Kejadian 42
1 Ketika Yakub mendapat kabar bahwa ada persediaan gandum di Mesir, dia berkata kepada anak-anaknya, “Kalian jangan diam saja!”
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 Lanjut Yakub, “Aku dengar ada gandum di Mesir. Pergilah ke sana dan belilah gandum supaya kita tidak mati kelaparan!”
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 Maka kesepuluh kakak Yusuf pergi ke Mesir untuk membeli gandum.
So Joseph’s ten [older] brothers went down to Egypt to buy some grain.
4 Tetapi Yakub sengaja tidak mengizinkan Benyamin, adik kandung Yusuf, untuk ikut bersama kakak-kakak tirinya, sebab pikirnya, “Jangan sampai terjadi apa-apa padanya.”
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 Kesepuluh anak Yakub berangkat bersama para pembeli lainnya, karena bencana kelaparan melanda seluruh negeri Kanaan.
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 Pada waktu itu, Yusuf adalah pejabat tertinggi di Mesir dan dialah yang berkuasa untuk menjual gandum kepada seluruh rakyat negeri. Karena itu, kakak-kakak Yusuf datang dan bersujud untuk menghormatinya.
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 Ketika Yusuf melihat kakak-kakaknya, dia mengenali mereka, tetapi dia berpura-pura tidak tahu dan berbicara kepada mereka dengan kasar. Tanya Yusuf, “Dari mana kalian?!” Jawab mereka, “Kami datang dari Kanaan hendak membeli gandum.”
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 Meskipun Yusuf mengenali kakak-kakaknya, mereka sudah tidak mengenalinya lagi.
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
9 Saat itu, teringatlah Yusuf pada mimpinya tentang mereka. Lalu dia berkata, “Kalian ini mata-mata dan sengaja menyusup ke sini untuk mencari tahu letak kelemahan negeri kami!”
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 Jawab mereka, “Tidak, Tuan! Hamba-hambamu ini datang hanya untuk membeli bahan makanan.
One of them replied, “No, sir! We have come to buy grain.
11 Kami semua anak dari satu ayah. Kami bukan penipu atau mata-mata!”
We are all sons of one man. We are honest men, not spies.”
12 Kata Yusuf, “Tidak! Kalian pasti datang ke sini untuk menyelidiki letak kelemahan negeri kami!”
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 Mereka kembali menjawab, “Kami datang dari Kanaan, anak dari satu ayah. Kami ini kakak beradik, semuanya ada dua belas laki-laki. Satu sudah meninggal dan adik kami yang bungsu ada bersama ayah kami.”
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 Tetapi Yusuf berkata kepada mereka, “Seperti yang sudah saya katakan, kalian ini mata-mata!
Joseph replied, “[You are lying! I think] it is just as I told you. You are spies!
15 Namun, untuk membuktikan kejujuran kalian, saya bersumpah atas nama raja Mesir bahwa saya tidak akan membiarkan kalian pergi dari tempat ini sebelum adik bungsumu datang ke sini.
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 Pilihlah salah satu di antara kalian untuk pulang menjemput adik kalian dan membawanya ke sini. Sementara itu, yang lain akan ditahan dalam penjara sampai ucapan kalian tadi terbukti benar. Kalau ternyata kalian tidak punya adik, maka demi nama raja Mesir, kalian pasti mata-mata!”
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 Lalu Yusuf memasukkan mereka ke dalam penjara. Pada hari ketiga, Yusuf berkata kepada mereka, “Karena saya orang yang takut dan hormat kepada Allah, saya akan membebaskan kalian dengan satu syarat.
Then Joseph put them all in prison for three days.
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 Kalau kalian benar-benar orang jujur, maka biarlah salah satu dari antara kalian tetap ditahan, dan yang lainnya boleh pulang membawa gandum untuk keluarga kalian yang kelaparan.
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 Bawalah adik bungsu kalian kepadaku. Dengan begitu, kalian membuktikan bahwa kalian dapat dipercaya, sehingga kalian tidak akan dihukum mati.” Saudara-saudara Yusuf pun setuju.
