파라오의 꿈을 해석하고 애굽 총리가 된 요셉(창세기 41장)

파라오의 이상한 꿈을 해석하는 자가 없어서 드디어 술 따르는 시종이 은혜를 갚게 되는 순간이 오는 것 같습니다. 요셉은 파라오 앞에 꿈 해석을 해주고 파라오는 그에게 애굽 총리를 맡기고 아내까지 주어 두 아들을 낳았습니다. 풍년과 기근에 대처하는 요셉의 능력편입니다.

 

 

 

 

파라오의 이상한 꿈

 

1. After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,

2. and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass.

3. And behold seven other cows, ugly and thin, came p out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

4. And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive plump cows. And  Pharaoh awoke.

5. And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seaven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk,

6. And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and bighted by the east wind.

7. And the thin ears, And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

8. So in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

 

 

 

2년 후 파라오는 나일 강가에 서 있는 꿈을 꾸었습니다. 나일강에서 살이 포동포동하게 오른 7마리의 소들이 풀을 뜯어먹고 있었습니다. 그리고 못생기고 못 먹은 소 7마리도 강둑에 있는 다른 소들 옆에 있었는데요.  이것들이 살찐 소들을 먹어 치우길래 파라오는 잠에서 깨어났습니다.

 

 

그러다 다시 잠이 들었고 두 번째 꿈을 꾸게 되는데요. 일곱 개의 곡식 이삭이 통통하게 자라고 있고 옆에 앙상한 이삭 일곱 개가 나오더니 통통한 이삭을 먹어 삼켜서 또 꿈에서 깨어납니다. 아무래도 찜찜함을 느꼈던지 파라오는 현자들을 모아 꿈을 해석하라고 했지만 아무도 해석하지 못했습니다.

 

 

 술 따른 자의 과거 회상

 

9. Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharoh, " I remember my offenses today.

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

11. we dreamed on the same night, he and I , each having a dream with its own interpretation.

12. A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.

13. And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."

 

그러자 지난 번 죽을 뻔했던 술 따르는 시종이 자신이 감옥에 갇혀 있을 때 한 히브루 청년이 자신들의 꿈을 해석해 준 적이 있고 그의 말대로 자신은 살고 제빵사는 죽었다는 얘기를 해줬습니다. 그가 이제야 은혜를 갚으려는 걸까요?

 

 

요셉을 부른 파라오 왕

 

 

 

14. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.

 

왕이 술 따르는 시종 얘기를 듣고 요셉을 부르니 구덩이 속에서 일하던 요셉을 씻기고 옷을 입혀 왕 앞에 데려다 놓습니다. 파라오는 요셉에게 자신의 꿈을 해석해 보라고 합니다.

 

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

16. Joseph answered Pharaoh, " It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."

17. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, " Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.

18. Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.

19. Seven other cows came up after them,  poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.

20. And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,

21. but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.

22. I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good.

23. Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them, 

24. and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

 

입벌구라고 해야할지 달변가라고 해야 할지 요셉은 때는 이때다 싶지 않았을까요? 요셉은 서두에 이렇게 깔고 말하네요. 자신이 해석하는 것이 아닌 내 안의 하나님이 해석하는 거라고요. 마치 무당 같네요. 아무튼, 파라오는 요셉에게 자신의 꿈을 장황하게 늘어놓습니다.

 

 

 

파라오의 꿈을 해석한 요셉

 

25. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

26. The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.

27. The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.

28. It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do. 

29. There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, but after them there will arise 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 be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.

32. And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.

33. Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

34. Let Pharaoh proceed to appiont overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during th eseven plentiful years.

35. And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

36. That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."

 

파라오 왕이 꾼 꿈의 요지는 이렇습니다. 일곱 마리 운운은 햇수를 의미한 고로 요셉이 해석하길 7년의 풍년 뒤에는 7년의 어마무시한 기근이 올 것이기에 그에 대비하라는 암시라고 전합니다. 그러니 능력 있는 관리자를 세워 기근에 철저히 대비해야 한다고 말합니다. 그러자 파라오는 요셉 말대로 따릅니다.

 

하나님의 영 덕분에 총애를 받은 요셉

 

37. This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.

38. And Pharaoh said to his servants, " Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?" 

39. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, " Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.

40. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.

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

42. Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

43. And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, " Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

44. Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, " I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."

45. And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

 

요셉의 탁월한 꿈 해석에 감동한 파라오는 그에 맞는 지휘관은 요셉 니가 딱이다. 그러면서 요셉을 애굽 땅 위에 세우겠다며 왕이 끼던 반지를 요셉에게 주고 금 목걸이도 건네주고 졸지에 고속 승진을 하게 됩니다.  그리고는 이름도 사브낫바네아라고 지어주고는 제사장 보디베라의 딸 아스낫을 아내로 삼게 합니다.

 

 

 

서른 살에 총리가 된 요셉

 

 

46. Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

47. During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly,

48. and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.

49. And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

 

파라오의 꿈에서처럼 첫 7년은 풍년으로 곡식이 넘쳐납니다. 그러나 앞으로가 더 중요할테죠.

 

 기근이 오기 전에 낳은 아들 둘

 

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

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

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

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

54. and the seven years of famine began to come, 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. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, " Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

 

7년 대기근이 오기 전에 요셉은 두 아들을 낳았습니다. 첫아들의 이름은 므낫세라고 지었습니다. 하나님이 내게 내 모든 고난과 시름을 잊게 해 줬다는 의미로 지었습니다. 그러니까 잊음이란 의미로 므낫세를 기억해 둬야겠네요.

그리고 둘째는 에브라임이라고 지었으며 하나님이 요셉이 수고한 땅에서 번성하게 하셨다는 의미로 지었습니다.

 

 

 애굽으로 몰린 사람들

 

 

56. So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

57. Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

 

기근이 찾아오자 요셉은 드디어 자신의 역량을 발휘합니다. 그동안 창고에 산처럼 쌓아둔 곡식을 풀자 이집트의 모든 사람들이 애굽 땅으로 몰려들기 시작합니다.