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

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1. Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan.

2. And behold, they are in the land of Goshen.” And he took some of his brothers, five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

3. And Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”

4. And they said to Pharaoh, “For we have come to live in the land, for your servants have no pasture left for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

5. And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

6. The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and brothers to live in the best of the land; in the land of Goshen let them live. And if you know men of ability among them, then make them overseers of livestock, over what is mine.”

7. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8. And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the years of your life?”

9. And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the years of my life, and I have not attained to the number of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

11. And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.

12. And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number of their children.

 (A Faithful Version)

1. 約瑟把一切安頓，便稟報法老：父親和眾兄弟，並的兄弟們，以及他們畜群和家財等物，都從迦南遷離。

2. 如今到了歌珊。約瑟領著眾兄弟，共五個人齊去晉見法老。

3. 法老問：你們靠什麼為生？眾回：祖先和我們都是畜牧為生。

4. 眾人續說：遷到這地，是迦南遇旱災情況嚴重，無法去放牧，期望可以在歌珊地方繼續。

5. 法老便向約瑟查詢：你的父親和眾兄弟都遷到這裡？

6. 法老見此說，埃及地都屬約瑟你規管，便準他們在歌珊，埃及這一塊最好的地方，繼續放牧。並讓他可以派合適的人選助他管理。

7. 及後，約瑟領著雅各到來，與法老見面，並為法老祝福。

8. 法老問雅各：你今年多大歲數？

9. 雅各說：我人生旅程共一百三十年，在困乏的日子中渡過，遠不及我先祖在世的日子。

10. 雅各為法老祝福後，就退下離去。

11. 約瑟便照法老的吩咐，把他們安置在最好地段，蘭塞。

12. 約瑟從此擔負起照顧一家人的責任，讓父兄們在生活上無後顧之憂。

雅各與這位兒子約瑟，都有一個共同點，靈巧純良。他們都能面對各自不同的處境，展示出求生的能力，用自身的智慧而不是依附於人的規範。華人有個傳統的約束，作為正直的人，就要擔屎都不去省力，這種不靈巧的處理，方是正人君子所為。亞伯拉罕和以撒跟華人傳統的道德要求非常相同，雅各不同，他與耶和華摔跤，那是挑戰，是為自由而戰。他要向耶和華證明一事，人有自由也能自控。人既有選擇，是夏娃作出的決定，是因為夏娃對自己的處境十分明白，那是明白自己本身的局限，有生兒育女的天職，是她不能避免。在自由選擇當中，她才知道自己有權利去選擇如何生活，不被生育所規限。男性相對女性而言有無限的自由。

男性的自由既是無限，就有無窮的可能，他可以用各種方式去滿足個人的私慾。當然有人不選這條放縱私慾之路，因為明白人自身能力可能發揮的力量，是極之大而且可怕。雅各與耶和華角力，是因為看到人用他的極限，處理世界事務時造成的惡果，那是人迫人的世界。就是在世時可以控制自己的私慾，因為有一條天梯，人可以上去避難，得力下來可以面對困境。雅各之前，能領受這樣智慧的有一位，挪亞。他是能在自私的世界當中，唯一相信耶和華又以絕對的態度相信自己，耶和華為他開出一條生路。

約瑟，他在人生中體會到這寶貴的一點人生智慧：靈巧純良，又以此去救家人。

為何華人社會，相信的人救不到家人？因為看不到有一條天梯，就在他頭頂，也不靈巧純良，因為華人的道德要求，迫得人沒有空間也沒有出路，為此陶淵明被迫退出江湖到鄉間作詩，屈原逼得跳河自證。約瑟不同，他不需要向世人證明什麼，自存本身就有影響，救你的免受人間種種約束，靈動於其中，也不失人性的自由，沒有人為的制約，那才是在耶和華中的真自由。

約瑟開創出一條又生又活的信仰之路，認同就多分享。