 他們坐下吃飯時，舉目看見一隊由基肋阿得來的依市瑪耳人；他們的駱駝滿載樹膠、香液和香料，要下到埃及去。
Then they sat down to eat a meal. And they looked up, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
26 猶大遂對兄弟們說：「殺害我們的弟弟，隱瞞他的血，究竟有什麼益處﹖
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
27 不如將他賣給依市瑪耳人，免得對他下毒手，因為他究竟是我們的兄弟，是我們的骨肉。」兄弟們聽從了他的意見。
Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our flesh." And his brothers agreed.
28 米淂楊的商人經過那裏時，他們便從井中拉出若瑟來，以二十塊銀錢賣給了依市瑪耳人；他們便將若瑟帶到埃及去了。
So the Midianites merchants passed by, and they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the cistern, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.
29 勒烏本回到井邊，不見若瑟在井內，遂撕裂了自己的衣服，
And Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph wasn't in the cistern; and he tore his clothes.
30 回到兄弟們那裏喊說：「孩子不見了! 我可往那裏去呢﹖」
He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone. Now, what am I to do?"
31 他們於是拿了若瑟的長衣，殺了一隻公山羊，將長衣浸在血裏；
They took Joseph's robe and killed a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
32 然後派人將那件彩色的長衣送給他們的父親說：「這是我們尋得的，請你仔細看看，是不是你兒子的長衣﹖」
And they sent the long ornamented robe and they brought it to their father, and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your son's robe or not."
33 雅各伯仔細一看，就喊說：「是我兒子的長衣；猛獸將他吃了。若瑟被撕裂了，被撕裂了! 」
And he recognized it, and said, "It is my son's robe. A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
34 雅各伯遂撕裂了自己的衣服，腰間圍上麻衣，為自己的兒子悲哀了多日。
Then Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Indeed, I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." And his father wept for him. (Sheol h7585)
36 米德楊人後在在埃及將若瑟賣給了法郎的內臣，衛隊長普提法爾。
Now the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
