پیدایش 42

1 یعقوب چون شنید در مصر غله فراوان است، به پسرانش گفت: «چرا نشسته، به یکدیگر نگاه می‌کنید؟

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 شنیده‌ام در مصر غله فراوان است. قبل از این که همه از گرسنگی بمیریم، بروید و از آنجا غله بخرید.»

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 بنابراین ده برادر یوسف برای خرید غله به مصر رفتند.

So Joseph’s ten [older] brothers went down to Egypt to buy some grain.

4 ولی یعقوب، بنیامین برادر تنی یوسف را همراه آنها نفرستاد، چون می‌ترسید که او را هم از دست بدهد.

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 پس پسران یعقوب هم با کسانی که برای خرید غله از سرزمینهای مختلف به مصر می‌آمدند وارد آنجا شدند، زیرا شدت قحطی در کنعان مثل همه جای دیگر بود.

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 چون یوسف حاکم مصر و مسئول فروش غله بود، برادرانش نزد او رفته در برابرش به خاک افتادند.

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 یوسف وقتی برادرانش را دید، فوری آنها را شناخت، ولی وانمود کرد که ایشان را نمی‌شناسد و با خشونت از آنها پرسید: «از کجا آمده‌اید؟» گفتند: «از سرزمین کنعان برای خرید غله آمده‌ایم.»

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 هر چند یوسف برادرانش را شناخت، اما آنها او را نشناختند.

Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

9 در این لحظه یوسف خوابهایی را که مدتها پیش در خانهٔ پدرش دیده بود، به خاطر آورد. او به آنها گفت: «شما جاسوس هستید و برای بررسی سرزمین ما به اینجا آمده‌اید.»

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 آنها گفتند: «ای سَروَر ما، چنین نیست. ما برای خرید غله آمده‌ایم.

One of them replied, “No, sir! We have come to buy grain.

11 همهٔ ما برادریم. ما مردمی صادق هستیم و برای جاسوسی نیامده‌ایم.»

We are all sons of one man. We are honest men, not spies.”

12 یوسف گفت: «چرا، شما جاسوس هستید و آمده‌اید سرزمین ما را بررسی کنید.»

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 آنها عرض کردند: «ای سَروَر، ما دوازده برادریم و پدرمان در سرزمین کنعان است. برادر کوچک ما نزد پدرمان است و یکی از برادران ما هم مرده است.»

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 یوسف گفت: «از کجا معلوم که راست می‌گویید؟

Joseph replied, “[You are lying! I think] it is just as I told you. You are spies!

15 فقط در صورتی درستی حرفهای شما ثابت می‌شود که برادر کوچکتان هم به اینجا بیاید و گرنه به حیات فرعون قسم که اجازه نخواهم داد از مصر خارج شوید.

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 یکی از شما برود و برادرتان را بیاورد. بقیه را اینجا در زندان نگاه می‌دارم تا معلوم شود آنچه گفته‌اید راست است یا نه. اگر دروغ گفته باشید به جان فرعون سوگند که شما جاسوس هستید.»

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 پس همهٔ آنها را به مدت سه روز به زندان انداخت.

Then Joseph put them all in prison for three days.

18 در روز سوم یوسف به ایشان گفت: «من مرد خداترسی هستم، پس آنچه به شما می‌گویم انجام دهید تا زنده بمانید.

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 اگر شما واقعاً افراد صادقی هستید، از شما برادران یکی در زندان بماند و بقیه با غله‌ای که خریده‌اید نزد خانواده‌های گرسنه خود برگردید.

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 ولی شما باید برادر کوچک خود را نزد من بیاورید. به این طریق به من ثابت خواهد شد که راست گفته‌اید و من شما را نخواهم کشت.» آنها این شرط را پذیرفتند.

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 آنگاه برادران به یکدیگر گفتند: «همهٔ این ناراحتی‌ها به خاطر آن است که به برادر خود یوسف بدی کردیم و به التماس عاجزانهٔ او گوش ندادیم.»

