创世记 42
1 雅各见埃及有粮，就对儿子们说：“你们为什么彼此观望呢？
And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?
2 我听见埃及有粮，你们可以下去，从那里为我们籴些来，使我们可以存活，不至于死。”
I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
3 于是，约瑟的十个哥哥都下埃及籴粮去了。
So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
4 但约瑟的兄弟便雅悯，雅各没有打发他和哥哥们同去，因为雅各说：“恐怕他遭害。”
Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
5 来籴粮的人中有以色列的儿子们，因为迦南地也有饥荒。
And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
6 当时治理埃及地的是约瑟；粜粮给那地众民的就是他。约瑟的哥哥们来了，脸伏于地，向他下拜。
And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,
7 约瑟看见他哥哥们，就认得他们，却装作生人，向他们说些严厉话，问他们说：“你们从哪里来？”他们说：“我们从迦南地来籴粮。”
And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.
8 约瑟认得他哥哥们，他们却不认得他。
And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
9 约瑟想起从前所做的那两个梦，就对他们说：“你们是奸细，来窥探这地的虚实。”
And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.
10 他们对他说：“我主啊，不是的。仆人们是籴粮来的。
But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.
11 我们都是一个人的儿子，是诚实人；仆人们并不是奸细。”
We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
12 约瑟说：“不然，你们必是窥探这地的虚实来的。”
And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
13 他们说：“仆人们本是弟兄十二人，是迦南地一个人的儿子，顶小的现今在我们的父亲那里，有一个没有了。”
But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.
14 约瑟说：“我才说你们是奸细，这话实在不错。
He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.
15 我指着法老的性命起誓，若是你们的小兄弟不到这里来，你们就不得出这地方，从此就可以把你们证验出来了。
I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
16 须要打发你们中间一个人去，把你们的兄弟带来。至于你们，都要囚在这里，好证验你们的话真不真，若不真，我指着法老的性命起誓，你们一定是奸细。”
Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.
17 于是约瑟把他们都下在监里三天。
So he put them in prison three days.
18 到第三天，约瑟对他们说：“我是敬畏 神的；你们照我的话行就可以存活。
And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
19 你们如果是诚实人，可以留你们中间的一个人囚在监里，但你们可以带着粮食回去，救你们家里的饥荒。
If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
20 把你们的小兄弟带到我这里来，如此，你们的话便有证据，你们也不至于死。”他们就照样而行。
And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
21 他们彼此说：“我们在兄弟身上实在有罪。他哀求我们的时候，我们见他心里的愁苦，却不肯听，所以这场苦难临到我们身上。”
And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
22 吕便说：“我岂不是对你们说过，不可伤害那孩子吗？只是你们不肯听，所以流他血的罪向我们追讨。”
And Ruben one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy: and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.
23 他们不知道约瑟听得出来，因为在他们中间用通事传话。
And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.
24 约瑟转身退去，哭了一场，又回来对他们说话，就从他们中间挑出西缅来，在他们眼前把他捆绑。
And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning he spoke to them.
25 约瑟吩咐人把粮食装满他们的器具，把各人的银子归还在各人的口袋里，又给他们路上用的食物，人就照他的话办了。
And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man’s money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.
26 他们就把粮食驮在驴上，离开那里去了。
But they having loaded their asses with the corn, went their way.
27 到了住宿的地方，他们中间有一个人打开口袋，要拿料喂驴，才看见自己的银子仍在口袋里，
And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack’s mouth;
28 就对弟兄们说：“我的银子归还了，看哪，仍在我口袋里！”他们就提心吊胆，战战兢兢地彼此说：“这是 神向我们做什么呢？”
And said to his brethren: My money is given me again, behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?
29 他们来到迦南地、他们的父亲雅各那里，将所遭遇的事都告诉他，说：
And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:
30 “那地的主对我们说严厉的话，把我们当作窥探那地的奸细。
The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.
31 我们对他说：‘我们是诚实人，并不是奸细。
And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.
32 我们本是弟兄十二人，都是一个父亲的儿子，有一个没有了，顶小的如今同我们的父亲在迦南地。’
We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.
33 那地的主对我们说：‘若要我知道你们是诚实人，可以留下你们中间的一个人在我这里，你们可以带着粮食回去，救你们家里的饥荒。
And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways.
34 把你们的小兄弟带到我这里来，我便知道你们不是奸细，乃是诚实人。这样，我就把你们的弟兄交给你们，你们也可以在这地做买卖。’”
And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.
35 后来他们倒口袋，不料，各人的银包都在口袋里；他们和父亲看见银包就都害怕。
When they had told this, they poured out their corn and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being astonished together,
36 他们的父亲雅各对他们说：“你们使我丧失我的儿子：约瑟没有了，西缅也没有了，你们又要将便雅悯带去；这些事都归到我身上了。”
Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.
37 吕便对他父亲说：“我若不带他回来交给你，你可以杀我的两个儿子。只管把他交在我手里，我必带他回来交给你。”
And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.
But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to hell. (Sheol h7585)
