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

¹Jakob je torej bival v deželi tujčevanja očeta svojega, v deželi Kanaanski.

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.

²Ti so rodovi Jakobovi: Jožef, star sedemnajst let, je pasel z brati svojimi čredo, in bil je kot deček pri sinovih Bilhe in pri sinovih Zilpe, žen očeta svojega. In Jožef je poročal njih očetu, kadar je šel hud glas o njih.

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.

³Izrael pa je bolj ljubil Jožefa nego vse svoje sinove, zato ker mu je bil v starosti rojen, in naredil mu je dolgo, pisano suknjo.

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

⁴Ko so pa videli bratje njegovi, da ga bolj ljubi njih oče nego vse njegove brate, so ga sovražili in ga niso mogli prijazno ogovoriti.

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

⁵Imel pa je Jožef sanje in jih je pripovedoval bratom svojim; zategadelj so ga še bolj sovražili.

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

⁶Rekel jim je namreč: Poslušajte vendar sanje te, ki sem jih imel.

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.”

⁷Glejte, vezali smo snope na polju, in glejte, moj snop se je vzdignil in je stal, glejte pa, vaši snopi so hodili okrog in se priklanjali mojemu snopu.

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.

⁸Tedaj mu reko bratje njegovi: Hočeš li kar kraljevati nam ali kar gospodovati nam? In so ga še bolj sovražili zaradi sanj njegovih in zaradi njegovih besed.

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.”

⁹Nato je imel še druge sanje in jih je povedal bratom svojim ter rekel: Glejte, imel sem še sanje; glejte pa, solne in mesec in enajst zvezd se je klanjalo meni.

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?”

¹⁰Ko je pa pripovedoval očetu svojemu in bratom svojim, ga pokara oče in mu reče: Kake so te sanje, ki si jih imel? Pridemo li res jaz in mati tvoja in bratje tvoji, da se ti priklonimo do tal?

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

¹¹Zavidali so mu torej bratje njegovi, oče njegov pa je to besedo ohranil v misli.

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

¹²Ko so pa odšli bratje njegovi past čredo očeta svojega poleg Sihema,

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.”

¹³reče Izrael Jožefu: Ali ne paso bratje tvoji poleg Sihema? Pojdi, pošljem te k njim. On pa mu reče: Tukaj sem.

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.

¹⁴Nato mu veli: Pojdi torej in poglej, ali so zdravi bratje tvoji in zdrava čreda, in sporoči mi kaj. Tako ga je poslal iz Hebronske doline, in Jožef krene proti Sihemu.

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

¹⁵Najde pa ga neki mož, ko je, glej, taval po polju, in vpraša ga tisti mož, rekoč: Kaj iščeš?

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

¹⁶On pa reče: Brate svoje iščem; povej mi, prosim, kje neki pasejo.

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.

¹⁷Mož pa reče: Šli so iz tega kraja, kajti slišal sem, ko so rekli: Pojdimo v Dotan. Jožef je šel torej za brati svojimi ter jih najde v Dotanu.

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

¹⁸Oni pa ga zagledajo oddaleč, in ko ni bil še prišel do njih, so skovali zvijačo zoper njega, da ga usmrte.

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

¹⁹Reko namreč drug drugemu: Glejte, tisti gospod sanj prihaja.

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.”

²⁰Sedaj torej, dejte, umorimo ga in vrzimo ga v enega tistih vodnjakov, pa porečemo: Huda zver ga je požrla; in bomo videli, kaj bode iz sanj njegovih.

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

²¹Ali ko je slišal Ruben, ga otme iz njih rok, rekoč: Ne udarimo ga smrtno!

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.

²²In jim reče Ruben: Ne prelivajte krvi; vrzite ga v tisti vodnjak, ki je v puščavi, in ne položite roke nanj! – da bi ga otel iz njih rok ter ga pripeljal k svojemu očetu.

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

²³In zgodi se, ko je prišel Jožef k bratom svojim, da mu slečejo suknjo, tisto pisano, dolgo suknjo, s katero je bil oblečen,

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

²⁴in ga vzemo ter vržejo v tisti vodnjak. Vodnjak pa je bil prazen, vode ni bilo v njem.

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.

²⁵Nato sedejo, da použijejo kruh; in povzdignejo oči ter vidijo, in glej družbo popotnih Izmaelcev, ki so prihajali iz Gileada; njih velblodi otovorjeni z dišavami in mazilom in miro, in potovali so, da bi to prinesli v Egipt.

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

²⁶In Juda reče bratom svojim: Kaj bode dobička, če umorimo brata svojega in skrijemo kri njegovo?

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.

²⁷Dejte, prodajmo ga Izmaelcem, in roke naše naj se nad njim ne pregreše, zakaj brat je naš, meso naše. In poslušali so ga bratje njegovi.

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.

²⁸Ko so torej mimo šli kupci madianski, izvlečejo ter potegnejo Jožefa iz vodnjaka in ga prodado Izmaelcem za dvajset srebrnikov. Ti pa odpeljejo Jožefa v Egipt.

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

²⁹Ko se je pa vrnil Ruben k vodnjaku, glej, ni bilo Jožefa v vodnjaku; in raztrga oblačila svoja.

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

³⁰In se vrne k bratom svojim in reče: Dečka ni tu, jaz pa kam naj se obrnem?

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

³¹Tedaj vzemo suknjo Jožefovo in zakoljejo kozliča in jo pomočijo v kri njegovo.

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.”

³²Potem pošljejo tisto dolgo, pisano suknjo in jo velé nesti k njih očetu, ter reko: To smo našli; poglej vendar, je li ta suknja sinú tvojega ali ne.

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

³³On pa jo je spoznal in reče: Suknja je sina mojega; huda zver ga je požrla; raztrgan, dá, raztrgan je Jožef!

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

³⁴In Jakob raztrga oblačila svoja ter si ogrne ledja z žimovino, in žaloval je po sinu svojem mnogo dni.

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.

³⁵In vstali so vsi sinovi njegovi in vse hčere njegove, da bi ga tolažili, a branil se je tolažbe, govoreč: Ne, kajti doli pojdem žalosten k sinu svojemu v grob [Hebrejski šeol, t. j. bivališče mrtvih, država smrti.]. In jokal je oče njegov za njim.Madiani pa ga prodado v Egipt Potifarju, dvorniku Faraonovemu, načelniku telesne straže.

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

³⁶Madiani pa ga prodado v Egipt Potifarju, dvorniku Faraonovemu, načelniku telesne straže.