너를 일으켜 세우겠다(창세기 46장)

일으켜 세우겠다

 

창세기 45장 포스팅 읽기

 

1. So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

 

 

 

 

2. And God. spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."

3. Then he said, " I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.

4. I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."

 

이스라엘이 브엘샤바로 가서 하나님께 제사를 지냈더니 그날 밤 하나님이 야곱을 부릅니다. 그리고는 이집트로 가는 것을 두려워 말라며 내가 너와 함께 이집트로 가서 너를 일으켜 세우겠다고 하십니다. 왜 이들의 하나님은 자꾸 남의 땅을 뺏으려고 하는지 알다가도 모르겠습니다만.

 

 

5. Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

6. They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

7. his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

 

 

 가족들과 이집트로 떠나며

 

8. Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt. Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,

9. and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

10. The son of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

11. The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah(but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

13. The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron.

14. The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

15. These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

 

 

16. The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

17. The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

18. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob-sixteen persons.

 

19. The sons of Rachel,Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

20. And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.

21. And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

22. These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob-fourteen persons in all.

 

23. The sons of Dan: Hushim.

24. The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25.These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob- seven persons in all.

 

26. All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all.

 

야곱의 자손 중에서 야곱 아들들의 아내를 제외하고 이집트에 들어온 사람은 모두 66명이었다고 하는데 이 66명에 특별한 의미가 있는 것은 아니겠죠?

 

27. And  the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

 

28. He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

29. Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

30. Israel said to Joseph. " Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."

31. Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, " I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, ' My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 

32. And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'

33. When Pharaoh calls you and says, ' What is your occupation?'

34. you shall say, ' Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

 

 

어쨌든 야곱과 그의 아들 요셉은 고난의 시간을 버티고 이집트의 가장 좋은 땅에서 터전을 마련하여 비로소 살만해진 것 같은 내용인데요. 뭔가 정치적 야욕없이 목자로 사는 것을 이집트 군주에게 어필도 하고, 그런 삶을 추구하는 형제들만 선별하는 등 요셉의 치밀한 행동도 엿보이는 것 같습니다. 이번 장은 제일 재미가 없어서 대충 읽고 넘깁니다.