Genesis 42
1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
| وَعِنْدَمَا رَأَى يَعْقُوبُ أَنَّ الْقَمْحَ مُتَوَافِرٌ فِي مِصْرَ، قَالَ لأَبْنَائِهِ: «مَا بَالُكُمْ تَنْظُرُونَ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ؟ | ١ |
2 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.”
| لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ أَنَّ الْقَمْحَ مُتَوَافِرٌ فِي مِصْرَ. فَانْحَدِرُوا إِلَى هُنَاكَ وَاشْتَرُوا لَنَا قَمْحاً لِنَبْقَى عَلَى قَيْدِ الْحَيَاةِ وَلا نَمُوتَ». | ٢ |
3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
| فَذَهَبَ عَشَرَةٌ مِنْ إِخْوَةِ يُوسُفَ لِيَشْتَرُوا قَمْحاً مِنْ مِصْرَ، | ٣ |
4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
| أَمَّا بَنْيَامِينُ أَخُو يُوسُفَ فَلَمْ يُرْسِلْهُ يَعْقُوبُ مَعَ إِخْوَتِهِ خَوْفاً مِنْ أَنْ يَنَالَهُ مَكْرُوهٌ. | ٤ |
5 The sons of Israel came to buy amongst those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
| فَقَدِمَ أَبْنَاءُ إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى مِصْرَ مَعَ جُمْلَةِ الْقَادِمِينَ لِيَشْتَرُوا قَمْحاً، لأَنَّ الْمَجَاعَةَ كَانَتْ قَدْ أَصَابَتْ أَرْضَ كَنْعَانَ أَيْضاً. | ٥ |
6 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.
| وَكَانَ يُوسُفُ هُوَ الْمُتَسَلِّطُ عَلَى مِصْرَ، وَالْقَائِمُ عَلَى بَيْعِ الْقَمْحِ لأَهْلِهَا جَمِيعاً. فَأَقْبَلَ إِخْوَةُ يُوسُفَ وَسَجَدُوا لَهُ بِوُجُوهِهِمْ إِلَى الأَرْضِ. | ٦ |
7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognised 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.”
| فَلَمَّا رَآهُمْ عَرَفَهُمْ، وَلَكِنَّهُ تَنَكَّرَ لَهُمْ وَخَاطَبَهُمْ بِجَفَاءٍ وَسَأَلَهُمْ: «مِنْ أَيْنَ جِئْتُمْ؟» فَأَجَابُوهُ: «مِنْ أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ لِنَشْتَرِيَ طَعَاماً». | ٧ |
8 Joseph recognised his brothers, but they didn’t recognise him.
| وَمَعَ أَنَّ يُوسُفَ عَرَفَهُمْ، إِلّا أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهُ. | ٨ |
9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamt about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
| ثُمَّ تَذَكَّرَ يُوسُفُ أَحْلامَهُ الَّتِي حَلَمَهَا بِشَأْنِهِمْ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «أَنْتُمْ جَوَاسِيسُ، وَقَدْ جِئْتُمْ لاكْتِشَافِ ثُغُورِنَا غَيْرِ الْمَحْمِيَّةِ» | ٩ |
10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
| فَقَالُوا لَهُ: «لا يَا سَيِّدِي إِنَّمَا قَدِمَ عَبِيدُكَ لِشِرَاءِ الطَّعَامِ، | ١٠ |
11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
| فَنَحْنُ كُلُّنَا أَبْنَاءُ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ، نَحْنُ أُمَنَاءُ وَلَيْسَ عَبِيدُكَ جَوَاسِيسَ». | ١١ |
12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
| وَلَكِنَّهُ قَالَ لَهُمْ: «لا! أَنْتُمْ قَدْ جِئْتُمْ لاكْتِشَافِ ثُغُورِنَا غَيْرِ الْمَحْمِيَّةِ» | ١٢ |
13 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.”
