Genesis 37
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
1Habitavit autem Jacob in terra Chanaan, in qua pater suus peregrinatus est.
2This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
2Et hæ sunt generationes ejus: Joseph cum sedecim esset annorum, pascebat gregem cum fratribus suis adhuc puer: et erat cum filiis Balæ et Zelphæ uxorum patris sui: accusavitque fratres suos apud patrem crimine pessimo.
3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
3Israël autem diligebat Joseph super omnes filios suos, eo quod in senectute genuisset eum: fecitque ei tunicam polymitam.
4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
4Videntes autem fratres ejus quod a patre plus cunctis filiis amaretur, oderant eum, nec poterant ei quidquam pacifice loqui.
5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
5Accidit quoque ut visum somnium referret fratribus suis: quæ causa majoris odii seminarium fuit.
6He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
6Dixitque ad eos: Audite somnium meum quod vidi:
7for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
7putabam nos ligare manipulos in agro: et quasi consurgere manipulum meum, et stare, vestrosque manipulos circumstantes adorare manipulum meum.
8His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
8Responderunt fratres ejus: Numquid rex noster eris? aut subjiciemur ditioni tuæ? Hæc ergo causa somniorum atque sermonum, invidiæ et odii fomitem ministravit.
9He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
9Aliud quoque vidit somnium, quod narrans fratribus, ait: Vidi per somnium, quasi solem, et lunam, et stellas undecim adorare me.
10He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to the earth before you?”
10Quod cum patri suo, et fratribus retulisset, increpavit eum pater suus, et dixit: Quid sibi vult hoc somnium quod vidisti? num ego et mater tua, et fratres tui adorabimus te super terram?
11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
11Invidebant ei igitur fratres sui: pater vero rem tacitus considerabat.
12His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
12Cumque fratres illius in pascendis gregibus patris morarentur in Sichem,
13Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
13dixit ad eum Israël: Fratres tui pascunt oves in Sichimis: veni, mittam te ad eos. Quo respondente,
14He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
14Præsto sum, ait ei: Vade, et vide si cuncta prospera sint erga fratres tuos, et pecora: et renuntia mihi quid agatur. Missus de valle Hebron, venit in Sichem:
15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
15invenitque eum vir errantem in agro, et interrogavit quid quæreret.
16He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
16At ille respondit: Fratres meos quæro: indica mihi ubi pascant greges.
17The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
17Dixitque ei vir: Recesserunt de loco isto: audivi autem eos dicentes: Eamus in Dothain. Perrexit ergo Joseph post fratres suos, et invenit eos in Dothain.
18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
18Qui cum vidissent eum procul, antequam accederet ad eos, cogitaverunt illum occidere:
19They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
19et mutuo loquebantur: Ecce somniator venit:
20Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
20venite, occidamus eum, et mittamus in cisternam veterem: dicemusque: Fera pessima devoravit eum: et tunc apparebit quid illi prosint somnia sua.
21Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
21Audiens autem hoc Ruben, nitebatur liberare eum de manibus eorum, et dicebat:
22Reuben 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 hand, to restore him to his father.
22Non interficiatis animam ejus, nec effundatis sanguinem: sed projicite eum in cisternam hanc, quæ est in solitudine, manusque vestras servate innoxias: hoc autem dicebat, volens eripere eum de manibus eorum, et reddere patri suo.
23When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;
23Confestim igitur ut pervenit ad fratres suos, nudaverunt eum tunica talari et polymita:
24and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
24miseruntque eum in cisternam veterem, quæ non habebat aquam.
25They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
25Et sedentes ut comederent panem, viderunt Ismaëlitas viatores venire de Galaad, et camelos eorum portantes aromata, et resinam, et stacten in Ægyptum.
26Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
26Dixit ergo Judas fratribus suis: Quid nobis prodest si occiderimus fratrem nostrum, et celaverimus sanguinem ipsius?
27Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
27melius est ut venundetur Ismaëlitis, et manus nostræ non polluantur: frater enim et caro nostra est. Acquieverunt fratres sermonibus illius.
28Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.
28Et prætereuntibus Madianitis negotiatoribus, extrahentes eum de cisterna, vendiderunt eum Ismaëlitis, viginti argenteis: qui duxerunt eum in Ægyptum.
29Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
29Reversusque Ruben ad cisternam, non invenit puerum:
30He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
30et scissis vestibus pergens ad fratres suos, ait: Puer non comparet, et ego quo ibo?
31They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
31Tulerunt autem tunicam ejus, et in sanguine hædi, quem occiderant, tinxerunt:
32They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”
32mittentes qui ferrent ad patrem, et dicerent: Hanc invenimus: vide utrum tunica filii tui sit, an non.
33He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”
33Quam cum agnovisset pater, ait: Tunica filii mei est: fera pessima comedit eum, bestia devoravit Joseph.
34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
34Scissisque vestibus, indutus est cilicio, lugens filium suum multo tempore.
35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
35Congregatis autem cunctis liberis ejus ut lenirent dolorem patris, noluit consolationem accipere, sed ait: Descendam ad filium meum lugens in infernum. Et illo perseverante in fletu,
36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
36Madianitæ vendiderunt Joseph in Ægypto Putiphari eunucho Pharaonis, magistro militum.
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