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 رئوبین به آنها گفت: «آیا من به شما نگفتم این کار را نکنید؟ ولی حرف مرا قبول نکردید. حالا باید تاوان گناهمان را پس بدهیم.»

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 البته آنها نمی‌دانستند که یوسف سخنانشان را می‌فهمد، زیرا او توسط مترجم با ایشان صحبت می‌کرد.

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 در این موقع یوسف از نزد آنها به جایی خلوت رفت و بگریست. سپس نزد آنها بازگشت و شمعون را از میان آنها انتخاب کرده، دستور داد در برابر چشمان برادرانش او را در بند نهند.

[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 آنگاه یوسف به خادمانش دستور داد تا کیسه‌های آنها را از غله پُر کنند، درضمن پولهایی را که برادرانش برای خرید غله پرداخته بودند، در داخل خورجینهایشان بگذارند و توشهٔ سفر به آنها بدهند. پس آنها چنین کردند

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 و برادران یوسف غله را بار الاغهای خود نموده، روانهٔ سرزمین خویش شدند.

his older brothers loaded the sacks of grain on their donkeys and left.

27 هنگام غروب آفتاب، وقتی که برای استراحت توقف کردند، یکی از آنها خورجین خود را باز کرد تا به الاغها خوراک بدهد و دید پولی که برای خرید غله پرداخته بود، در دهانهٔ خورجین است.

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 پس به برادرانش گفت: «ببینید! پولی را که داده‌ام در دهانۀ خورجینم گذاشته‌اند.» آنگاه از ترس لرزه بر اندام آنها افتاده، به یکدیگر گفتند: «این چه بلایی است که خدا بر سر ما آورده است؟»

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 وقتی برادران به سرزمین کنعان نزد پدر خود یعقوب بازگشتند، آنچه را که برایشان اتفاق افتاده بود برای او تعریف کرده، گفتند:

When they returned to their father in Canaan land, they told him all that had happened to them. One of them said,

30 «آن مرد که حاکم آن سرزمین بود با خشونت زیاد با ما صحبت کرد و پنداشت که ما جاسوس هستیم.

“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 به او گفتیم که ما مردمانی درستکار هستیم و جاسوس نیستیم؛

But we told him, ‘We are honest men! We are not spies.

32 ما دوازده برادریم از یک پدر. یکی از ما مرده و دیگری که از همهٔ ما کوچکتر است نزد پدرمان در کنعان می‌باشد.

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 حاکم مصر در جواب ما گفت:”اگر راست می‌گویید، یکی از شما نزد من به عنوان گروگان بماند و بقیه، غله‌ها را برداشته، نزد خانواده‌های گرسنهٔ خود بروید

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 و برادر کوچک خود را نزد من آورید. اگر چنین کنید معلوم می‌شود که راست می‌گویید و جاسوس نیستید. آنگاه من هم برادر شما را آزاد خواهم کرد و اجازه خواهم داد هر زمانی که بخواهید به مصر آمده، غلهٔ مورد نیاز خود را خریداری کنید.“»

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 آنها وقتی خورجینهای خود را باز کردند، دیدند پولهایی که بابت خرید غله پرداخته بودند، داخل خورجینهای غله است. آنها و پدرشان از این پیشامد بسیار ترسیدند.

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 یعقوب به ایشان گفت: «مرا بی‌اولاد کردید. یوسف دیگر برنگشت، شمعون از دستم رفت و حالا می‌خواهید بنیامین را هم از من جدا کنید. چرا این همه بدی بر من واقع می‌شود؟»

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 آنگاه رئوبین به پدرش گفت: «تو بنیامین را به دست من بسپار. اگر او را نزد تو باز نیاورم دو پسرم را بکُش.»

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 ولی یعقوب در جواب او گفت: «پسر من با شما به مصر نخواهد آمد؛ چون برادرش یوسف مرده و از فرزندان مادرش تنها او برای من باقی مانده است. اگر بلایی بر سرش بیاید پدر پیرتان از غصه خواهد مُرد.» (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)