Genesis 37

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 Jacob settled in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.	1 وسكن يعقوب في ارض غربة ابيه في ارض كنعان.
2 This is his family history. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flocks with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought his father bad reports about them.	2 هذه مواليد يعقوب. يوسف اذ كان ابن سبع عشرة سنة كان يرعى مع اخوته الغنم وهو غلام عند بني بلهة وبني زلفة امرأتي ابيه. واتى يوسف بنميمتهم الرديئة الى ابيهم.
3 Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long tunic.	3 واما اسرائيل فاحب يوسف اكثر من سائر بنيه لانه ابن شيخوخته. فصنع له قميصا ملوّنا.
4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, they hated him so much that they would not even greet him.	4 فلما رأى اخوته ان اباهم احبه اكثر من جميع اخوته ابغضوه ولم يستطيعوا ان يكلموه بسلام
5 Once Joseph had a dream, which he told to his brothers:	5 وحلم يوسف حلما واخبر اخوته. فازدادوا ايضا بغضا له.
6 "Listen to this dream I had.	6 فقال لهم اسمعوا هذا الحلم الذي حلمت.
7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheaf and bowed down to it."	7 فها نحن حازمون حزما في الحقل. واذا حزمتي قامت وانتصبت فاحتاطت حزمكم وسجدت لحزمتي.
8 "Are you really going to make yourself king over us?" his brothers asked him. "Or impose your rule on us?" So they hated him all the more because of his talk about his dreams.	8 فقال له اخوته ألعلك تملك علينا ملكا ام تتسلط علينا تسلّطا. وازدادوا ايضا بغضا له من اجل احلامه ومن اجل كلامه.
9 Then he had another dream, and this one, too, he told to his brothers. "I had another dream," he said; "this time, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."	9 ثم حلم ايضا حلما آخر وقصّه على اخوته. فقال اني قد حلمت حلما ايضا واذا الشمس والقمر واحد عشر كوكبا ساجدة لي.
10 When he also told it to his father, his father reproved him. "What is the meaning of this dream of yours?" he asked. "Can it be that I and your mother and your brothers are to come and bow to the ground before you?"	10 وقصّه على ابيه وعلى اخوته. فانتهره ابوه وقال له ما هذا الحلم الذي حلمت. هل نأتي انا وامك واخوتك لنسجد لك الى الارض.
11 So his brothers were wrought up against him but his father pondered the matter.	11 فحسده اخوته. واما ابوه فحفظ الامر
12 One day, when his brothers had gone to pasture their father's flocks at Shechem,	12 ومضى اخوته ليرعوا غنم ابيهم عند شكيم.
13 Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers, you know, are tending our flocks at Shechem. Get ready; I will send you to them." "I am ready," Joseph answered.	13 فقال اسرائيل ليوسف أليس اخوتك يرعون عند شكيم. تعال فارسلك اليهم. فقال له هانذا.
14 "Go then," he replied; "see if all is well with your brothers and the flocks, and bring back word." So he sent him off from the valley of Hebron. When Joseph reached Shechem,	14 فقال له اذهب انظر سلامة اخوتك وسلامة الغنم وردّ لي خبرا. فارسله من وطاء حبرون فاتى الى شكيم.
15 a man met him as he was wandering about in the fields. "What are you looking for?" the man asked him.	15 فوجده رجل واذا هو ضال في الحقل. فساله الرجل قائلا ماذا تطلب.
16 "I am looking for my brothers," he answered. "Could you please tell me where they are tending the flocks?"	16 فقال انا طالب اخوتي. اخبرني اين يرعون.
17 The man told him, "They have moved on from here; in fact, I heard them say, 'Let us go on to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and caught up with them in Dothan.	17 فقال الرجل قد ارتحلوا من هنا. لاني سمعتهم يقولون لنذهب الى دوثان. فذهب يوسف وراء اخوته فوجدهم في دوثان
18 They noticed him from a distance, and before he came up to them, they plotted to kill him.	18 فلما ابصروه من بعيد قبلما اقترب اليهم احتالوا له ليميتوه.
