Genesis 42
1 Karon nakita ni Jacob nga may trigo sa Egipto, ug nag-ingon siya sa iyang mga anak: Nganong nagatinan-away kamo sa usa ug usa?
When someone told Jacob that there was grain in Egypt that people could buy, he said to his sons, “(Why do you just sit there looking at each other?/Do not just sit there looking at each other!) [RHQ] We need some grain!”
2 Ug nag-ingon siya: Ania karon, nakadungog ako nga sa Egipto adunay trigo. Lumugsong kamo ngadto, ug pumalit kamo ug makaon didto alang kanato, aron kita mabuhi, ug dili mangamatay.
He said to them, “Someone told me that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, in order that we will not die!”
3 Ug ang napulo ka mga magsoon ni Jose milugsong aron sa pagpalit ug trigo gikan sa Egipto.
So Joseph’s ten [older] brothers went down to Egypt to buy some grain.
4 Apan si Benjamin nga igsoon ni Jose wala ipadala ni Jacob uban sa iyang mga igsoon, kay, matud niya, tingali unya may moabut kaniya nga kadautan.
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s [younger] brother, to go with the others, because he was afraid/worried that something terrible might happen to him like what happened to Joseph.
5 Ug miadto ang mga anak ni Israel aron sa pagpalit ug trigo sa taliwala niadtong uban nga miadto; kay ang gutom didto sa yuta sa Canaan.
So Jacob’s other sons went down from Canaan to Egypt to buy grain, and others from there went too, because there was a famine in Canaan also.
6 Ug si Jose maoy gobernador sa yuta; siya mao ang nagbaligya sa kalan-on sa tanang katawohan sa yuta. Ug ang mga igsoong lalake ni Jose nangabut, ug sa ilang kaugalingon mingyukbo kaniya uban ang ilang mga nawong ngadto sa yuta.
At that time Joseph was the governor of Egypt. He was the one who sold grain to people who came from all over Egypt and from many other countries [HYP] to buy grain. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, [they were told that it was necessary for them to talk with Joseph. So they went to him and] prostrated themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
7 Ug si Jose nakakita sa iyang mga igsoon, ug siya nakaila kanila; apan siya wala magpaila kanila, ug nagsulti kanila sa mahait, ug nag-ingon kanila: Diin kamo gikan? Sila mingtubag: Gikan sa yuta sa Canaan aron sa pagpalit sa kalan-on.
As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them. But he pretended that he did not know them. He spoke harshly to them, saying, “Where do you come from?” One of them replied, “We have come from Canaan, to buy some grain.”
8 Ug si Jose nakaila sa iyang mga igsoon, apan sila wala makaila kaniya.
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
9 Ug nahinumdum si Jose sa mga damgo nga iyang gidamgo mahitungod kanila, ug siya miingon kanila: Kamo mga tiktik; mianhi kamo aron sa pagtan-aw nga walay salipud ang yuta.
And then Joseph remembered what he had dreamed about them many years previously. [But he decided not to tell them yet that he was their younger brother]. He said to them, “You are spies! You have come to find out whether we will be able to defend ourselves [if you attack us]!”
10 Ug sila mitubag kaniya: Dili intawon, ginoo ko; kondili ang imong mga ulipon mianhi sa pagpalit ug makaon.
One of them replied, “No, sir! We have come to buy grain.
11 Kaming tanan mga anak nga lalake sa usa ka tawo; kami mga tawo nga matuod: ang imong mga ulipon dili gayud mga tiktik.
We are all sons of one man. We are honest men, not spies.”
12 Ug siya miingon kanila: Dili; kondili sa pagtan-aw gayud sa yuta nga walay salipud mianhi kamo.
He said to them, “[I do not believe you]. You have come just to see whether we would be able to defend ourselves if we were attacked!”
13 Ug sila mitubag: Kami nga imong mga ulipon napulo ug duha kami nga mga magsoon, mga anak nga lalake sa usa ka tawo sa Canaan; ug, ania karon, ang kamanghuran niining adlawa atua kauban sa among amahan ug ang usa wala na.
But one of them replied, “No, that is not true! Originally there were twelve of us who were brothers, the sons of one man. Our younger brother is with our father. One [younger] brother has died. [EUP]”
14 Ug si Jose miingon kanila: Mao kana nga giingon ko kamo, sa pag-ingon: Mga tiktik kamo.
Joseph replied, “[You are lying! I think] it is just as I told you. You are spies!
15 Tungod niini pagasusihon kamo: Tungod sa kinabuhi ni Faraon, dili kamo makapahawa dinhi, gawas kong mahaanhi dinhi ang inyong kamanghuran nga lalake.
