參考版本 AFV  A  Faithful Version 的希臘文 2009版本    

耶和華的事，不謀利沒有版權

1. Now after these things it came to pass that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

2. And Pharaoh was angry against two of his officials, against the chief of the cupbearers and against the chief of the bakers.

3. And he put them under guard in the house of the chief of the executioners, into the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

4. And the chief of the executioners put Joseph in charge of them, and he served them. And they continued for days under guard.

5. And they dreamed a dream, both of them—each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

6. And when Joseph came to them in the morning and looked upon them, and behold, they were sad.

7. And he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him under guard in his lord’s house, saying, “Why are your faces sad today?”

8. And they said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Now tell it to me.”

 (A Faithful Version)

1. 約瑟在監有一段時間。酒政和膳長開罪了埃及王。

2. 這埃及法老對兩臣僕發怒。

3. 把他倆送到管理刑事的長官的牢裡，是約瑟被囚的地方。

4. 這位長官將他們交由約瑟管理。約瑟用服事的態度看待他們。他們在牢中過了好些日子。

5. 某夜，酒政和膳長，在牢中，二人各自都做了一個夢。

7. 約瑟發覺一事，去問守衛的侍從：這二位今天為何滿臉愁容？

8. 侍衛回答：他們都各自做了一個夢，無人能解。約瑟去問當事人耶和華沒有給你們解釋？可否把這夢告訴我？

做夢這事，在詮釋信仰上很少提及，也許是這方面的論述和研究都比較少，看來也不是神學要急於探索的課題，少被提及是可以理解。在雅各夢見天梯，這方面的研究和叙事一直都有，重點各有不同。這處對天梯這事解釋為耶和華親自開啟一道與人相通的渠道，人是可以真接不用間接去理解祂的心意，因為人人不同，直接最為親切而且準確。

直接溝通的渠道有可能是一種感應，也有可能是在人的夢境當中呈現出來。緣因也不複雜，祂是無因所不知、無所不能更是無處不在。對夢境這事，約瑟似乎有認識，也許是雅各的拉仔，甚是喜歡的緣故，相信曾將他夢過的事與他分享。他自己也許有過夢的遭遇也不定。為此一聽到別人有夢，就去為人解夢，說明他對夢有強烈的興趣。

夢境這事，近代有研究，說夢是有真實的基礎，不是無中生有，而是日有觀察便夜有所夢。有記得或無從記起，都是有其緣因。以下提供參考的資料：

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biocentrism/202108/dreams-are-more-real-anyone-thought

內文有提及：夢能夠解開的秘密最終源自於一個基本事實: 現實是一個涉及我們―有意識的觀察者的過程。我們認為日常世界“在那裡”比我們夢想的世界更真實或更獨立,我們在它的出現中所扮演的角色較小。然而最近的研究表明,日常現實與夢境一樣依賴觀察者。

The genesis of the dream realm begins with the simple fact that all organisms sleep. Sleep consists of periods of dreams, called REM sleep, and also of periods without dreams, non-REM. When we awaken we often remember our dreams, but we have no memories of whatever was going on during the non-REM period of sleep. That’s because, during a non-REM period, the wave packet is so widely spread that most of its branches are decoupled from each other, with no interactions or entanglement between them.

夢是可以是耶和華與人溝通的方式之一。夢境成真有何能，這天梯的事件。也許不單只有雅各和約瑟會經歷，你也可以，只是你沒有這習慣。心靈溝通的可能是因為人有靈在，是耶和華吹進，能不能溝通，在於人的心靈的狀況而定，例如有沒有被外物遮掩，約翰在福音書上就明確指出，人會被自己蒙閉。心清的人得見祂，耶穌在八福說的。有同感也為此去作見證，多分享。