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 Berkatalah mereka satu sama lain, “Sekarang kita sedang dihukum atas kesalahan kita terhadap adik kita. Ingatlah betapa dulu kita melihat kepedihan hatinya, dan betapa dia memohon belas kasihan kepada kita, tetapi kita tidak mempedulikannya. Itulah sebabnya kita mengalami semua ini.”
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 Ruben berkata, “Saat itu sudah kukatakan agar kita jangan menyakiti anak itu, tetapi kalian tidak menghiraukan perkataanku. Sekarang kita menerima balasan atas perbuatan kita.”
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 Mereka tidak tahu bahwa Yusuf mengerti percakapan mereka, karena sebelumnya mereka berbicara dengan Yusuf melalui seorang penerjemah.
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 Mendengar semuanya itu, Yusuf pergi meninggalkan mereka dan menangis. Sesudah mampu menahan perasaanya, dia kembali dan memerintahkan agar Simeon ditahan. Simeon diikat di hadapan saudara-saudaranya, lalu yang lain diperbolehkan pulang ke Kanaan.
[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 Yusuf menyuruh anak buahnya untuk mengisi penuh karung-karung mereka dengan gandum serta memasukkan uang pembayaran gandum ke itu dalam karung mereka masing-masing. Yusuf juga memerintahkan supaya mereka dibawakan bekal dalam perjalanan pulang.
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 Sesudah karung-karung itu dimuat ke atas punggung keledai-keledai mereka, orang-orang itu pun berangkat.
his older brothers loaded the sacks of grain on their donkeys and left.
27 Malam harinya, di tempat mereka beristirahat, salah satu saudara Yusuf membuka karungnya untuk memberi makan keledai. Ketika dia membuka karung itu, dilihatnyalah bahwa uang pembayaran ada di atas gandum.
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 Lalu dia berkata kepada saudara-saudaranya, “Lihat, uangku dikembalikan! Ini ada di dalam karung!” Mereka pun menjadi takut dan gelisah, lalu berkata satu sama lain, “Apa yang sedang Allah perbuat terhadap kita?”
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 Beberapa hari kemudian, setibanya di rumah, mereka menceritakan kepada Yakub semua yang sudah terjadi,
When they returned to their father in Canaan land, they told him all that had happened to them. One of them said,
30 “Penguasa di negeri itu berbicara dengan kasar dan menuduh kami sebagai mata-mata.
“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 Kami sudah menjelaskan, ‘Kami bukan penipu, bukan mata-mata.
But we told him, ‘We are honest men! We are not spies.
32 Kami dua belas bersaudara. Satu adik kami sudah meninggal, dan yang bungsu tinggal bersama ayah kami di Kanaan.’
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 Lalu penguasa itu berkata, ‘Buktikanlah kalau kalian memang orang jujur. Salah satu dari kalian harus tinggal, sedangkan yang lain boleh pulang membawa gandum untuk keluarga kalian.
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 Tetapi kalian harus membawa adik bungsumu itu kepada saya. Dengan begitu, saya akan tahu bahwa kalian jujur dan bukan mata-mata. Saya akan melepaskan saudara kalian, dan kalian bebas berjual beli di Mesir.’”
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 Sewaktu mereka membongkar muatan bahan makanan, tampaklah uang mereka sudah dikembalikan ke dalam karung masing-masing. Melihat itu, Yakub dan anak-anaknya sangat ketakutan.
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 Lalu berkatalah Yakub, “Apa kalian mau aku kehilangan semua anakku?! Yusuf sudah mati, Simeon tidak kembali, dan sekarang kalian akan mengambil Benyamin dariku! Betapa malangnya aku!”
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 Ruben menjawab, “Aku akan bertanggung jawab penuh atas Benyamin. Aku pasti membawanya kembali. Kalau aku tidak membawa dia pulang, Ayah boleh membunuh kedua anak laki-lakiku!”
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 Tetapi kata Yakub, “Aku tidak mengizinkan Benyamin pergi! Kakaknya sudah mati. Tinggal dia saja anakku dari Rahel. Aku sudah tua, dan kalau sampai terjadi sesuatu terhadapnya, pastilah aku segera masuk Syeol karena dukacita.” (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)