But this is how I will determine whether what you are saying is true. I think that as surely as the king lives, you are spies. And you will not leave this place until your youngest brother comes here!
16 Sugoa ang usa kaninyo, ug ipakuha ang inyong igsoon nga lalake; ug pabilin kamo nga mga binilanggo, aron ang inyong mga pulong mapamatud-an, kong adunay kamatuoran kaninyo; kay kong dili, tungod sa kinabuhi ni Faraon kamo mga tiktik gayud.
Send one of your group to go and get your younger brother and bring him here. I will put the rest of you in prison, in order that I may test what you have said to find out whether what you are telling me is true. If the one who goes does not bring your younger brother here, then, just as surely as the king lives, it will be clear that you are lying and that you are spies.”
17 Ug sila gitipon niya nga binantayan sulod sa totolo ka adlaw.
Then Joseph put them all in prison for three days.
18 Ug sa ikatolo ka adlaw si Jose miingon kanila: Buhaton ninyo kini, ug mabuhi kamo: kay ako mahadlok sa Dios.
On the third day, Joseph went to the prison and said to them, “I am a man who fears that God [will punish me if I do not do what I promise]. So do what I tell you, and I will spare your lives.
19 Kong kamo mga tawo nga matuod, pasagdi ninyo nga ang usa sa inyong mga igsoon magapabilin nga binantayan sa balay nga gibilanggoan kaninyo; apan panlakaw kamo, ug dad-on ninyo ang trigo nga alang sa gutom sa inyong mga panimalay.
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, and the rest of you can take some grain back to your families who are very hungry because of the famine.
20 Ug dad-on ninyo dinhi kanako ang inyong igsoon nga lalake nga kamanghuran; sa ingon niana, pagapamatud-an ang inyong mga pulong, ug dili kamo mangamatay. Ug gibuhat nila ang ingon.
But if you come back here again, you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that you can prove that what you told me is true, and as a result I will not have you executed.” So they agreed to do that.
21 Ug nanag-ingon sila ang usa sa usa: Matuod gayud nga kita nakasala batok sa atong igsoon nga lalake, nga niana hingkit-an ta ang kalisdanan sa iyang kalag sa pagpangaliyupo niya kanato, ug wala ta pagpatalinghugi siya tungod niana miabut sa ibabaw kanato kini nga kalisdanan.
They said to each other, “It is surely because of what we did to our [younger] brother that (we are being punished/God is punishing us)! We saw that he [SYN] was very distressed when he pleaded with us not to harm him. But we did not pay any attention to him, and that is why we are having this trouble!”
22 Ug si Ruben mitubag kanila nga nagaingon: Wala ba ako magsulti kaninyo sa pag-ingon: Ayaw kamo pagpakasala batok sa bata ug kamo wala gayud magpatalinghug? Busa usab, ania karon, ang iyang dugo ginakinahanglan.
Reuben said to them, “I told you not to harm the boy [RHQ], but you did not pay attention to what I said! Now we are being (paid back/punished) for killing him [MTY]!”
23 Ug sila wala manghibalo nga si Jose nakasabut kanila kay dihay maghuhubad sa taliwala nila.
While they were talking with Joseph, they were speaking through (an interpreter/someone who knew their language and the Egyptian language), but when they said these things among themselves, they were speaking in their own language, and they did not know that Joseph could understand their language, and that he could understand what they were saying.
24 Ug siya mibulag kanila ug mihilak; sa tapus niini, siya mibalik kanila, ug siya misulti kanila, ug iyang gikuha si Simeon, ug iyang gigapus siya sa atubangan sa ilang mga mata.
[Because of what they said, Joseph realized that they admitted that what they had done to him many years previously was wrong]. He could not keep from crying, [and he did not want them to see him crying], so he left them and went outside the room and began to cry. But then he returned to them and talked to them again. Then he took Simeon, and while they were watching, he told his servants to tie him up. He left Simeon in the prison and told the others that they could go.
25 Unya si Jose nagsugo nga pun-on nila ang ilang mga sudlanan sa trigo, ug ipauli ang salapi sa tagsatagsa nga igabutang sa iyang baluyot, ug hatagan sila ug balon alang sa ilang panaw: ug mao kini ang gibuhat kanila.
Joseph told his servants to fill the men’s sacks with grain, but he also told them to put the money that each one had paid for the grain in the top of his sack. He also told them to give them food to eat along the way. After the servants did those things for Joseph’s older brothers,
26 Ug ilang gilulan ang ilang trigo sa ilang mga asno, ug nanglakaw sila gikan didto.
his older brothers loaded the sacks of grain on their donkeys and left.
27 Ug sa diha nga ang usa kanila miabli sa iyang baluyot aron sa paghatag ug kompay sa iyang asno didto sa abutanan, hingkit-an niya ang iyang salapi nga diha sa baba sa iyang baluyot.
