¹約瑟和他的兄弟雅各住在他父親寄居的地方，就是迦南地。

¹Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

²雅各的歷史記在下面：約瑟十七歲的時候，與他的哥哥們一同牧羊。他是個孩童，與他父親的妾，辟拉和悉帕的眾子，常在一起。約瑟把他們的惡行報告給父親。

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.

³以色列愛約瑟過於愛其他的兒子，因為約瑟是他年老時生的。他給約瑟做了一件彩色長衣。

³Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

⁴約瑟的哥哥們見父親愛約瑟過於愛他們，就恨約瑟，不能與他和和氣氣地說話。

⁴His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

⁵約瑟的夢約瑟作了一個夢，把夢告訴哥哥們，他們就越發恨他。

⁵Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

⁶約瑟對他們說：“請聽我所作的這個夢：

⁶He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

⁷我們正在田間捆麥子，我的麥捆忽然站立起來，你們的麥捆都來圍著我的下拜。”

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.”

⁸他的哥哥們對他說：“你真的要作我們的王嗎？真的要管轄我們嗎？”他們就為了約瑟的夢和他的話，越發恨他。

⁸His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹後來約瑟又作了一個夢，也把夢向哥哥們述說了。他說：“我又作了一個夢，我夢見太陽、月亮和十一顆星向我下拜。”

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.”

¹⁰約瑟把夢向他父親和哥哥們述說了，他父親就斥責他，說：“你所作的這夢是甚麼夢呢？我和你母親，以及你的兄弟，真的要來俯伏在地向你下拜嗎？”

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 you to the earth?”

¹¹他哥哥們都嫉妒他，他父親卻把這事記在心裡。

¹¹His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

¹²約瑟被賣到埃及約瑟的哥哥們去了示劍，牧放他們父親的羊群。

¹²His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

¹³以色列對約瑟說：“你的哥哥們不是在示劍牧放羊群嗎？來吧，我要派你到他們那裡去。”約瑟回答他：“我在這裡。”

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.”

¹⁴以色列對他說：“你去看看你的哥哥們是不是平安，羊群是不是平安，就回來告訴我。”於是打發他離開希伯崙谷，他就到示劍去了。

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.

¹⁵有人遇見約瑟在田間迷了路，就問他說：“你找甚麼？”

¹⁵A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

¹⁶他回答：“我正在找我的哥哥們，請你告訴我他們在哪裡牧放羊群。”

¹⁶He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”

¹⁷那人說：“他們已經離開了這裡；我聽見他們說：‘我們要到多坍去。’”於是約瑟去追尋哥哥們，結果在多坍找到了他們。

¹⁷The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

¹⁸他們遠遠就看見了他；趁他還沒有走近，大家就謀害他，要把他殺死。

¹⁸They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

¹⁹他們彼此說：“看哪，那作夢的人來了。

¹⁹They said one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

²⁰來吧，我們把他殺了，丟在一個枯井裡，就說有猛獸把他吃了。我們要看看他的夢將來要怎麼樣。”

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.”

²¹流本聽見了，要救約瑟脫離他們的手。他說：“我們不可取他的性命。”

²¹Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

²²流本又對他們說：“不可流他的血，可以把他丟在這曠野的枯井裡，不可下手害他。”流本的意思是要救他脫離他們的手，把他帶回去給他的父親。

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.

²³約瑟到了哥哥們那裡，他們就脫去他的外衣，就是他穿在身上的那件彩衣。

²³It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

²⁴他們拿住約瑟，把他丟在枯井裡。那井是空的，裡面沒有水。

²⁴and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

²⁵他們坐下吃飯，舉目觀看，見有一群以實瑪利人從基列來。他們的駱駝載著香料、乳香和沒藥，要帶下埃及去。

²⁵They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

²⁶猶大對他的眾兄弟說：“我們殺了我們的兄弟，把他的血隱藏起來，究竟有甚麼益處呢？

²⁶Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

²⁷我們不如把他賣給以實瑪利人，不要下手害他，因為他是我們的兄弟，我們的骨肉。”眾兄弟就聽從了他。

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.

²⁸有些米甸的商人經過那裡，約瑟的哥哥們就把約瑟從枯井裡拉上來，以二十塊銀子把他賣給以實瑪利人。以實瑪利人就把約瑟帶到埃及去了。

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. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

²⁹流本回到枯井那裡，見約瑟不在井裡，就撕裂自己的衣服。

²⁹Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

³⁰他回到兄弟們那裡去，說：“孩子不見了，我可到哪裡去呢？”

³⁰He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

³¹於是，他們宰了一隻公山羊，把約瑟的長衣蘸在血裡；

³¹They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

³²然後打發人把彩衣送到他們父親那裡，說：“這是我們找到的。請你認一認，是你兒子的長衣不是？”

³²They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”

³³他認出這件長衣，就說：“是我兒子的長衣，有猛獸把他吃了。約瑟真的被撕碎了。”

³³He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

³⁴雅各就撕裂自己的衣服，腰束麻布，為他兒子哀悼了很多日子。

³⁴Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

³⁵他所有的兒女都起來安慰他，他卻不肯接受他們的安慰，說：“我要悲悲哀哀地下到陰間，到我的兒子那裡去。”約瑟的父親就為他哀哭。

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 Sheol is the place of the dead. to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.

³⁶米甸人後來把約瑟賣到埃及去，賣給法老的一個臣宰，軍長波提乏。

³⁶The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.