1Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
1 Yakuba goro nga baabo yawtaray laabo ra kaŋ ga ti Kanaana.
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.
2 Yakuba bandey neeya: Waato kaŋ Yusufu to jiiri way cindi iyye, a ga kurey kuru nga nya-izey banda. Bila da Zilpa, kaŋ ti a baabo wandey, i izey banda no arwaso go. Yusufu mo g'i kalima ngey baabo do.
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.
3 Woodin banda, Israyla* ga ba Yusufu ka bisa a beerey kulu, zama a zeenay boŋ ize no. A na jabba taalamante fo te a se mo.
4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
4 A beerey mo faham ka bay kaŋ ngey baabo ga ba r'a. I konn'a mo, hal i si hin ka baani sanni te a se.
5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
5 Kala Yusufu na hindiri fo te, a n'a ci mo nga beerey se, hal i konn'a ka tonton.
6He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
6 A ne i se: «Ay g'araŋ ŋwaaray, wa maa ay hindiro wo kaŋ ay te.
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.”
7 Zama a go, iri goono ga bokoyaŋ haw fari ra. Kal ay bokwa go, a tun ka kay. Araŋ bokoy mo go, i kaa k'a windi. I sombu ay bokwa se.»
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.
8 A beerey ne a se: «Haba? Nin wo, daahir ni ga iri may, wala mo daahir ni ga du hin iri boŋ?» I ye ka konn'a ka tonton a hindiro sabbay se, d'a sanney mo sabbay se.
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.”
9 A ye ka hindiri fo te koyne, a n'a ci nga beerey se. A ne: «A go, ay ye ka hindiri fo te. Wayna da hando da handariya way cindi fo go, i somb'ay se.»
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?”
10 A na woodin ci nga baabo se, da nga beerey mo se. Kala baabo deen'a gaa ka ne a se: «Ifo no ni hindiro wo kaŋ ni te? Haba? Wiiza, in da ni nya da ni beerey, iri ga kaa ka sombu ni jine hala ganda, wala?»
11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
11 A beerey binde canse a gaa, amma baabo na sanno wo gaay nga bina ra.
12His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
12 A beerey binde koy zama ngey ma ngey baabo kurey kuru Sekem haray.
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.”
13 Israyla mo ne Yusufu se: «Manti Sekem haray no ni beerey goono ga kurey kuru bo? Kaa, ay ga ni donton i do.» Yusufu ne a se: «Ay neeya.»
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.
14 Baabo ne a se: «Ma koy ka ni beerey da kurey mo guna, hal i go baani. Ma ye ka kand'ay se baaru.» A binde n'a donton Hebron gooro ra. A koy Sekem.
15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
15 Kala boro fo n'a gar, a te boŋdaray saajo ra. Bora binde n'a hã ka ne: «Ifo no ni goono ga ceeci?»
16He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
16 A ne: «Ay beerey no ay goono ga ceeci. Ay ga ni ŋwaaray, ma ci ay se naŋ kaŋ i gana ka koy ka ngey kurey kuru.»
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.
17 Bora ne a se: «I jin ka tun neewo, zama ay maa i ga ne: ‹Iri ma koy Dotan.› » Kala Yusufu na nga beerey ce gana. A n'i gar Dotan.
18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
18 I binde n'a fonnay nangu mooro, za a mana maan i do jina. I na me haw a boŋ, mate kaŋ ngey ga te k'a wi.
19They said one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
19 I ne ngey da cara se: «Guna hindirikoyo no go kaa, ya!
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.”
20 Iri binde ma koy k'a wi ka jindaw guusey wo afo ra. Iri ma ne ganji ham laalo fo no k'a ŋwa. Waato din gaa iri ma di haŋ kaŋ no a hindiro ga ciya.»
21Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
21 Amma Ruben maa, a n'a faaba mo i kambe ra ka ne: «Iri ma s'a wi.»
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.
22 Ruben ne i se: «Iri ma si kuri mun, amma iri m'a jindaw guuso wo ra kaŋ go saajo wo ra. Wa si kambe dake a gaa.» A goono ga miila nga m'a faaba i kambe ra, k'a ye baabo do.
23It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
23 A ciya binde, waato kaŋ Yusufu kaa nga beerey do, i na Yusufu jabba kaa a gaa, jabba taalamanta din kaŋ a daŋ.
24and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
24 I n'a di ka jindaw guuso ra. Guuso mo ikogo no, hari si a ra.
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.
25 I goro zama ngey ma ŋwa. I na ngey boŋ sambu ka guna. Kal i di Isumeylancey jama fo go ga fun Jileyad haray ngey yoy banda. I gonda yaaziyaŋ yoy boŋ ga jeje, da zawul* dugu nda deeli. I go diraw ra zama ngey ma kond'ey Misira.
26Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
26 Kala Yahuda ne nga nya-izey se: «Iri m'iri kayne wi k'a kuro tugu wo, mana gaa a nafa?
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.
27 Wa kaa, iri m'a neera Isumeylancey se. Iri ma si kambe dake a gaa, zama iri kayne no, iri basi mo no.» A nya-izey mo n'a sanno gana.
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.
28 Kala waato kaŋ Midiyancey fatawc'ize fooyaŋ kaa ka bisa, i na Yusufu candi ka kaa guuso ra, k'a neera Isumeylancey se, nzarfu gude waranka. Ngey mo konda Yusufu Misira.
29Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
29 Amma Ruben ye guuso do. A go mo, Yusufu si guuso ra. Kala Ruben na nga bankaarayey tooru-tooru.
30He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
30 A ye nga kayney do ka ne: «Arwaso si noodin! Man no ay ga gana?»
31They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
31 I na Yusufu jabba sambu. I na jindi fo wi ka jabba sufu kuro ra.
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.”
32 I na jabba taalamanta din no i ma kond'a ngey baabo do. I ne: «Iri na woone gar. Ni ma guna ka di sohõ hala ni izo jabba no, wala manti nga no.»
33He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”
33 A n'a bay. A ne: «Ay izo jabba no, ganji ham laalo fo n'a ŋwa. Sikka si i na Yusufu tooru-tooru.»
34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
34 Kala Yakuba na nga bankaarayey tooru-tooru, a na bufu zaara haw nga canta gaa. A na nga izo baray jirbi boobo.
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.
35 A izey kulu, alborey da wayborey tun ka kaa zama ngey m'a yaamar, amma a wangu ka suuru. A ne: «Ay ga soobay ka hẽ kal ay ma koy Alaahara, ay izo do.» Yaadin no baabo soobay ka hẽ d'a a sabbay se.
36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
36 Midiyancey mo na Yusufu neera Misira laabo ra, Potifar se, Firawna mantaw fo no kaŋ doogarey koy no.