¹ 耶和华的话又临到我说：

² 人子啊，有两个女子，是一母所生，

³ 他们在埃及行邪淫，在幼年时行邪淫。他们在那里作处女的时候，有人拥抱他们的怀，抚摸他们的乳。

⁴ 他们的名字，姊姊名叫阿荷拉，妹妹名叫阿荷利巴。他们都归於我，生了儿女。论到他们的名字，阿荷拉就是撒玛利亚，阿荷利巴就是耶路撒冷。

⁵ 阿荷拉归我之後行邪淫，贪恋所爱的人，就是他的邻邦亚述人。

⁶ 这些人都穿蓝衣，作省长、副省长，都骑着马，是可爱的少年人。

⁷ 阿荷拉就与亚述人中最美的男子放纵淫行，他因所恋爱之人的一切偶像，玷污自己。

⁸ 自从在埃及的时候，他就没有离开淫乱，因为他年幼作处女的时候，埃及人与他行淫，抚摸他的乳，纵欲与他行淫。

⁹ 因此，我将他交在他所爱的人手中，就是他所恋爱的亚述人手中。

¹⁰ 他们就露了他的下体，掳掠他的儿女，用刀杀了他，使他在妇女中留下臭名，因他们向他施行审判。

¹¹ 他妹妹阿荷利巴虽然看见了，却还贪恋，比他姊姊更丑；行淫乱比他姊姊更多。

¹² 他贪恋邻邦的亚述人，就是穿极华美的衣服，骑着马的省长、副省长，都是可爱的少年人。

¹³ 我看见他被玷污了，他姊妹二人同行一路。

¹⁴ 阿荷利巴又加增淫行，因他看见人像画在墙上，就是用丹色所画迦勒底人的像，

¹⁵ 腰间系着带子，头上有下垂的裹头巾，都是军长的形状，仿照巴比伦人的形像；他们的故土就是迦勒底。

¹⁶ 阿荷利巴一看见就贪恋他们，打发使者往迦勒底去见他们。

¹⁷ 巴比伦人就来登他爱情的床，与他行淫玷污他。他被玷污，随後心里与他们生疏。

¹⁸ 这样，他显露淫行，又显露下体；我心就与他生疏，像先前与他姊姊生疏一样。

¹⁹ 他还加增他的淫行，追念他幼年在埃及地行邪淫的日子，

²⁰ 贪恋情人身壮精足，如驴如马。

²¹ 这样，你就想起你幼年的淫行。那时，埃及人拥抱你的怀，抚摸你的乳。

²² 阿荷利巴啊，主耶和华如此说：我必激动你先爱而後生疏的人来攻击你。我必使他们来，在你四围攻击你。

²³ 所来的就是巴比伦人、迦勒底的众人、比割人、书亚人、哥亚人，同着他们的还有亚述众人，乃是作省长、副省长、作军长有名声的，都骑着马，是可爱的少年人。

²⁴ 他们必带兵器、战车、辎重车，率领大众来攻击你。他们要拿大小盾牌，顶盔摆阵，在你四围攻击你。我要将审判的事交给他们，他们必按着自己的条例审判你。

²⁵ 我必以忌恨攻击你；他们必以忿怒办你。他们必割去你的鼻子和耳朵；你遗留（或译：馀剩；下同）的人必倒在刀下。他们必掳去你的儿女；你所遗留的必被火焚烧。

²⁶ 他们必剥去你的衣服，夺取你华美的宝器。

²⁷ 这样，我必使你的淫行和你从埃及地染来的淫乱止息了，使你不再仰望亚述，也不再追念埃及。

²⁸ 主耶和华如此说：我必将你交在你所恨恶的人手中，就是你心与他生疏的人手中。

²⁹ 他们必以恨恶办你，夺取你一切劳碌得来的，留下你赤身露体。你淫乱的下体，连你的淫行，带你的淫乱，都被显露。

³⁰ 人必向你行这些事；因为你随从外邦人行邪淫，被他们的偶像玷污了。

³¹ 你走了你姊姊所走的路，所以我必将他的杯交在你手中。

³² 主耶和华如此说：你必喝你姊姊所喝的杯；那杯又深又广，盛得甚多，使你被人嗤笑讥刺。

³³ 你必酩酊大醉，满有愁苦，喝乾你姊姊撒玛利亚的杯，就是令人惊骇凄凉的杯。

³⁴ 你必喝这杯，以致喝尽。杯破又龈杯片，撕裂自己的乳；因为这事我曾说过。这是主耶和华说的。

³⁵ 主耶和华如此说：因你忘记我，将我丢在背後，所以你要担当你淫行和淫乱的报应。

³⁶ 耶和华又对我说：人子啊，你要审问阿荷拉与阿荷利巴麽？当指出他们所行可憎的事。

³⁷ 他们行淫，手中有杀人的血，又与偶像行淫，并使他们为我所生的儿女经火烧给偶像。

³⁸ 此外，他们还有向我所行的，就是同日玷污我的圣所，干犯我的安息日。

³⁹ 他们杀了儿女献与偶像，当天又入我的圣所，将圣所亵渎了。他们在我殿中所行的乃是如此。

⁴⁰ 况且你们二妇打发使者去请远方人。使者到他们那里，他们就来了。你们为他们沐浴己身，粉饰眼目，佩戴妆饰，

⁴¹ 坐在华美的床上，前面摆设桌案，将我的香料膏油摆在其上。

⁴² 在那里有群众安逸欢乐的声音，并有粗俗的人和酒徒从旷野同来，把镯子戴在二妇的手上，把华冠戴在他们的头上。

⁴³ 我论这行淫衰老的妇人说：现在人还要与他行淫，他也要与人行淫。

⁴⁴ 人与阿荷拉，并阿荷利巴二淫妇苟合，好像与妓女苟合。

⁴⁵ 必有义人，照审判淫妇和流人血的妇人之例，审判他们；因为他们是淫妇，手中有杀人的血。

⁴⁶ 主耶和华如此说：我必使多人来攻击他们，使他们抛来抛去，被人抢夺。

⁴⁷ 这些人必用石头打死他们，用刀剑杀害他们，又杀戮他们的儿女，用火焚烧他们的房屋。

⁴⁸ 这样，我必使淫行从境内止息，好叫一切妇人都受警戒，不效法你们的淫行。

⁴⁹ 人必照着你们的淫行报应你们；你们要担当拜偶像的罪，就知道我是主耶和华。

⁴⁰ 他们也必带多人来攻击你，用石头打死你，用刀剑刺透你，

¹ It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

² Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

³ Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

⁴ The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

⁵ He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

⁶ Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

⁷ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

⁸ It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

⁹ Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.

¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

¹¹ We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

¹² There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

¹³ It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

¹⁵ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

¹⁶ Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

¹⁷ Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

¹⁸ and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

¹⁹ and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

²⁰ The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

²¹ and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

²² I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

²³ and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

²⁴ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

²⁵ Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

²⁶ The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

²⁷ The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

²⁸ That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

³⁰ There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

³¹ and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

³² The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

³³ "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

³⁵ Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

³⁶ The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

³⁷ The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

³⁸ Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

³⁹ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

⁴¹ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

⁴² Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

⁴³ and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁴ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

⁴⁵ Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶ Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁷ In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

⁴⁸ He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

⁴⁹ Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

⁵⁰ To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

⁵¹ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

⁵² The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

⁵³ The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

⁵⁴ The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

⁵⁵ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

⁵⁶ The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

⁵⁷ All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.