Beresheet, 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 Mitzrayim,
their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food."
{43:3} Yehudah 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 will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy
you food, {43:5} but if you will not send him, we will not go down,
for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your
brother is with you.'"
{43:6} Yisra'el 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} Yehudah said to Yisra'el, his father, "Send the boy with me,
and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we,
and you, and also our little ones. {43:9} I will 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 unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second
time by now."
{43:11} Their father, Yisra'el, said to them, "If it be so now, do
this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, 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, with the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks
carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight. {43:13} Take
also your brother, and arise, go again to the man. {43:14} May El
Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your
other brother and Binyamin. 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 Binyamin; and rose up, went down to Mitzrayim, and
stood before Yosef. {43:16} When Yosef saw Binyamin with them, he said
to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and
butcher an animal, and make ready; for the men will dine with me at
noon."
{43:17} The man did as Yosef commanded, and the man brought the men
to Yosef's house. {43:18} The men were afraid, because they were
brought to Yosef's house; and they said, "Because of the money that
was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he
may seek occasion against us, and fall on us, and take us for
bondservants, along with our donkeys." {43:19} They came near to the
steward of Yosef's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the
house, {43:20} and said, "Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the
first time to buy food: {43:21} and it happened, when we came to the
lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's
money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have
brought it again in our hand. {43:22} Other money have we brought down
in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
{43:23} He said, "Shalom 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 Shim`on out to them. {43:24} The man
brought the men into Yosef's house, and gave them water, and they
washed their feet. He gave their donkeys provender. {43:25} They made
ready the present for Yosef's coming at noon, for they heard that they
should eat bread there.
{43:26} When Yosef came home, they brought him the present which was
in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the
[1>]eretz[<1]. {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 the head, and did homage. {43:29} He lifted up his
eyes, and saw Binyamin, 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} Yosef made haste; for his heart
yearned over his brother: and he sought a place to weep; and 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
Mitzrim, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Mitzrim don't
eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Mitzrim.
{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 Binyamin'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 every 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 Yosef 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, Yosef said to
his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, tell
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 to them
these words.
{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 Kana`an. How then should we
steal silver or gold out of your lord's house? {44:9} With whoever of
your servants it be 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 took down every man his sack to the
ground, and opened every man his sack. {44:12} He searched, beginning
with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in
Binyamin's sack. {44:13} Then they tore their clothes, and loaded
every man his donkey, and returned to the city.
{44:14} Yehudah and his brothers came to Yosef's house, and he was
still there. They fell on the ground before him. {44:15} Yosef 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} Yehudah 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 shalom to your father."
{44:18} Then Yehudah 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 Par`oh.
{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 will
we 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 befalls
him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to She'ol.' {44:30}
Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is
not with us; seeing that 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 She'ol. {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 Yosef couldn't control himself before all those who
stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!"
There stood no man with him, while Yosef made himself known to his
brothers. {45:2} He wept aloud. The Mitzrim heard, and the house of
Par`oh heard. {45:3} Yosef said to his brothers, "I am Yosef! Does my
father still live?"
His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his
presence. {45:4} Yosef said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please."
They came near. "He said, I am Yosef, your brother, whom you sold
into Mitzrayim. {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 has the famine 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 you a
remnant in the [1>]eretz[<1], 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 Par`oh, lord of all his house, and
ruler over all the land of Mitzrayim. {45:9} Hurry, and go up to my
father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Yosef says, "God has made
me lord of all Mitzrayim. 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 Binyamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to
you. {45:13} You shall tell my father of all my glory in Mitzrayim,
and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father
down here." {45:14} He fell on his brother Binyamin's neck, and wept,
and Binyamin 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 Par`oh's house, saying,
"Yosef's brothers have come." It pleased Par`oh well, and his
servants. {45:17} Par`oh said to Yosef, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this.
Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Kana`an. {45:18} Take
your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you
the good of the land of Mitzrayim, and you will eat the fat of the
land.' {45:19} Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the
land of Mitzrayim 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 Mitzrayim is
yours."
{45:21} The sons of Yisra'el did so. Yosef gave them wagons,
according to the [2>]mitzvah[<2] of Par`oh, and gave them provision
for the way. {45:22} To all of them he gave each man changes of
clothing, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and
five changes of clothing. {45:23} To his father, he sent after this
manner: ten donkeys laden with the good things of Mitzrayim, and ten
she-asses laden 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 Mitzrayim, and came into the land of
Kana`an, to Ya`akov their father. {45:26} They told him, saying,
"Yosef is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of
Mitzrayim." His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them. {45:27}
They told him all the words of Yosef, which he had said to them. When
he saw the wagons which Yosef had sent to carry him, the spirit of
Ya`akov, their father, revived. {45:28} Yisra'el said, "It is enough.
Yosef my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
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Footnotes:
[1] {43:26} earth
[1] {45:7} earth
[2] {45:21} commandment
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