Genesis 44
1 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.
約瑟吩咐家宰說：「把糧食裝滿這些人的口袋，儘着他們的驢所能馱的，又把各人的銀子放在各人的口袋裏，
2 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.
並將我的銀杯和那少年人糴糧的銀子一同裝在他的口袋裏。」家宰就照約瑟所說的話行了；
3 As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent off along with their donkeys.
天一亮就打發那些人帶着驢走了。
4 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?
他們出城走了不遠，約瑟對家宰說：「起來，追那些人去，追上了就對他們說：『你們為甚麼以惡報善呢？
5 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.'"
這不是我主人飲酒的杯嗎？豈不是他占卜用的嗎？你們這樣行是作惡了。』」
6 And he caught up with them and spoke these words to them.
家宰追上他們，將這些話對他們說了。
7 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.
他們回答說：「我主為甚麼說這樣的話呢？你僕人斷不能做這樣的事。
8 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?
你看，我們從前在口袋裏所見的銀子，尚且從迦南地帶來還你，我們怎能從你主人家裏偷竊金銀呢？
9 With whomever of your servants it is found, he must die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."
你僕人中無論在誰那裏搜出來，就叫他死，我們也作我主的奴僕。」
10 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."
家宰說：「現在就照你們的話行吧！在誰那裏搜出來，誰就作我的奴僕；其餘的都沒有罪。」
11 Then they hurried, and each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
於是他們各人急忙把口袋卸在地下，各人打開口袋。
12 And he searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
家宰就搜查，從年長的起到年幼的為止，那杯竟在便雅憫的口袋裏搜出來。
13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
他們就撕裂衣服，各人把馱子抬在驢上，回城去了。
14 So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
猶大和他弟兄們來到約瑟的屋中，約瑟還在那裏，他們就在他面前俯伏於地。
15 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?"
約瑟對他們說：「你們做的是甚麼事呢？你們豈不知像我這樣的人必能占卜嗎？」
16 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."
猶大說：「我們對我主說甚麼呢？還有甚麼話可說呢？我們怎能自己表白出來呢？上帝已經查出僕人的罪孽了。我們與那在他手中搜出杯來的都是我主的奴僕。」
17 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."
約瑟說：「我斷不能這樣行！在誰的手中搜出杯來，誰就作我的奴僕；至於你們，可以平平安安地上你們父親那裏去。」
18 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.
猶大挨近他，說：「我主啊，求你容僕人說一句話給我主聽，不要向僕人發烈怒，因為你如同法老一樣。
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'
我主曾問僕人們說：『你們有父親有兄弟沒有？』
20 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.'
我們對我主說：『我們有父親，已經年老，還有他老年所生的一個小孩子。他哥哥死了，他母親只撇下他一人，他父親疼愛他。』
21 Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, so that I can see him myself.'
你對僕人說：『把他帶到我這裏來，叫我親眼看看他。』
22 And we said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
我們對我主說：『童子不能離開他父親，若是離開，他父親必死。』
23 But you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
你對僕人說：『你們的小兄弟若不與你們一同下來，你們就不得再見我的面。』
24 And it happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
我們上到你僕人－我們父親那裏，就把我主的話告訴了他。
25 But our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
我們的父親說：『你們再去給我糴些糧來。』
26 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.'
我們就說：『我們不能下去。我們的小兄弟若和我們同往，我們就可以下去。因為，小兄弟若不與我們同往，我們必不得見那人的面。』
27 Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
你僕人－我父親對我們說：『你們知道我的妻子給我生了兩個兒子。
28 And the one disappeared from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces." And I haven't seen him since.
一個離開我出去了；我說他必是被撕碎了，直到如今我也沒有見他。
29 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)
現在你們又要把這個帶去離開我，倘若他遭害，那便是你們使我白髮蒼蒼、悲悲慘慘地下陰間去了。』 (Sheol h7585)
30 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,
我父親的命與這童子的命相連。如今我回到你僕人－我父親那裏，若沒有童子與我們同在，
31 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)
我們的父親見沒有童子，他就必死。這便是我們使你僕人－我們的父親白髮蒼蒼、悲悲慘慘地下陰間去了。 (Sheol h7585)
32 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.'
因為僕人曾向我父親為這童子作保，說：『我若不帶他回來交給父親，我便在父親面前永遠擔罪。』
33 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.
現在求你容僕人住下，替這童子作我主的奴僕，叫童子和他哥哥們一同上去。
34 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."
若童子不和我同去，我怎能上去見我父親呢？恐怕我看見災禍臨到我父親身上。」
