| 猶大和他瑪 |
| 38:1 | [NASB] And it came about at that time, that Judah departed from his brothers and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. |
| 38:2 | [NASB] Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her and went in to her. |
| 38:3 | [NASB] So she conceived and bore a son and he named him Er. |
| 38:4 | [NASB] Then she conceived again and bore a son and named him Onan. |
| 38:5 | [NASB] She bore still another son and named him Shelah; and it was at Chezib that she bore him. |
| 38:6 | [NASB] Now Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name {was} Tamar. |
| 38:7 | [NASB] But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD took his life. |
| 38:8 | [NASB] Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." |
| 38:9 | [NASB] Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. |
| 38:10 | [NASB] But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also. |
| 38:11 | [NASB] Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"; for he thought, "{I am afraid} that he too may die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house. |
| 38:12 | [NASB] Now after a considerable time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. |
| 38:13 | [NASB] It was told to Tamar, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." |
| 38:14 | [NASB] So she removed her widow's garments and covered {herself} with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife. |
| 38:15 | [NASB] When Judah saw her, he thought she {was} a harlot, for she had covered her face. |
| 38:16 | [NASB] So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, "Here now, let me come in to you"; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?" |
| 38:17 | [NASB] He said, therefore, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, moreover, "Will you give a pledge until you send {it?}" |
| 38:18 | [NASB] He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" And she said, "Your seal and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave {them} to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. |
| 38:19 | [NASB] Then she arose and departed, and removed her veil and put on her widow's garments. |
| 38:20 | [NASB] When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her. |
| 38:21 | [NASB] He asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the temple prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?" But they said, "There has been no temple prostitute here." |
| 38:22 | [NASB] So he returned to Judah, and said, "I did not find her; and furthermore, the men of the place said, 'There has been no temple prostitute here.'" |
| 38:23 | [NASB] Then Judah said, "Let her keep them, otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her." |
| 38:24 | [NASB] Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry." Then Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned!" |
| 38:25 | [NASB] It was while she was being brought out that she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "I am with child by the man to whom these things belong." And she said, "Please examine and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?" |
| 38:26 | [NASB] Judah recognized {them,} and said, "She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not have relations with her again. |
| 38:27 | [NASB] It came about at the time she was giving birth, that behold, there were twins in her womb. |
| 38:28 | [NASB] Moreover, it took place while she was giving birth, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet {thread} on his hand, saying, "This one came out first." |
| 38:29 | [NASB] But it came about as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out. Then she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" So he was named Perez. |
| 38:30 | [NASB] Afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet {thread} on his hand; and he was named Zerah. |
| 約瑟和波提乏 |
| 39:1 | [NASB] Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there. |
| 39:2 | [NASB] The LORD was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. |
| 39:3 | [NASB] Now his master saw that the LORD was with him and {how} the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hand. |
| 39:4 | [NASB] So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal servant; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he owned he put in his charge. |
| 39:5 | [NASB] It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house on account of Joseph; thus the LORD'S blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field. |
| 39:6 | [NASB] So he left everything he owned in Joseph's charge; and with him {there} he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. |
| 波提乏妻誣告約瑟 |
| 39:7 | [NASB] It came about after these events that his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." |
| 39:8 | [NASB] But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me {here,} my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my charge. |
| 39:9 | [NASB] "There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?" |
| 39:10 | [NASB] As she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her {or} be with her. |
| 39:11 | [NASB] Now it happened one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the household was there inside. |
| 39:12 | [NASB] She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside. |
| 39:13 | [NASB] When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside, |
| 39:14 | [NASB] she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to make sport of us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I screamed. |
| 39:15 | [NASB] "When he heard that I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside." |
| 39:16 | [NASB] So she left his garment beside her until his master came home. |
| 39:17 | [NASB] Then she spoke to him with these words, "The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me; |
| 39:18 | [NASB] and as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside." |
| 波提乏囚約瑟下監 |
| 39:19 | [NASB] Now when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," his anger burned. |
| 39:20 | [NASB] So Joseph's master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king's prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail. |
| 39:21 | [NASB] But the LORD was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer. |
| 39:22 | [NASB] The chief jailer committed to Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the jail; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible {for it.} |
| 39:23 | [NASB] The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper. |
| 約瑟解酒政膳長的夢 |
| 40:1 | [NASB] Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. |
| 40:2 | [NASB] Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. |
| 40:3 | [NASB] So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the {same} place where Joseph was imprisoned. |
| 40:4 | [NASB] The captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them; and they were in confinement for some time. |
| 40:5 | [NASB] Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had a dream the same night, each man with his {own} dream {and} each dream with its {own} interpretation. |
| 40:6 | [NASB] When Joseph came to them in the morning and observed them, behold, they were dejected. |
| 40:7 | [NASB] He asked Pharaoh's officials who were with him in confinement in his master's house, "Why are your faces so sad today?" |
| 40:8 | [NASB] Then they said to him, "We have had a dream and there is no one to interpret it." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell {it} to me, please." |
| 40:9 | [NASB] So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, {there was} a vine in front of me; |
| 40:10 | [NASB] and on the vine {were} three branches. And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, {and} its clusters produced ripe grapes. |
| 40:11 | [NASB] "Now Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; so I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I put the cup into Pharaoh's hand." |
| 40:12 | [NASB] Then Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days; |
| 40:13 | [NASB] within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer. |
| 40:14 | [NASB] "Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house. |
| 40:15 | [NASB] "For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon." |
| 40:16 | [NASB] When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph, "I also {saw} in my dream, and behold, {there were} three baskets of white bread on my head; |
| 40:17 | [NASB] and in the top basket {there were} some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head." |
| 40:18 | [NASB] Then Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days; |
| 40:19 | [NASB] within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you." |
| 40:20 | [NASB] Thus it came about on the third day, {which was} Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. |
| 40:21 | [NASB] He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh's hand; |
| 40:22 | [NASB] but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them. |
| 40:23 | [NASB] Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. |
