創世記 44
1 然後若瑟吩咐自己的管家說：「將糧食裝滿這些人的布袋，他們能帶多少，就裝多少；將每人的銀錢仍放在他的布袋口處，
Then he instructed the manager of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack.
2 再將我的銀杯和內最年幼購糧的銀錢，一併放在他的布袋口處。」管家就照若瑟吩咐的話做了。
Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain." So he did according to the word that Joseph had told him.
3 清早天一發亮，就遣送這些人帶著他們的驢走了。
As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent off along with their donkeys.
4 他們出了城，還不很遠，若瑟就對他的管家說：「你起身去追趕那些人，追上他們，就對他們說：你們為什麼以惡報善﹖
When they were far from the city, Joseph said to his manager, "Up, go after the men, and when you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?
5 為什麼偷去我的銀杯﹖這杯是我主人為飲酒占卜用的啊! 你們作的實在不對! 」
Why have you stolen my silver cup? Isn't it from this that my lord drinks and by which he indeed uses for divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"
6 管家追上他們，就對他們說了這些話。
And he caught up with them and spoke these words to them.
7 他們回答說：「我主怎麼說些這樣的話﹖你的僕人們決不敢做這樣的事!
But they said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing.
8 你看! 我們在布袋口所發現的銀錢，還從客納罕地帶回來給了你，我們怎能偷你主人家的金銀呢﹖
Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?
9 在你僕人中，不論在誰那裏搜出來，誰就該死，並且我們都該作我主的奴隸。」
With whomever of your servants it is found, he must die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."
10 管家答說：「也好，就照你們的話做；只是在誰那裏搜出來，誰該作我的奴隸；你們其餘的人可自由離去。」
And he said, "Very well, then, it will be as you say. The one with whom it is found will be my slave, but you will be blameless."
11 於是他們各人急忙將自己的布袋卸下，放在地上，各人打開自己的布袋。
Then they hurried, and each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
12 管家便一一搜查，從年長的開始，到年幼的為止；結果那杯在本雅明的布袋裏搜了出來。
And he searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
13 他們遂撕裂了自己的衣服，各人又使驢馱上重載，回城裏去了。
Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
14 猶大和他的兄弟們進了若瑟的家，若瑟還在那裏，他們就在他面前俯伏在地。
So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
15 若瑟對他們說：「你們作的是什麼事﹖難道你們不知道像我這樣的人會占卜嗎﹖」
And Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Didn't you know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?"
16 猶大答說：「我們對我主還能說什麼﹖還有什麼話可說﹖我們如何能表白自己﹖天主已查出了你僕人們的罪惡。我們和在他手裏搜出杯來的，都應作我主的奴隸。」
Then Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we clear ourselves? God has uncovered the guilt of your servants. Look, we are my lord's slaves, both we, and the one in whose possession the cup was found."
17 若瑟答說：「我決不這樣做；在誰手裏搜出杯來，誰就該作我的奴隸；至於你們，都可平安上去，回到你們父親那裏。」
But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose possession the cup was found, he will be my slave. But as for you, go up to your father in peace."
18 猶大近前對若瑟說：「我主，請原諒，容你僕人向我主進一言，請不要對你僕人動怒，因為你原與法郎無異。
Then Judah approached him, and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word in the ears of my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
19 我主以前曾問僕人們說：你們還有父親或兄弟嗎﹖
My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'
20 我們曾回答我主說：還有老父和他老年生的幼兒；他的哥哥死了，他母親只剩下了他一個；為此父親非常疼愛他。
And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child born when he was old, a little one, and his brother is dead, and he is his mother's only child, and his father loves him.'
21 你就對你僕人們說：將他帶到我這裏來，我要親眼看看他。
Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, so that I can see him myself.'
22 我們即對我主說：孩子是不能離開他父親的；如果離開了，他父親必會死去。
And we said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
23 你對你僕人們說：如果你們的小弟弟不同你們一起下來，你們休想再見我的面。
But you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
24 我們一上到你僕人，我父親那裏，就將我主的話告訴了他。
And it happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25 後來我們的父親說：你們再去給我們買點糧食來。
But our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
26 我們答說：我們不能下去；除非我們的小弟弟同我們一起，我們才下去；因為我們的小弟弟不同我們在一起，我們不能見那人的面。
We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down, for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
27 你的僕人，我的父親就對我們說：你們知道，我的妻子給我只生了兩個兒子：
Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28 其中一個離開我出去，我猜想，他是被猛獸撕裂了，到現在，再沒有見到他。
And the one disappeared from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces." And I haven't seen him since.
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
30 現在，如我回到你僕人，我父親那裏，孩童沒有與我們在一起，－－他原與這孩童相依為命，－－
So now, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy's life,
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
32 況且你的僕人曾在我父面前為孩童擔保說：如果我不將他帶回來交給你，我終生在我父前負罪。
For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'
33 現在請讓你的僕人留下，代替孩童給我主為奴，讓孩童跟他哥哥們回去。
So now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy, a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34 如果孩童不與我在一起，我怎能上去見我父親﹖我怕看見我父親遭到不幸! 」
For how will I go up to my father if the boy isn't with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come on my father."
