Γένεσις 42
1 Και είδεν ο Ιακώβ ότι ευρίσκετο σίτος εν Αιγύπτω· και είπεν ο Ιακώβ προς τους υιούς αυτού, Τι βλέπετε ο εις τον άλλον;
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 Και είπεν, Ιδού, ήκουσα ότι ευρίσκεται σίτος εν Αιγύπτω· κατάβητε εκεί και αγοράσατε δι' ημάς εκείθεν, διά να ζήσωμεν και να μη αποθάνωμεν.
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 Και κατέβησαν οι δέκα αδελφοί του Ιωσήφ διά να αγοράσωσι σίτον εξ Αιγύπτου.
So Joseph’s ten [older] brothers went down to Egypt to buy some grain.
4 τον Βενιαμίν όμως, τον αδελφόν του Ιωσήφ, δεν απέστειλεν ο Ιακώβ μετά των αδελφών αυτού· διότι είπε, Μήπως συμβή εις αυτόν συμφορά.
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 Και ήλθον οι υιοί του Ισραήλ διά να αγοράσωσι σίτον μεταξύ των εκεί ερχομένων· διότι η πείνα ήτο εν τη γη Χαναάν.
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 Ο Ιωσήφ δε ήτο ο διοικητής του τόπου· αυτός επώλει εις πάντα τον λαόν του τόπου· ήλθον λοιπόν οι αδελφοί του Ιωσήφ και προσεκύνησαν αυτόν επί πρόσωπον έως εδάφους.
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 Ιδών δε ο Ιωσήφ τους αδελφούς αυτού, εγνώρισεν αυτούς· προσεποιήθη όμως τον ξένον προς αυτούς και ελάλει προς αυτούς σκληρά· και είπε προς αυτούς, Πόθεν έρχεσθε; οι δε είπον, Εκ της γης Χαναάν, διά να αγοράσωμεν τροφάς.
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 Και ο μεν Ιωσήφ εγνώρισε τους αδελφούς αυτού· εκείνοι όμως δεν εγνώρισαν αυτόν.
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
9 Και ενεθυμήθη ο Ιωσήφ τα ενύπνια, τα οποία ενυπνιάσθη περί αυτών· και είπε προς αυτούς, Κατάσκοποι είσθε· ήλθετε να παρατηρήσητε τα γυμνά του τόπου.
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 Οι δε είπον προς αυτόν, Ουχί, κύριέ μου· αλλ' ήλθομεν οι δούλοί σου διά να αγοράσωμεν τροφάς·
One of them replied, “No, sir! We have come to buy grain.
11 ημείς πάντες είμεθα υιοί ενός ανθρώπου· καλοί άνθρωποι είμεθα· οι δούλοί σου δεν είναι κατάσκοποι.
We are all sons of one man. We are honest men, not spies.”
12 Και είπε προς αυτούς, Ουχί, αλλά τα γυμνά του τόπου ήλθετε διά να παρατηρήσητε.
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 Οι δε είπον, Οι δούλοί σου είμεθα δώδεκα αδελφοί, υιοί ενός ανθρώπου εν τη γη Χαναάν· και ιδού, ο νεώτερος ευρίσκεται σήμερον μετά του πατρός ημών, ο δε άλλος δεν υπάρχει.
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 Και είπε προς αυτούς ο Ιωσήφ, τούτο είναι το οποίον σας είπα λέγων, Κατάσκοποι είσθε.
Joseph replied, “[You are lying! I think] it is just as I told you. You are spies!
15 Με τούτο θέλετε δοκιμασθή· Μα την ζωήν του Φαραώ δεν θέλετε εξέλθει εντεύθεν, εάν δεν έλθη εδώ ο αδελφός σας ο νεώτερος·
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 αποστείλατε ένα από σας και ας φέρη τον αδελφόν σας· σεις δε θέλετε μένει δέσμιοι, εωσού αποδειχθώσιν οι λόγοι σας, αν λέγητε την αλήθειαν· ει δε μη, μα την ζωήν του Φαραώ, κατάσκοποι βεβαίως είσθε.
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 Και έθεσεν αυτούς υπό φύλαξιν τρεις ημέρας.
Then Joseph put them all in prison for three days.
18 Και την τρίτην ημέραν είπε προς αυτούς ο Ιωσήφ, τούτο κάμετε και θέλετε ζήσει διότι εγώ φοβούμαι τον Θεόν·
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 Εάν ήσθε καλοί, εις εκ των αδελφών σας ας μείνη δέσμιος εν τη φυλακή, όπου είσθε· σεις δε υπάγετε, λάβετε σίτον διά την πείναν των οικιών σας·
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 φέρετε όμως προς εμέ τον αδελφόν σας τον νεώτερον· ούτω θέλουσιν αληθεύσει οι λόγοι σας και δεν θέλετε αποθάνει. Και έκαμον ούτω.
