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Genesis, starting at chapter 43
{43:1} The famine was severe in the land. {43:2} It happened, when
they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their
father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
{43:3} Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us,
saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
{43:4} If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you
food, {43:5} but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the
man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is
with you.'"
{43:6} Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man
that you had another brother?"
{43:7} They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and
concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have
you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way
we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
{43:8} Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and
we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and
you, and also our little ones. {43:9} I'll be collateral for him. From
my hand will you require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him
before you, then let me bear the blame forever, {43:10} for if we
hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
{43:11} Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then
do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and
carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey,
spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; {43:12} and take double money in
your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of
your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. {43:13} Take your brother
also, get up, and return to the man. {43:14} May God Almighty give you
mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother
and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
{43:15} The men took that present, and they took double money in
their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood
before Joseph. {43:16} When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to
the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher
an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon."
{43:17} The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men
to Joseph's house. {43:18} The men were afraid, because they were
brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that
was returned in our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he
may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along
with our donkeys." {43:19} They came near to the steward of Joseph's
house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house, {43:20} and
said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
{43:21} When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and
behold, each man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in
full weight. We have brought it back in our hand. {43:22} We have
brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who
put our money in our sacks."
{43:23} He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and
the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I
received your money." He brought Simeon out to them. {43:24} The man
brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they
washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder. {43:25} They prepared
the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they
should eat bread there.
{43:26} When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which
was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to
the earth. {43:27} He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your
father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
{43:28} They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still
alive." They bowed down humbly. {43:29} He lifted up his eyes, and saw
Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your
youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious
to you, my son." {43:30} Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over
his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room,
and wept there. {43:31} He washed his face, and came out. He
controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."
{43:32} They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the
Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians
don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the
Egyptians. {43:33} They sat before him, the firstborn according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men
marveled one with another. {43:34} He sent portions to them from
before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of
theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.
{44:1} He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the
men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's
money in his sack's mouth. {44:2} Put my cup, the silver cup, in the
sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according
to the word that Joseph had spoken. {44:3} As soon as the morning was
light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. {44:4} When
they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said
to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask
them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good? {44:5} Isn't this that
from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have
done evil in so doing.'" {44:6} He overtook them, and he spoke these
words to them.
{44:7} 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!
{44:8} Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we
brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we
steal silver or gold out of your lord's house? {44:9} With whomever of
your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's
bondservants."
{44:10} He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he
with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be
blameless."
{44:11} Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the
ground, and each man opened his sack. {44:12} He searched, beginning
with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in
Benjamin's sack. {44:13} Then they tore their clothes, and each man
loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
{44:14} Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was
still there. They fell on the ground before him. {44:15} Joseph said
to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that
such a man as I can indeed divine?"
{44:16} Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak?
Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your
servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also
in whose hand the cup is found."
{44:17} He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in
whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for
you, go up in peace to your father."
{44:18} Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please
let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your
anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh. {44:19}
My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
{44:20} We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child
of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is
left of his mother; and his father loves him.' {44:21} You said to
your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
{44:22} We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he
should leave his father, his father would die.' {44:23} You said to
your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you
will see my face no more.' {44:24} It happened when we came up to your
servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. {44:25} Our
father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.' {44:26} We said, 'We
can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go
down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother
is with us.' {44:27} Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know
that my wife bore me two sons: {44:28} and the one went out from me,
and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces"; and I haven't seen him
since. {44:29} If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to
him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to [1>]Sheol[<1].'
{44:30} Now therefore 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;
{44:31} it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he
will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your
servant, our father, with sorrow to [2>]Sheol[<2]. {44:32} For your
servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I
don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father
forever.' {44:33} Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead
of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his
brothers. {44:34} For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't
with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
{45:1} Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who
stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No
one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his
brothers. {45:2} He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of
Pharaoh heard. {45:3} Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does
my father still live?"
His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his
presence. {45:4} Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me,
please."
They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold
into Egypt. {45:5} Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves,
that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
{45:6} For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there
are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor
harvest. {45:7} God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant
in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. {45:8} So
now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a
father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land
of Egypt. {45:9} Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is
what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come
down to me. Don't wait. {45:10} You shall dwell in the land of Goshen,
and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's
children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. {45:11}
There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest
you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
{45:12} Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that it is my mouth that speaks to you. {45:13} You shall tell my
father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You
shall hurry and bring my father down here." {45:14} He fell on his
brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
{45:15} He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his
brothers talked with him.
{45:16} The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
"Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his
servants. {45:17} Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do
this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. {45:18}
Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give
you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the
land.' {45:19} Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the
land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your
father, and come. {45:20} Also, don't concern yourselves about your
belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."
{45:21} The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for
the way. {45:22} He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of
clothing. {45:23} He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys
loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded
with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. {45:24}
So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See
that you don't quarrel on the way."
{45:25} They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan,
to Jacob their father. {45:26} They told him, saying, "Joseph is still
alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted,
for he didn't believe them. {45:27} They told him all the words of
Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph
had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
{45:28} Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I
will go and see him before I die."
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Footnotes:
[1] {44:29} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[2] {44:31} Sheol is the place of the dead.
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