Gênesis 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. 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. 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. 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? 5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’" 6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

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! 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? 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves."

10 He said, "Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless."

11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. 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 do divination?"

16 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found."

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 slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

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. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 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.’ 21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ 24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’ 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.’ 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. 28 One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven’t seen him since. 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’*44:29 Sheol is the place of the dead. 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; 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 Sheol.*44:31 Sheol is the place of the dead. 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.’ 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. 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."

Te Kapu Ngaro

1 Nā, ka whakahau ia ki te kaitohutohu o tōna whare, ka mea, "Whakakīia ngā pēke a aua tāngata ki ngā kai e taea te whawhao ki roto, me maka anō te moni a tēnei, a tēnei, ki te waha o tāna pēke. 2 Whaowhina hoki tāku kapu, te kapu hiriwa, ki te waha o te pēke a te whakaotinga, me te moni anō mō tāna wīti." Nā, rite tonu tāna i mea ai ki tā Hōhepa kupu i kī ai.

3 Ā, ka mārama te ata, ka tonoa atu aua tāngata, rātou me ā rātou kāihe. 4 Ā, nō tō rātou haerenga atu i te pā, kīhai i matara, ka mea a Hōhepa ki te kaitohutohu o tōna whare, "Whakatika, whāia aua tāngata; ā, ka mau rātou i a koe, ka mea ki a rātou, ‘He aha i utua ai e koutou te pai ki te kino? 5 Ehara ianei tēnei i te mea e inu ai tōku ariki, i tāna hoki e kite tohu ai ia? Ka kino tā koutou mahi.’ "

6 Nā, ka mau rātou i a ia, ā, kōrerotia ana e ia aua kupu ki a rātou. 7 Ā, ka mea rātou ki a ia, "He aha ēnei kupu i kōrerotia ai e tōku ariki? Auē, kia meatia tēnei mea e āu pononga. 8 Nanā, ko te moni i kitea e mātou i te waha o ā mātou pēke, i whakahokia mai e mātou ki a koe i te whenua o Kanaana; ā, kia tāhae mātou hei aha i te hiriwa, i te kōura rānei, i roto i te whare o tōu ariki? 9 Ki te mea ka kitea taua mea ki tētahi o āu pononga, kia mate ia, kia waiho anō mātou hei pononga mā tōku ariki."

10 Ā, ka mea ia, "Kia rite anō hoki āianei ki tā koutou i mea ai: e kitea taua mea ki tētahi, hei pononga ia māku; ā, kāhore he whakahē mō koutou."

11 Nā, hohoro tonu tā rātou tuku iho i tāna pēke, i tāna pēke, ki te whenua, ā, whakatuwheratia ana e rātou tāna pēke, tāna pēke. 12 Nā, ka rapu ia, tīmata i te mātāmua, ā, whakamutu ki te whakaotinga; ā, ka kitea te kapu i roto i te pēke a Pineamine. 13 Nā, ka haehae rātou i ō rātou kākahu, ā, whakawahā ana e rātou tana kāihe, tana kāihe, hoki ana ki te pā.

14 Nā, ka haere a Hūrā rātou ko ōna tuākana, ko ōna tēina, ki te whare o Hōhepa; ā, i reira tonu ia; ā, tāpapa ana ki te whenua i tōna aroaro. 15 Nā, ka mea a Hōhepa ki a rātou, "He aha tēnei mea i meatia nei e koutou? Kīhai rānei koutou i mahara he tangata matakite te pēnei me ahau nei?"

16 Nā, ka mea a Hūrā, "He aha tā mātou e mea ai ki tōku ariki? He aha tā mātou e kōrero ai? Me aha rānei hei whakatika i a mātou? Kua kitea e te Atua te hara o āu pononga; nā, tēnei mātou hei pononga mā tōku ariki, mātou tahi hoki ko te tangata i kitea nei te kapu ki a ia."

17 Anō rā ko ia, "Engari, kia meatia tēnei e ahau! Ko te tangata i kitea nei te kapu ki a ia, ko ia hei pononga māku; ko koutou ia, haere mārie koutou ki runga, ki tō koutou pāpā."