19 They said to one another: "Here comes that master dreamer!	19 فقال بعضهم لبعض هوذا هذا صاحب الاحلام قادم.
20 Come on, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We shall then see what comes of his dreams."	20 فالآن هلم نقتله ونطرحه في احدى الآبار ونقول وحش رديء اكله. فنرى ماذا تكون احلامه.
21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from their hands, saying: "We must not take his life.	21 فسمع رأوبين وانقذه من ايديهم. وقال لا نقتله.
22 Instead of shedding blood," he continued, "just throw him into that cistern there in the desert; but don't kill him outright." His purpose was to rescue him from their hands and restore him to his father.	22 وقال لهم رأوبين لا تسفكوا دما. اطرحوه في هذه البئر التي في البرية ولا تمدوا اليه يدا. لكي ينقذه من ايديهم ليرده الى ابيه.
23 So when Joseph came up to them, they stripped him of the long tunic he had on;	23 فكان لما جاء يوسف الى اخوته انهم خلعوا عن يوسف قميصه القميص الملوّن الذي عليه.
24 then they took him and threw him into the cistern, which was empty and dry.	24 واخذوه وطرحوه في البئر. واما البئر فكانت فارغة ليس فيها ماء
25 They then sat down to their meal. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels laden with gum, balm and resin to be taken down to Egypt.	25 ثم جلسوا ليأكلوا طعاما. فرفعوا عيونهم ونظروا واذا قافلة اسمعيليين مقبلة من جلعاد وجمالهم حاملة كثيراء وبلسانا ولاذنا ذاهبين لينزلوا بها الى مصر.
26 Judah said to his brothers: "What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood?	26 فقال يهوذا لاخوته ما الفائدة ان نقتل اخانا ونخفي دمه.
27 Rather, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, instead of doing away with him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.	27 تعالوا فنبيعه للاسمعيليين ولا تكن ايدينا عليه لانه اخونا ولحمنا. فسمع له اخوته.
28 They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Some Midianite traders passed by, and they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and took him to Egypt.	28 واجتاز رجال مديانيون تجار. فسحبوا يوسف واصعدوه من البئر وباعوا يوسف للاسمعيليين بعشرين من الفضة. فأتوا بيوسف الى مصر.
29 When Reuben went back to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not in it, he tore his clothes,	29 ورجع رأوبين الى البئر واذا يوسف ليس في البئر. فمزّق ثيابه.
30 and returning to his brothers, he exclaimed: "The boy is gone! And I--where can I turn?"	30 ثم رجع الى اخوته وقال الولد ليس موجودا. وانا الى اين اذهب
31 They took Joseph's tunic, and after slaughtering a goat, dipped the tunic in its blood.	31 فأخذوا قميص يوسف وذبحوا تيسا من المعزى وغمسوا القميص في الدم.
32 Then they sent someone to bring the long tunic to their father, with the message: "We found this. See whether it is your son's tunic or not."	32 وارسلوا القميص الملّون واحضروه الى ابيهم. وقالوا وجدنا هذا. حقق أقميص ابنك هو ام لا.
33 He recognized it and exclaimed: "My son's tunic! A wild beast has devoured him! Joseph has been torn to pieces!"	33 فتحققه وقال قميص ابني. وحش رديء اكله. افترس يوسف افتراسا.
34 Then Jacob rent his clothes, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned his son many days.	34 فمزّق يعقوب ثيابه ووضع مسحا على حقويه وناح على ابنه اياما كثيرة.
35 Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, he refused all consolation, saying, "No, I will go down mourning to my son in the nether world." Thus did his father lament him.	35 فقام جميع بنيه وجميع بناته ليعزوه. فابى ان يتعزى وقال اني انزل الى ابني نائحا الى الهاوية. وبكى عليه ابوه
36 The Midianites, meanwhile, sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, a courtier of Pharaoh and his chief steward.	36 واما المديانيون فباعوه في مصر لفوطيفار خصي فرعون رئيس الشّرط