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 Και είπεν ο εις προς τον άλλον, Αληθώς ένοχοι είμεθα διά τον αδελφόν ημών, καθότι είδομεν την θλίψιν της ψυχής αυτού, ότε παρεκάλει ημάς και δεν εισηκούσαμεν αυτού· διά τούτο επήλθεν εφ' ημάς η θλίψις αύτη.
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 Απεκρίθη δε ο Ρουβήν προς αυτούς λέγων, Δεν είπον προς εσάς λέγων, Μη αμαρτήσητε κατά του παιδίου, και δεν εισηκούσατε; διά τούτο, ιδού, και το αίμα αυτού εκζητείται.
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 Και αυτοί δεν ήξευρον ότι ενόει ο Ιωσήφ· διότι συνωμίλουν δι' ερμηνέως.
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 Και συρθείς από πλησίον αυτών έκλαυσε· και πάλιν επέστρεψε προς αυτούς και ελάλει εις αυτούς· και έλαβεν εξ αυτών τον Συμεών και έδεσεν αυτόν ενώπιον αυτών.
[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 Τότε προσέταξεν ο Ιωσήφ να γεμίσωσι τα αγγεία αυτών σίτον και να επιστρέψωσι το αργύριον εκάστου εν τω σακκίω αυτού και να δώσωσιν εις αυτούς ζωοτροφίαν διά την οδόν· και έγεινεν εις αυτούς ούτω.
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 Και φορτώσαντες τον σίτον αυτών επί τους όνους αυτών, ανεχώρησαν εκείθεν.
his older brothers loaded the sacks of grain on their donkeys and left.
27 Ότε δε εις εξ αυτών έλυσε το σακκίον αυτού, διά να δώση εις τον όνον αυτού τροφήν εν τω καταλύματι, είδε το αργύριον αυτού, και ιδού, ήτο εν τω στόματι του σακκίου αυτού.
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 Και είπε προς τους αδελφούς αυτού, το αργύριόν μου μοι εδόθη οπίσω και μάλιστα ιδού, είναι εν τω σακκίω μου· και εξεπλάγη η καρδία αυτών και συνεταράχθησαν, λέγοντες προς αλλήλους, Τι είναι τούτο, το οποίον μας έκαμεν ο Θεός;
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 Ήλθον δε προς Ιακώβ τον πατέρα αυτών εις την γην Χαναάν και απήγγειλαν προς αυτόν πάντα τα συμβάντα εις αυτούς, λέγοντες,
When they returned to their father in Canaan land, they told him all that had happened to them. One of them said,
30 Ο άνθρωπος, ο κύριος του τόπου, ελάλησε προς ημάς σκληρά και εξέλαβεν ημάς ως κατασκόπους του τόπου.
“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 Και είπομεν εις αυτόν, Είμεθα καλοί άνθρωποι δεν είμεθα κατάσκοποι·
But we told him, ‘We are honest men! We are not spies.
32 δώδεκα αδελφοί είμεθα, υιοί του πατρός ημών· ο εις δεν υπάρχει ο δε νεώτερος είναι την σήμερον μετά του πατρός ημών εν τη γη Χαναάν.
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 Είπε δε προς ημάς ο άνθρωπος, ο κύριος του τόπου, Με τούτο θέλω γνωρίσει ότι είσθε καλοί άνθρωποι· ένα εκ των αδελφών σας αφήσατε μετ' εμού, και λαβόντες σίτον διά την πείναν των οικιών σας απέλθετε·
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 και φέρετε προς εμέ τον αδελφόν σας τον νεώτερον· τότε θέλω γνωρίσει ότι δεν είσθε κατάσκοποι, άλλ' είσθε καλοί· και θέλω σας αποδώσει τον αδελφόν σας και θέλετε εμπορεύεσθαι εν τω τόπω.
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 Και ότε εκένουν τα σακκία αυτών, ιδού, εκάστου το κομβόδεμα του αργυρίου ήτο εν τω σακκίω αυτού· και ιδόντες αυτοί και ο πατήρ αυτών τα κομβοδέματα του αργυρίου αυτών, εφοβήθησαν.
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 Και είπε προς αυτούς Ιακώβ ο πατήρ αυτών, Σεις με ητεκνώσατε· ο Ιωσήφ δεν υπάρχει και ο Συμεών δεν υπάρχει, και τον Βενιαμίν θέλετε λάβει επ' εμέ ήλθον πάντα ταύτα.
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 Είπε δε ο Ρουβήν προς τον πατέρα αυτού λέγων, τους δύο υιούς μου θανάτωσον, εάν δεν φέρω αυτόν προς σέ· παράδος αυτόν εις την χείρα μου και εγώ θέλω επαναφέρει αυτόν προς σε.
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 Ο δε είπε, δεν θέλει καταβή ο υιός μου μεθ' υμών· διότι ο αδελφός αυτού απέθανε και αυτός μόνος έμεινε· και εάν συμβή εις αυτόν συμφορά εν τη οδώ, όπου υπάγετε, τότε θέλετε καταβιβάσει την πολιάν μου μετά λύπης εις τον τάφον. (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)
