Genesis 44

1 praecepit autem Ioseph dispensatori domus suae dicens imple saccos eorum frumento quantum possunt capere et pone pecuniam singulorum in summitate sacci

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.

2 scyphum autem meum argenteum et pretium quod dedit tritici pone in ore sacci iunioris factumque est ita

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.

3 et orto mane dimissi sunt cum asinis suis

As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent off along with their donkeys.

4 iamque urbem exierant et processerant paululum tum Ioseph arcessito dispensatore domus surge inquit persequere viros et adprehensis dicito quare reddidistis malum pro bono

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?

5 scyphum quem furati estis ipse est in quo bibit dominus meus et in quo augurari solet pessimam rem fecistis

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.'"

6 fecit ille ut iusserat et adprehensis per ordinem locutus est

And he caught up with them and spoke these words to them.

7 qui responderunt quare sic loquitur dominus noster ut servi tui tantum flagitii commiserint

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.

8 pecuniam quam invenimus in summitate saccorum reportavimus ad te de terra Chanaan et quomodo consequens est ut furati simus de domo domini tui aurum vel argentum

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?

9 apud quemcumque fuerit inventum servorum tuorum quod quaeris moriatur et nos servi erimus domini nostri

With whomever of your servants it is found, he must die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."

10 qui dixit fiat iuxta vestram sententiam apud quem fuerit inventum ipse sit servus meus vos autem eritis innoxii

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."

11 itaque festinato deponentes in terram saccos aperuerunt singuli

Then they hurried, and each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

12 quos scrutatus incipiens a maiore usque ad minimum invenit scyphum in sacco Beniamin

And he searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

13 at illi scissis vestibus oneratisque rursum asinis reversi sunt in oppidum

Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.

14 primusque Iudas cum fratribus ingressus est ad Ioseph necdum enim de loco abierat omnesque ante eum in terra pariter corruerunt

So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

15 quibus ille ait cur sic agere voluistis an ignoratis quod non sit similis mei in augurandi scientia

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?"

16 cui Iudas quid respondebimus inquit domino meo vel quid loquemur aut iusti poterimus obtendere Deus invenit iniquitatem servorum tuorum en omnes servi sumus domini mei et nos et apud quem inventus est scyphus

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."

17 respondit Ioseph absit a me ut sic agam qui furatus est scyphum ipse sit servus meus vos autem abite liberi ad patrem vestrum

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."

18 accedens propius Iudas confidenter ait oro domine mi loquatur servus tuus verbum in auribus tuis et ne irascaris famulo tuo tu es enim post Pharaonem

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.

19 dominus meus interrogasti prius servos tuos habetis patrem aut fratrem

My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'

20 et nos respondimus tibi domino meo est nobis pater senex et puer parvulus qui in senecta illius natus est cuius uterinus frater est mortuus et ipsum solum habet mater sua pater vero tenere diligit eum

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.'

21 dixistique servis tuis adducite eum ad me et ponam oculos meos super illum

Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, so that I can see him myself.'

22 suggessimus domino meo non potest puer relinquere patrem suum si enim illum dimiserit morietur

And we said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

23 et dixisti servis tuis nisi venerit frater vester minimus vobiscum non videbitis amplius faciem meam

But you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'

24 cum ergo ascendissemus ad famulum tuum patrem nostrum narravimus ei omnia quae locutus est dominus meus

And it happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25 et dixit pater noster revertimini et emite nobis parum tritici

But our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

26 cui diximus ire non possumus si frater noster minimus descendet nobiscum proficiscemur simul alioquin illo absente non audemus videre faciem viri

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.'

27 atque ille respondit vos scitis quod duos genuerit mihi uxor mea

Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.

28 egressus est unus et dixistis bestia devoravit eum et hucusque non conparet

And the one disappeared from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces." And I haven't seen him since.

29 si tuleritis et istum et aliquid ei in via contigerit deducetis canos meos cum maerore ad inferos (Sheol h7585)

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)

30 igitur si intravero ad servum tuum patrem nostrum et puer defuerit cum anima illius ex huius anima pendeat

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,

31 videritque eum non esse nobiscum morietur et deducent famuli tui canos eius cum dolore ad inferos (Sheol h7585)

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)

32 ego proprie servus tuus qui in meam hunc recepi fidem et spopondi dicens nisi reduxero eum peccati reus ero in patrem meum omni tempore

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.'

33 manebo itaque servus tuus pro puero in ministerium domini mei et puer ascendat cum fratribus suis

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.

34 non enim possum redire ad patrem absente puero ne calamitatis quae oppressura est patrem meum testis adsistam

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."