Gênesis 42

1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" 2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die." 3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. 4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. 7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?"

They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."

8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him. 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more."

14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. 16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." 17 He put them all together into custody for three days.

18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God. 19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die."

They did so. 21 They said to one another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us." 22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." 23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. 24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. 25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?" 29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, 30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies. 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’ 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’"

35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."

38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."*42:38 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Ka Haere ngā Tuākana o Hōhepa ki Īhipa hei Hoko Wīti

1 Nā, ka kite a Hākopa he wīti kei Īhipa, ka mea a Hākopa ki āna tama, "He aha koutou i tirotiro ai ki a koutou anō?" 2 I mea anō ia, "Nanā, kua rongo ahau he wīti kei Īhipa; haere iho ki reira, ki te hoko i tētahi mā tātou i reira; kia ora ai tātou, kei mate." 3 Nā, ka haere ngā tuākana kotahi tekau o Hōhepa ki raro, ki Īhipa, ki te hoko wīti. 4 Ko Pineamine ia, teina o Hōhepa, kīhai i tonoa e Hākopa i roto i ōna tuākana; i mea hoki ia, "Kei pono tētahi aituā ki a ia." 5 Ā, ka haere ngā tama a Īharaira ki te hoko i roto i te hunga i haere; he matekai hoki tō te whenua o Kanaana.

6 Nā, ko Hōhepa te kāwana o te whenua, ko ia te kaihoko ki ngā tāngata katoa o te whenua. Nā, ka haere mai ngā tuākana o Hōhepa, ā, ka piko ō rātou kanohi ki te whenua i tōna aroaro. 7 Ā, i te kitenga o Hōhepa i ōna tuākana, ka mōhio ia ki a rātou, otiia ka whakatangata kē ia ki a rātou, ka kōrero whakatuma ki a rātou; ka mea hoki ki a rātou, "I haere mai koutou i hea?"

Ā, ka mea rātou, "I te whenua o Kanaana, ki te hoko kai."

8 Ā, i mōhio a Hōhepa ki ōna tuākana ko rātou ia kīhai i mōhio ki a ia. 9 Nā, ka mahara a Hōhepa ki ngā moe i moe ai ia mō rātou, ā, ka mea ki a rātou, "He tūtei koutou; he whakataki i te wāteatanga o te whenua i haere mai ai koutou!"

10 Ā, ka mea rātou ki a ia, "Kāhore, e tōku ariki, engari i haere mai āu pononga ki te hoko kai. 11 He tama katoa mātou nā te tangata kotahi; he hunga pono mātou, ehara āu pononga i te tūtei."

12 Ā, ka mea ia ki a rātou, "Kāhore, engari he whakataki i te wāteatanga o te whenua i haere mai ai koutou."

13 Ā, ka mea rātou, "Kotahi tekau mā rua āu pononga, he tēina, he tuākana mātou, he tama nā te tangata kotahi, nō te whenua o Kanaana. Ko te whakaotinga kei tō mātou pāpā ināianei, ko tētahi kua kāhore."

14 Nā, ko te meatanga a Hōhepa ki a rātou, "Ko ia tāku i kōrero ai ki a koutou, i mea ai, ‘He tūtei koutou.’ 15 Mā konei ka mōhiotia ai koutou: e ora ana a Parao e kore koutou e haere atu i konei, ki te kāhore tō koutou whakaotinga e haere mai ki konei. 16 Tukua atu tētahi o koutou ki te tiki i tō koutou teina, ko koutou hoki, ka herea koutou, kia mōhiotia ai ā koutou kōrero, he pono rānei tā koutou. Ā, ki te kāhore, e ora ana a Parao, inā, he tūtei koutou."

17 Nā, ka huihuia rātou e ia kia tiakina, e toru ngā rā.

18 Ā, i te toru o ngā rā ka mea a Hōhepa ki a rātou, "Ko tēnei tā koutou e mea ai kia ora ai koutou; he tangata wehi hoki ahau i te Atua: 19 ki te mea he hunga pono koutou, me here tētahi o ō koutou tuākana i roto i te whare i tiakina ai koutou; otiia, me haere koutou ki te kawe wīti mō te matekai o ō koutou whare. 20 Ā, me kawe mai tō koutou teina, te whakaotinga, ki ahau; kia whakatikaia ai ā koutou kupu; ā, e kore koutou e mate."

Ā pēnā ana rātou. 21 Ā, ka mea rātou tētahi ki tētahi, "He pono kua whai hara tātou i tō tātou teina; i kite hoki tātou i te mamae o tōna wairua, i a ia i īnoi ai ki a tātou, ā, kīhai tātou i whakarongo atu; nā reira hoki i puta mai ai tēnei hē ki a tātou."