At the place where they stopped to sleep that night, one of them opened his sack to get some grain for his donkey. He was amazed to see his money in the top of the sack.
28 Ug miingon siya sa iyang mga igsoon: Ang salapi ko giuli kanako, ug tan-awa, ania pa sa akong baluyot. Unya nahakugmat ang ilang kasingkasing, ug mingliso sila nga nagakurog ang usa ngadto sa usa kanila, nga nanag-ingon: Unsa ba kini nga gibuhat sa Dios kanato?
He exclaimed to his brothers, “Someone has returned my money! Here it is in my sack!” They started shaking with fear, and said to each other, “What is this that God has done to us?”
29 Ug mingdangat sila kang Jacob nga ilang amahan sa yuta sa Canaan, ug siya gisuginlan nila sa tanan nga nahitabo kanila, nga nagaingon:
When they returned to their father in Canaan land, they told him all that had happened to them. One of them said,
30 Ang tawo, ang ginoo sa yuta, nagsulti kanamo sa mahait gayud, ug kami giisip niya nga mga tiktik niadtong yutaa.
“The man who governs the whole land of Egypt talked very harshly to us. He acted toward us as though we were spying on his country.
31 Ug kami miingon kaniya: Kami mga tawo nga matuod, dili gayud kami mga tiktik:
But we told him, ‘We are honest men! We are not spies.
32 Kami napulo ug duha ka mga magsoon nga mga anak nga lalake sa among amahan; ang usa wala na, ug ang kamanghuran atua karong adlawa sa among amahan sa yuta sa Canaan.
Originally there were twelve of us who were brothers, the sons of one father. One has died [EUP], and our youngest brother is with our father in Canaan.’
33 Ug ang tawo, ang ginoo sa yuta miingon kanamo: Niini pagailhon ko kamo nga mga tawo nga matuod: ibilin ninyo kanako ang usa sa inyong mga igsoon, ug dad-a ninyo ang makaon alang sa gutom sa inyong mga panimalay, ug panlakaw kamo.
The man who is the governor of the land [did not believe us], so he said to us, ‘This is how I will know if you are truly honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me. Then the rest of you can take some grain for your families that are starving from hunger and go.
34 Ug dad-on ninyo nganhi kanako ang inyong igsoon nga kamanghuran, unya masayud ako nga kamo dili mga tiktik, kondili mga tawo nga matuod: sa ingon niini igahatag ko kaninyo ang inyong igsoon, ug magapatigayon kamo sa yuta.
But when you return, bring your youngest brother to me, in order that I will know that you are not spies, but instead, that you are honest men. Then I will release your brother for you. And then you can buy whatever you want in this country.’”
35 Ug nahatabo nga sa gihubo nila ang ilang mga baluyot, ania karon, nga sa baluyot sa tagsatagsa didto ang ilang putos sa salapi: ug sa diha nga sila ug ang ilang amahan nakakita sa ilang mga putos sa salapi, nangahadlok sila.
As they were emptying their sacks, they were surprised that in each man’s sack was his pouch of money! When they and their father saw all the pouches of money, they were frightened.
36 Unya ang ilang amahan nga si Jacob miingon kanila: Ginakuha ninyo kanako ang akong mga anak: si Jose nawala na, ug si Simeon wala na usab, ug si Benjamin pagadad-on ninyo; batok kanako kining tanan nga mga butanga.
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have caused two of my children to be taken from me! Joseph is dead, and Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin from me! It is I who am suffering because of all these things that are happening!”
37 Ug si Ruben misulti sa iyang amahan nga nagaingon: Pamatyon mo ang akong duruha ka mga anak nga lalake, kong siya dili ko igabalik kanimo; itugyan mo siya sa akong kamot, ug siya igauli ko kanimo.
Reuben said to his father, “I will be responsible for Benjamin. [I will take him to Egypt and] bring him back to you. Let me take care of him. If I do not bring Benjamin back to you, you may kill both of my sons.”
38 Ug siya miingon: Dili molugsong ang akong anak nga lalake uban kaninyo; kay ang iyang igsoon patay na, ug siya na lamang ang nahabilin: ug kong mahitabo kaniya ang kadaut sa dalan nga inyong pagalaktan, unya igatunod ninyo ako nga ubanon, nga puno sa kasakit ngadto sa lubnganan. (Sheol h7585)
But Jacob said, “No, I will not let my son go down there with you. His [older] brother is dead, and he is the only [one of my wife Rachel’s] sons who is left! If something harms him while you are traveling, you would cause me, a gray-haired old man, to die because of sorrow.” (Sheol h7585)
