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١ 1 وَعِنْدَمَا رَأَى يَعْقُوبُ أَنَّ الْقَمْحَ مُتَوَافِرٌ فِي مِصْرَ، قَالَ لأَبْنَائِهِ: «مَا بَالُكُمْ تَنْظُرُونَ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ؟

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

٢ 2 لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ أَنَّ الْقَمْحَ مُتَوَافِرٌ فِي مِصْرَ. فَانْحَدِرُوا إِلَى هُنَاكَ وَاشْتَرُوا لَنَا قَمْحاً لِنَبْقَى عَلَى قَيْدِ الْحَيَاةِ وَلا نَمُوتَ».

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

٣ 3 فَذَهَبَ عَشَرَةٌ مِنْ إِخْوَةِ يُوسُفَ لِيَشْتَرُوا قَمْحاً مِنْ مِصْرَ،

Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

٤ 4 أَمَّا بَنْيَامِينُ أَخُو يُوسُفَ فَلَمْ يُرْسِلْهُ يَعْقُوبُ مَعَ إِخْوَتِهِ خَوْفاً مِنْ أَنْ يَنَالَهُ مَكْرُوهٌ.

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

٥ 5 فَقَدِمَ أَبْنَاءُ إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى مِصْرَ مَعَ جُمْلَةِ الْقَادِمِينَ لِيَشْتَرُوا قَمْحاً، لأَنَّ الْمَجَاعَةَ كَانَتْ قَدْ أَصَابَتْ أَرْضَ كَنْعَانَ أَيْضاً.

The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

٦ 6 وَكَانَ يُوسُفُ هُوَ الْمُتَسَلِّطُ عَلَى مِصْرَ، وَالْقَائِمُ عَلَى بَيْعِ الْقَمْحِ لأَهْلِهَا جَمِيعاً. فَأَقْبَلَ إِخْوَةُ يُوسُفَ وَسَجَدُوا لَهُ بِوُجُوهِهِمْ إِلَى الأَرْضِ.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

٧ 7 فَلَمَّا رَآهُمْ عَرَفَهُمْ، وَلَكِنَّهُ تَنَكَّرَ لَهُمْ وَخَاطَبَهُمْ بِجَفَاءٍ وَسَأَلَهُمْ: «مِنْ أَيْنَ جِئْتُمْ؟» فَأَجَابُوهُ: «مِنْ أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ لِنَشْتَرِيَ طَعَاماً».

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

٨ 8 وَمَعَ أَنَّ يُوسُفَ عَرَفَهُمْ، إِلّا أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهُ.

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

٩ 9 ثُمَّ تَذَكَّرَ يُوسُفُ أَحْلامَهُ الَّتِي حَلَمَهَا بِشَأْنِهِمْ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «أَنْتُمْ جَوَاسِيسُ، وَقَدْ جِئْتُمْ لاكْتِشَافِ ثُغُورِنَا غَيْرِ الْمَحْمِيَّةِ»

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

١٠ 10 فَقَالُوا لَهُ: «لا يَا سَيِّدِي إِنَّمَا قَدِمَ عَبِيدُكَ لِشِرَاءِ الطَّعَامِ،

They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

١١ 11 فَنَحْنُ كُلُّنَا أَبْنَاءُ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ، نَحْنُ أُمَنَاءُ وَلَيْسَ عَبِيدُكَ جَوَاسِيسَ».

We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

١٢ 12 وَلَكِنَّهُ قَالَ لَهُمْ: «لا! أَنْتُمْ قَدْ جِئْتُمْ لاكْتِشَافِ ثُغُورِنَا غَيْرِ الْمَحْمِيَّةِ»

He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

١٣ 13 فَأَجَابُوهُ: «إِنَّ عَبِيدَكَ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَخاً، أَبْنَاءُ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ مُقِيمٍ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ. وَقَدْ بَقِيَ أَخُونَا الصَّغِيرُ عِنْدَ أَبِينَا الْيَوْمَ، وَالآخَرُ مَفْقُودٌ».

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

١٤ 14 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «إِنَّ الأَمْرَ كَمَا قُلْتُ لَكُمْ! أَنْتُمْ جَوَاسِيسُ.

Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

١٥ 15 وَحَيَاةِ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تُغَادِرُوا هُنَا حَتَّى تَأْتُوا بِأَخِيكُمُ الأَصْغَرِ، وَبِذَلِكَ تُثْبِتُونَ صِدْقَكُمْ.

By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

١٦ 16 أَوْفِدُوا وَاحِداً مِنْكُمْ لِيَأْتِيَ بِأَخِيكُمْ، أَمَّا بَقِيَّتُكُمْ فَتَمْكُثُونَ فِي السِّجْنِ حَتَّى تَثْبُتَ صِحَّةُ كَلامِكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ. وَإلَّا فَوَحَيَاةِ فِرْعَوْنَ أَنْتُمْ لَسْتُمْ سِوَى جَوَاسِيسَ».

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”

١٧ 17 وَطَرَحَهُمْ فِي السِّجْنِ مَعاً ثَلاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ.

He put them all together into custody for three days.

١٨ 18 وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ قَالَ لَهُمْ: «افْعَلُوا مَا أَطْلُبُهُ مِنْكُمْ فَتَحْيَوْا، فَأَنَا رَجُلٌ أَتَّقِي اللهَ.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

١٩ 19 إِنْ كُنْتُمْ حَقّاً صَادِقِينَ فَلْيَبْقَ وَاحِدٌ مِنْكُمْ رَهِينَةً، بَيْنَمَا يَأْخُذُ بَقِيَّتُكُمُ الْقَمْحَ وَيَنْطَلِقُونَ إِلَى بُيُوتِكُمُ الْجَائِعَةِ.

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

٢٠ 20 وَلَكِنْ إِيتُونِي بِأَخِيكُمُ الأَصْغَرِ فَأَتَحَقَّقَ بِذَلِكَ مِنْ صِدْقِكُمْ وَلا تَمُوتُوا». فَوَافَقُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ.

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you will not die.” They did so.

٢١ 21 وَقَالُوا: «حَقّاً إِنَّنَا أَذْنَبْنَا فِي حَقِّ أَخِينَا. لَقَدْ رَأَيْنَا ضِيقَةَ نَفْسِهِ عِنْدَمَا اسْتَرْحَمَنَا فَلَمْ نَسْمَعْ لَهُ. لِذَلِكَ أَصَابَتْنَا هَذِهِ الضِّيقَةُ»

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

٢٢ 22 فَقَالَ رَأُوبَيْنُ: «أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَا تَجْنُوا عَلَيْهِ فَلَمْ تَسْمَعُوا؟ وَالآنَ هَا نَحْنُ مُطَالَبُونَ بِدَمِهِ».

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did not I tell you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the child,’ and you would not listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

٢٣ 23 وَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ يُوسُفَ كَانَ فَاهِماً حَدِيثَهُمْ، لأَنَّهُ كَانَ يُخَاطِبُهُمْ عَنْ طَرِيقِ مُتَرْجِمٍ.

They did not know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

٢٤ 24 فَتَحَوَّلَ عَنْهُمْ وَبَكَى، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَيْهِمْ وَخَاطَبَهُمْ، وَأَخَذَ شِمْعُونَ وَقَيَّدَهُ أَمَامَ عُيُونِهِمْ.

He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

٢٥ 25 ثُمَّ أَمَرَ يُوسُفُ مُوَظَّفِيهِ أَنْ يَمْلَأُوا أَكْيَاسَهُمْ بِالْقَمْحِ، وَأَنْ يَرُدُّوا فِضَّةَ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ إِلَى كِيسِهِ، وَأَنْ يُعْطُوهُمْ زَاداً لِلطَّرِيقِ. فَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ.

Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

٢٦ 26 فَحَمَّلُوا حَمِيرَهُمُ الْقَمْحَ وَانْطَلَقُوا مِنْ هُنَاكَ.

They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

٢٧ 27 وَحِينَ فَتَحَ أَحَدُهُمْ كِيسَهُ فِي الْخَانِ لِيَعْلِفَ حِمَارَهُ، لَمَحَ فِضَّتَهُ لأَنَّهَا كَانَتْ مَوْضُوعَةً فِي فَمِ الْكِيسِ.

