1 那地的饥荒十分严重。 2 他们把从埃及带回来的粮食都吃完了。他们的父亲就对他们说： "你们再去替我们买些粮食回来吧。" 3 犹大对他说： "那人认真地警告我们说： ‘如果你们的弟弟不与你们一起来， 你们就不得见我的面。’ 4 如果你让我们的弟弟与我们同去， 我们就下去替你买粮食。 5 如果你不让他去， 我们也不下去， 因为那人对我们说： ‘如果你们的弟弟不与你们一起来， 你们就不得见我的面。’" 6 以色列说： "你们为什么这样害我， 告诉那人你们还有个弟弟呢？" 7 他们回答： "那人确实查问有关我们和我们亲属的事， 说： ‘你们的父亲还活着吗？你们还有其他的兄弟吗？’我们就照着这些话回答他。我们怎么知道他会说： ‘你们必要把你们的弟弟带下来’呢？" 8 犹大对他父亲以色列说： "你若打发那孩子与我同去， 我们就立刻起程， 好叫我们和你， 以及我们的孩子都可以存活， 不至饿死。 9 我愿意亲自担保他的安全， 你可以从我手里追回他。如果我不把他带回来给你， 交在你面前， 我愿终生承担这罪。 10 要不是我们耽延， 现在第二次也回来了。" 11 他们的父亲以色列对他们说： "如果必须如此， 你们就这样作： 你们把本地最好的出产放在袋里， 带下去给那人作礼物， 就是一点乳香、一点蜂蜜、香料、没药、粟子和杏仁。 12 你们手里要多带一倍银子， 因为你们要把那放回在你们袋口里的银子带回去， 那可能是弄错了的。 13 你们带着你们的弟弟， 起程再到那人那里去吧。 14 愿全能的 神使那人怜悯你们， 给你们释放你们那个兄弟和便雅悯。至于我， 如果要丧失儿子， 就丧失了吧。" 15 于是， 他们带着这些礼物， 手里拿着多一倍的银子， 并且带着便雅悯， 起程下到埃及去， 站在约瑟面前。 16 约瑟见便雅悯与他们同来， 就对管家说： "把这些人带到我家里， 要宰杀牲畜， 预备筵席， 因为在正午的时候， 这些人要与我一起吃饭。" 17 管家就照着约瑟所吩咐的去作， 把这些人带到约瑟的家里。 18 他们因为被领到约瑟的家里， 就害怕起来， 说： "我们被领到这里来， 必定是为了头一次放回在我们袋里的银子， 现在他们想攻击我们， 制伏我们， 逼我们作奴仆， 又夺去我们的驴。" 19 他们于是走近约瑟的管家， 在屋门口与他说话。 20 他们说： "先生啊， 我们头一次下来， 实在是要买粮食的。 21 后来我们来到住宿的地方， 打开布袋的时候， 不料各人的银子仍然在各人的袋口里， 分文不少； 现在我们手里又带回来了。 22 我们手里又另外带来银子， 是买粮食用的。我们不知道头一次谁把我们的银子放在我们的布袋里。" 23 管家说： "你们可以放心， 不要害怕， 是你们的 神， 你们父亲的 神， 把财宝赐给你们， 放在你们的布袋里。你们的银子我早已收到了。"接着他把西缅带出来交给他们。 24 管家把他们领到约瑟的家里， 给他们水洗脚， 又给他们饲料喂驴。 25 于是， 他们预备好了礼物， 等候约瑟中午到来， 因为他们听说他们要在那里吃饭。 26 约瑟回到家里， 他们就把手中的礼物带进屋里送给他， 又俯伏在地向他下拜。 27 约瑟先向他们问安， 然后又问： "你们的父亲， 就是你们所说的那老人家平安吗？他还在吗？" 28 他们回答： "你仆人我们的父亲平安， 他还在。"于是他们低头下拜。 29 约瑟举目观看， 看见自己同母所生的弟弟便雅悯， 就问： "这就是你们向我提过那最小的弟弟吗？"又说： "我儿啊， 愿 神赐恩给你。" 30 约瑟爱弟弟之情激动起来， 就急忙去找个可哭的地方。于是他进了自己的内室， 在那里哭了一阵。 31 他洗了面， 然后出来， 抑制着自己的感情， 吩咐人说： "开饭吧。" 32 他们就给约瑟单独摆了一席， 给那些人另外摆了一席， 又给那些与约瑟一同吃饭的埃及人摆了一席， 因为埃及人不能与希伯来人一同吃饭， 这是埃及人所厌恶的。 33 约瑟使众兄弟在他面前排列坐下， 都是照着他们长幼的次序。众兄弟就彼此对望， 惊奇不已。 34 约瑟拿起自己面前的食物， 分给他们， 但是便雅悯分得的食物， 比别人多五倍。他们就与约瑟一同喝酒宴乐。

1 And the famine [is] severe in the land;2 and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.`3 And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you;4 if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,5 and if thou art not sending -- we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.`6 And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?`7 and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?`8 And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.9 I -- I am surety [for] him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee -- then I have sinned against thee all the days;10 for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.`11 And Israel their father saith unto them, `If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;12 and double money take in your hand, even the money which is brought back in the mouth of your bags, ye take back in your hand, it may be it [is] an oversight.13 `And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man;14 and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.`15 And the men take this present, double money also they have taken in their hand, and Benjamin; and they rise, and go down to Egypt, and stand before Joseph;16 and Joseph seeth Benjamin with them, and saith to him who [is] over his house, `Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal, and make ready, for with me do the men eat at noon.`17 And the man doth as Joseph hath said, and the man bringeth in the men into the house of Joseph,18 and the men are afraid because they have been brought into the house of Joseph, and they say, `For the matter of the money which was put back in our bags at the commencement are we brought in -- to roll himself upon us, and to throw himself on us, and to take us for servants -- our asses also.`19 And they come nigh unto the man who [is] over the house of Joseph, and speak unto him at the opening of the house,20 and say, `O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;21 and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one`s money [is] in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;22 and other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food; we have not known who put our money in our bags.`23 And he saith, `Peace to you, fear not: your God and the God of your father hath given to you hidden treasure in your bags, your money came unto me;` and he bringeth out Simeon unto them.24 And the man bringeth in the men into Joseph`s house, and giveth water, and they wash their feet; and he giveth provender for their asses,25 and they prepare the present until the coming of Joseph at noon, for they have heard that there they do eat bread.26 And Joseph cometh into the house, and they bring to him the present which [is] in their hand, into the house, and bow themselves to him, to the earth;27 and he asketh of them of peace, and saith, `Is your father well? the aged man of whom ye have spoken, is he yet alive?`28 and they say, `Thy servant our father [is] well, he is yet alive;` and they bow, and do obeisance.29 And he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth Benjamin his brother, his mother`s son, and saith, `Is this your young brother, of whom ye have spoken unto me?` and he saith, `God favour thee, my son.`30 And Joseph hasteth, for his bowels have been moved for his brother, and he seeketh to weep, and entereth the inner chamber, and weepeth there;31 and he washeth his face, and goeth out, and refraineth himself, and saith, `Place bread.`32 And they place for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who are eating with him by themselves: for the Egyptians are unable to eat bread with the Hebrews, for it [is] an abomination to the Egyptians.33 And they sit before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the young one according to his youth, and the men wonder one at another;34 and he lifteth up gifts from before him unto them, and the gift of Benjamin is five hands more than the gifts of all of them; and they drink, yea, they drink abundantly with him.