| فَأَجَابُوهُ: «إِنَّ عَبِيدَكَ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَخاً، أَبْنَاءُ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ مُقِيمٍ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ. وَقَدْ بَقِيَ أَخُونَا الصَّغِيرُ عِنْدَ أَبِينَا الْيَوْمَ، وَالآخَرُ مَفْقُودٌ». | ١٣ |
14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
| فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «إِنَّ الأَمْرَ كَمَا قُلْتُ لَكُمْ! أَنْتُمْ جَوَاسِيسُ. | ١٤ |
15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
| وَحَيَاةِ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تُغَادِرُوا هُنَا حَتَّى تَأْتُوا بِأَخِيكُمُ الأَصْغَرِ، وَبِذَلِكَ تُثْبِتُونَ صِدْقَكُمْ. | ١٥ |
16 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.”
| أَوْفِدُوا وَاحِداً مِنْكُمْ لِيَأْتِيَ بِأَخِيكُمْ، أَمَّا بَقِيَّتُكُمْ فَتَمْكُثُونَ فِي السِّجْنِ حَتَّى تَثْبُتَ صِحَّةُ كَلامِكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ. وَإلَّا فَوَحَيَاةِ فِرْعَوْنَ أَنْتُمْ لَسْتُمْ سِوَى جَوَاسِيسَ». | ١٦ |
17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
| وَطَرَحَهُمْ فِي السِّجْنِ مَعاً ثَلاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ. | ١٧ |
18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
| وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ قَالَ لَهُمْ: «افْعَلُوا مَا أَطْلُبُهُ مِنْكُمْ فَتَحْيَوْا، فَأَنَا رَجُلٌ أَتَّقِي اللهَ. | ١٨ |
19 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.
| إِنْ كُنْتُمْ حَقّاً صَادِقِينَ فَلْيَبْقَ وَاحِدٌ مِنْكُمْ رَهِينَةً، بَيْنَمَا يَأْخُذُ بَقِيَّتُكُمُ الْقَمْحَ وَيَنْطَلِقُونَ إِلَى بُيُوتِكُمُ الْجَائِعَةِ. | ١٩ |
20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
| وَلَكِنْ إِيتُونِي بِأَخِيكُمُ الأَصْغَرِ فَأَتَحَقَّقَ بِذَلِكَ مِنْ صِدْقِكُمْ وَلا تَمُوتُوا». فَوَافَقُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ. | ٢٠ |
21 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 wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
| وَقَالُوا: «حَقّاً إِنَّنَا أَذْنَبْنَا فِي حَقِّ أَخِينَا. لَقَدْ رَأَيْنَا ضِيقَةَ نَفْسِهِ عِنْدَمَا اسْتَرْحَمَنَا فَلَمْ نَسْمَعْ لَهُ. لِذَلِكَ أَصَابَتْنَا هَذِهِ الضِّيقَةُ» | ٢١ |
22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
| فَقَالَ رَأُوبَيْنُ: «أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَا تَجْنُوا عَلَيْهِ فَلَمْ تَسْمَعُوا؟ وَالآنَ هَا نَحْنُ مُطَالَبُونَ بِدَمِهِ». | ٢٢ |
23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
| وَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ يُوسُفَ كَانَ فَاهِماً حَدِيثَهُمْ، لأَنَّهُ كَانَ يُخَاطِبُهُمْ عَنْ طَرِيقِ مُتَرْجِمٍ. | ٢٣ |
24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from amongst them, and bound him before their eyes.
| فَتَحَوَّلَ عَنْهُمْ وَبَكَى، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَيْهِمْ وَخَاطَبَهُمْ، وَأَخَذَ شِمْعُونَ وَقَيَّدَهُ أَمَامَ عُيُونِهِمْ. | ٢٤ |
25 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.