22 Nā, ka whakahoki a Reupena ki a rātou, ka mea, "Kāhore ianei ahau i kī atu ki a koutou, i mea, ‘Kaua e hara ki te tamaiti’; ā, kīhai koutou i rongo? Nā, ko ōna toto anō hoki tēnei te whakatakina nei." 23 Ā, kīhai rātou i mōhio e rongo ana a Hōhepa; nō te mea he kaiwhakamāori hoki i waenganui i a rātou.

24 Nā, ka tahuri kē atu ia i a rātou, ā, ka tangi. Ka hoki anō ia ki a rātou, ka kōrero ki a rātou, ka tango hoki i a Himiona i roto i a rātou, ā, herea ana e ia ki tō rātou aroaro. 25 Nā, ka whakahaua e Hōhepa kia whakakīia ā rātou pēke ki te wīti, kia whakahokia atu ngā moni a tēnei, a tēnei, ki ā rātou pēke, kia hoatu anō hoki ki a rātou he ō ki te ara; nā, pērā ana ia ki a rātou.

Ka Hoki ngā Tuākana o Hōhepa ki Kanaana

26 Nā, ka utaina e rātou ā rātou wīti ki ā rātou kāihe, ā, haere atu ana i reira. 27 Ā, i te whakatuwheratanga a tētahi o rātou i tāna pēke kia hoatu he kai mā tana kāihe i te whare tira, ka kitea e ia tāna moni; nā, kei te waha tonu o tāna pēke. 28 Ā, ka mea ia ki ōna tuākana, "Kua whakahokia mai tāku moni; ā, tēnei anō kei roto i tāku pēke."

Nā, kore ake ō rātou ngākau, ā, ka tahuri rātou me te wiri, ka mea tētahi ki tētahi, "He mahi aha tēnei a te Atua ki a tātou?"

29 Nā, ka tae rātou ki a Hākopa, ki tō rātou pāpā, ki te whenua o Kanaana, ā, ka kōrerotia ki a ia ngā mea katoa i pono ki a rātou; ka mea, 30 "I kōrero whakatuma mai te rangatira o te whenua ki a mātou; i kīia anō mātou e ia he tūtei mō te whenua. 31 Ā, ka mea mātou ki a ia, ‘He tangata pono mātou; ehara mātou i te tūtei. 32 Kotahi tekau mā rua mātou, he tuākana, he tēina, he tama nā tō mātou pāpā; kotahi kua kore, kei tō mātou pāpā hoki te whakaotinga ināianei, kei te whenua o Kanaana.’

33 "Nā, ko te meatanga mai a taua tangata, a te rangatira o te whenua, ki a mātou, ‘Mā tēnei e mōhio ai ahau he hunga pono koutou; me waiho e koutou tētahi o ō koutou tuākana ki ahau, ā, me mau atu e koutou he kai mō te matekai o ō koutou whare, ā, ka haere. 34 Ā, me kawe mai tō koutou teina, te whakaotinga, ki ahau, kia mōhio ai ahau ehara koutou i te tūtei, engari he hunga pono koutou. Pēnei ka hoatu e ahau tō koutou tuakana ki a koutou, ā, ka hokohoko koutou ki tēnei whenua.’ "

35 Ā, i a rātou e ringiringi ana i ā rātou pēke, nā, ko te moni a tēnei, a tēnei e takai ana i roto i ā rātou pēke; ā, ka kite rātou ko tō rātou pāpā i ngā moni e takai ana, nā, ka wehi rātou. 36 Nā, ka mea a Hākopa, tō rātou pāpā, ki a rātou, "Ka whakapania ahau e koutou: ko Hōhepa kua kāhore, ko Himiona hoki kua kāhore, ā, ka tangohia nei e koutou a Pineamine. He pēhi mōku ēnei mea katoa."

37 Nā, ka kōrero a Reupena ki tōna pāpā, ka mea, "Whakamatea āku tama tokorua, ki te kāhore ia e kawea mai e ahau ki a koe; hōmai ia ki tōku ringa, ā, māku ia e whakahoki mai ki a koe."

38 Ā, ka mea ia, "E kore tāku tama e haere tahi i a koutou ki raro; kua mate hoki tōna tuakana, ā, ko ia anake ka mahue nei; ā, ki te pono he aituā ki a ia i te ara e haere nei koutou, kātahi ka meinga tōku koroheketanga e koutou kia heke tangi atu ki te pō."