Te Īnoi a Hūrā mō Pineamine

18 Kātahi ka whakatata a Hūrā ki a ia, ka mea, "Tukua tāu pononga, e tōku ariki, kia kōrero i tētahi kupu ki ngā taringa o tōku ariki, kei mura hoki tōu riri ki tāu pononga; ko kōrua hoki ko Parao rite tahi. 19 I ui mai tōku ariki ki āna pononga, i mea, ‘He pāpā rānei tō koutou, he teina rānei?’ 20 Ā, ka mea mātou ki tōku ariki, ‘He pāpā anō tō mātou, he koroheke, me tētahi tama o tōna koroheketanga, he mea iti; kua mate hoki tōna tuakana, ā, ko ia anake i mahue o ngā tamariki a tōna whaea, e aroha ana hoki tōna pāpā ki a ia.’

21 "Nā, ka mea mai koe ki āu pononga, ‘Kawea mai ia ki raro nei, ki ahau, kia tau atu ai ōku kanohi ki a ia.’ 22 Kātahi mātou ka mea ki tōku ariki, ‘E kore e āhei kia whakarērea tōna pāpā e taua tamaiti. Nō te mea ka mate tōna pāpā ki te mahue i a ia.’ 23 Nā, ka mea koe ki āu pononga, ‘Ki te kāhore tō koutou teina, te whakaotinga, e haere tahi mai i a koutou ki raro nei, e kore koutou e kite i tōku kanohi ā muri ake nei.’ 24 Ā, i tō mātou haerenga ki runga, ki tāu pononga, ki tōku pāpā, nā, ka kōrerotia e mātou ngā kupu a tōku ariki ki a ia.

25 "Ā, ka mea mai tō mātou pāpā, ‘Hoki atu ki te hoko i tētahi wāhi kai mā tātou.’ 26 Nā, ka mea mātou, ‘E kore e āhei ki a mātou te haere ki raro. Ki te mea kei a mātou tō mātou teina, te whakaotinga, nā, ka haere mātou ki raro; nō te mea hoki e kore e taea e mātou te titiro ki te kanohi o taua tangata, ki te kāhore tō mātou teina, te whakaotinga, i a mātou.’

27 "Nā, ka mea tāu pononga, tōku pāpā, ki a mātou, ‘E mōhio ana koutou, tokorua ngā tama a māua ko tāku wahine. 28 Ā, i haere atu tētahi i tōku taha, i mea hoki ahau, "He pono kua haea pūtia ia." Ā, kāhore ahau i kite i a ia ā mohoa noa nei. 29 Ki te tangohia anō hoki tēnei e koutou i tōku aroaro, ā, ka pono he aituā ki a ia, kātahi ka meinga e koutou kia heke tangi atu tōku koroheketanga ki te pō.’

30 "Heoi, ki te haere atu ahau ki tāu pononga, ki tōku pāpā, ā, kāhore taua tamaiti i a mātou; kei roto nei hoki i tōna wairua tōna wairua e paihere ana. 31 Nā, kei tōna kitenga kua kore tēnei tama, ka mate ia; ā, ka meinga e mātou, e āu pononga, te koroheketanga o tāu pononga, o tō mātou pāpā, kia heke tangi atu ki te pō. 32 I waiho hoki tāu pononga hei utu mō tēnei tama ki tōku pāpā, i mea ahau, ‘Ki te kāhore ia e kawea mai e ahau ki a koe, nā, hei whakahēnga ahau mā tōku pāpā i ngā rā katoa.’

33 "Heoi, kia noho rā tāu pononga āianei hei utu mō tēnei tama, hei pononga mā tōku ariki; ā, kia haere tahi te tama i ōna tuākana ki runga. 34 Me pēhea hoki ahau e haere ai ki runga, ki tōku pāpā, ki te kāhore te tama i ahau? Kei kite ahau i te kino e pā ana ki tōku pāpā."