| ثُمَّ أَمَرَ يُوسُفُ مُوَظَّفِيهِ أَنْ يَمْلَأُوا أَكْيَاسَهُمْ بِالْقَمْحِ، وَأَنْ يَرُدُّوا فِضَّةَ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ إِلَى كِيسِهِ، وَأَنْ يُعْطُوهُمْ زَاداً لِلطَّرِيقِ. فَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ. | ٢٥ |
26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
| فَحَمَّلُوا حَمِيرَهُمُ الْقَمْحَ وَانْطَلَقُوا مِنْ هُنَاكَ. | ٢٦ |
27 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.
| وَحِينَ فَتَحَ أَحَدُهُمْ كِيسَهُ فِي الْخَانِ لِيَعْلِفَ حِمَارَهُ، لَمَحَ فِضَّتَهُ لأَنَّهَا كَانَتْ مَوْضُوعَةً فِي فَمِ الْكِيسِ. | ٢٧ |
28 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?”
| 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؟». | ٢٨ |
29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
| وَعِنْدَمَا قَدِمُوا عَلَى أَبِيهِمْ يَعْقُوبَ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ قَصُّوا عَلَيْهِ مَا حَلَّ بِهِمْ، وَقَالُوا: | ٢٩ |
30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
| «الرَّجُلُ الْمُتَسَلِّطُ عَلَى مِصْرَ خَاطَبَنَا بِجَفَاءٍ، وَظَنَّ أَنَّنَا جَوَاسِيسُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ، | ٣٠ |
31 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
| فَقُلْنَا لَهُ: نَحْنُ أُمَنَاءُ وَلَسْنَا جَوَاسِيسَ. | ٣١ |
32 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.’
| نَحْنُ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَخاً أَبْنَاءُ أَبِينَا. أَحَدُنَا مَفْقُودٌ، وَالأَصْغَرُ بَقِيَ الْيَوْمَ مَعَ أَبِينَا فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ. | ٣٢ |
33 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.
| فَقَالَ لَنَا الرَّجُلُ سَيِّدُ الْبِلادِ: لِكَيْ أَتَحَقَّقَ مِنْ كَوْنِكُمْ أُمَنَاءَ. دَعُوا أَخاً وَاحِداً مِنْكُمْ عِنْدِي رَهِينَةً وَخُذُوا طَعَاماً لِبُيُوتِكُمُ الْجَائِعَةِ وَامْضُوا، | ٣٣ |
34 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.’”
| ثُمَّ أَحْضِرُوا لِي أَخَاكُمُ الأَصْغَرَ، وَبَذَلِكَ أَعْرِفُ أَنَّكُمْ لَسْتُمْ جَوَاسِيسَ بَلْ قَوْماً أُمَنَاءَ، فَأُطْلِقَ لَكُمْ أَخَاكُمْ وَتَتَّجِرُونَ فِي الأَرْضِ». | ٣٤ |
35 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.
| وَإِذْ شَرَعُوا فِي تَفْرِيغِ أَكْيَاسِهِمْ وَجَدَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ فِضَّتَهُ فِي كِيسِهِ، وَمَا إِنْ رَأَوْا هُمْ وَأَبُوهُمْ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى اسْتَبَدَّ بِهِمِ الْخَوْفُ. | ٣٥ |
36 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.”
| فَقَالَ لَهُمْ أَبُوهُمْ: «لَقَدْ أَثْكَلْتُمُونِي أَوْلادِي. يُوسُفُ مَفْقُودٌ، وَشِمْعُونُ مَفْقُودٌ، وَهَا أَنْتُمْ تَأْخُذُونَ بِنْيَامِينَ بَعِيداً! كُلُّ هَذِهِ الدَّوَاهِي حَلَّتْ بِي!» | ٣٦ |
37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”
| فَقَالَ لَهُ رَأُوبَيْنُ: «اقْتُلِ ابْنَيَّ إِنْ لَمْ أَرْجِعْ بِهِ إِلَيْكَ. اعْهَدْ بِهِ إِلَيَّ وَأَنَا أَرُدُّهُ إِلَيْكَ». | ٣٧ |
38 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 grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.” (Sheol h7585)
| 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) | ٣٨ |