As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

٢٨ 28 فَقَالَ لإِخْوَتِهِ: «لَقَدْ رُدَّتْ إِلَيَّ فِضَّتِي، انْظُرُوا هَا هِيَ فِي كِيسِي». فَغَاصَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ، وَتَطَلَّعَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ مُرْتَعِدِينَ وَقَالُوا: «مَا هَذَا الَّذِي فَعَلَهُ اللهُ بِنَا؟».

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

٢٩ 29 وَعِنْدَمَا قَدِمُوا عَلَى أَبِيهِمْ يَعْقُوبَ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ قَصُّوا عَلَيْهِ مَا حَلَّ بِهِمْ، وَقَالُوا:

They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

٣٠ 30 «الرَّجُلُ الْمُتَسَلِّطُ عَلَى مِصْرَ خَاطَبَنَا بِجَفَاءٍ، وَظَنَّ أَنَّنَا جَوَاسِيسُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ،

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

٣١ 31 فَقُلْنَا لَهُ: نَحْنُ أُمَنَاءُ وَلَسْنَا جَوَاسِيسَ.

We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

٣٢ 32 نَحْنُ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَخاً أَبْنَاءُ أَبِينَا. أَحَدُنَا مَفْقُودٌ، وَالأَصْغَرُ بَقِيَ الْيَوْمَ مَعَ أَبِينَا فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ.

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

٣٣ 33 فَقَالَ لَنَا الرَّجُلُ سَيِّدُ الْبِلادِ: لِكَيْ أَتَحَقَّقَ مِنْ كَوْنِكُمْ أُمَنَاءَ. دَعُوا أَخاً وَاحِداً مِنْكُمْ عِنْدِي رَهِينَةً وَخُذُوا طَعَاماً لِبُيُوتِكُمُ الْجَائِعَةِ وَامْضُوا،

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

٣٤ 34 ثُمَّ أَحْضِرُوا لِي أَخَاكُمُ الأَصْغَرَ، وَبَذَلِكَ أَعْرِفُ أَنَّكُمْ لَسْتُمْ جَوَاسِيسَ بَلْ قَوْماً أُمَنَاءَ، فَأُطْلِقَ لَكُمْ أَخَاكُمْ وَتَتَّجِرُونَ فِي الأَرْضِ».

Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”

٣٥ 35 وَإِذْ شَرَعُوا فِي تَفْرِيغِ أَكْيَاسِهِمْ وَجَدَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ فِضَّتَهُ فِي كِيسِهِ، وَمَا إِنْ رَأَوْا هُمْ وَأَبُوهُمْ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى اسْتَبَدَّ بِهِمِ الْخَوْفُ.

As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

٣٦ 36 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ أَبُوهُمْ: «لَقَدْ أَثْكَلْتُمُونِي أَوْلادِي. يُوسُفُ مَفْقُودٌ، وَشِمْعُونُ مَفْقُودٌ، وَهَا أَنْتُمْ تَأْخُذُونَ بِنْيَامِينَ بَعِيداً! كُلُّ هَذِهِ الدَّوَاهِي حَلَّتْ بِي!»

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

٣٧ 37 فَقَالَ لَهُ رَأُوبَيْنُ: «اقْتُلِ ابْنَيَّ إِنْ لَمْ أَرْجِعْ بِهِ إِلَيْكَ. اعْهَدْ بِهِ إِلَيَّ وَأَنَا أَرُدُّهُ إِلَيْكَ».

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I do not bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

٣٨ 38 فَقَالَ: «لَنْ يَذْهَبَ ابْنِي مَعَكُمْ، فَقَدْ مَاتَ أَخُوهُ، وَهُوَ وَحْدَهُ بَاقٍ. فَإِنْ نَالَهُ مَكْرُوهٌ فِي الطَّرِيقِ الَّتِي تَذْهَبُونَ فِيهَا، فَإِنَّكُمْ تُنْزِلُونَ شَيْبَتِي بِحُزْنٍ إِلَى قَبْرِي». (Sheol h7585)

He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol (Sheol h7585)."