1雅各差遣眾子往埃及買糧雅各見埃及有糧食，就對兒子們說：“你們為甚麼彼此對望呢？”
1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
2他又說：“我聽說埃及有糧食，你們下到那裡去，給我們買些糧食，使我們可以活下去，不至餓死。”
2He 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於是，約瑟的十個哥哥就下去了，要從埃及買五穀。
3Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4但雅各並沒有打發約瑟的弟弟便雅憫與哥哥們同去，因為雅各說：“恐怕他會遇到災害。”
4But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
5以色列的眾子也在前來買糧的人群中，因為迦南地也有饑荒。
5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6當時治理埃及地的官長是約瑟，賣糧給那地所有的人民的就是他。所以，約瑟的哥哥們來俯伏在地向他下拜。
6Joseph 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約瑟看見他的哥哥們，就認得他們，可是他裝作陌生人，對他們說嚴厲的話，問他們：“你們是哪裡來的？”他們回答：“我們是迦南地來買糧食的。”
7Joseph 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約瑟認得他的哥哥們，他們卻不認得他。
8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
9約瑟想起從前所作關於他們的兩個夢，就對他們說：“你們是間諜，是來偵察本地的虛實。”
9Joseph 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他們對他說：“我主啊，不是這樣，僕人們實在是來買糧食的。
10They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
11我們都是一個人的兒子，是誠實人；僕人們並不是間諜。”
11We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
12約瑟對他們說：“不是的，你們實在是來偵察本地的虛實。”
12He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
13他們說：“僕人們本是兄弟十二人，我們都是迦南地一個人的兒子。最小的現在與我們的父親在一起，還有一個不在了。”
13They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”
14約瑟對他們說：“我剛才對你們說：‘你們是間諜。’這話實在不錯。
14Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
15我要這樣試試你們：我指著法老的性命起誓，如果你們最小的弟弟不到這裡來，你們就決不得離開這裡。
15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
16你們可以派你們中間一個人回去，把你們的弟弟帶來；其餘的人都要囚禁起來，好證明你們的話真實不真實。如果不真實，我指著法老的性命起誓，你們就是間諜。”
16Send 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於是，約瑟把他們收在監房裡三天。
17He put them all together into custody for three days.
18到了第三天，約瑟對他們說：“我是敬畏 神的，你們要這樣作，就可以活著；
18Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
19如果你們是誠實人，就叫你們兄弟中一個人囚禁在監裡，你們其餘的人可以帶著糧食回去，解救你們家人的饑荒。
19If 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然後把你們最小的弟弟帶到我這裡來，這樣，就可以證明你們的話是真實的，你們就不必死了。”他們就照樣作了。
20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
21他們彼此說：“我們在對待弟弟的事上實在有罪。他向我們求情的時候，我們看見他心裡的痛苦，卻不肯聽他，所以這次苦難臨到我們身上了。”
21They said one to 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流本回答他們，說：“我不是對你們說過：‘不要傷害那孩子’嗎？可是你們不肯聽，現在流他血的罪要向我們追討。”
22Reuben 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他們不知道約瑟聽得明白，因為他們中間有人當傳譯。
23They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
24約瑟轉身離開他們，哭了一陣，又回到他們那裡，與他們說話。然後從他們中間拉出西緬來，在他們眼前把他捆綁起來。
24He 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雅各的眾子返回迦南約瑟吩咐人把五穀裝滿他們的袋，把他們的銀子放回各人的布袋裡；又給他們路上用的食物。一切就照樣辦了。
25Then 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他們把糧食馱在他們的驢上，離開那裡去了。
26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
27到了住宿的地方，他們其中的一個人打開了布袋，要拿飼料餵驢的時候，才發現自己的銀子還在袋口那裡。
27As 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於是對兄弟們說：“我的銀子都歸還了。你們看，就在我的布袋裡。”他們就心裡驚慌，彼此戰戰兢兢地說：“ 神向我們作的是甚麼呢？”
28He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
29他們回到迦南地他們的父親雅各那裡，把他們遭遇的一切事都告訴了他，說：
29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
30“那地的主人對我們說了一些嚴厲的話，把我們當作偵察那地的間諜。
30“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
31我們對他說：‘我們是誠實人，並不是間諜。
31We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
32我們本是兄弟十二人，都是一個父親的兒子；有一個不在了，最小的現在與我們的父親一起在迦南地。’
32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’
33那地的主人對我們說：‘我用這個辦法就可以知道你們是不是誠實人：你們兄弟中要留下一人在我這裡，其餘的人可以帶著糧食回去，解救你們家人的饑荒。
33The 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然後把你們最小的弟弟帶到我這裡來，我就知道你們不是間諜，而是誠實人了。這樣，我就把你們的兄弟交還給你們，你們也可以在這地自由來往。’”
34Bring 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後來他們倒布袋的時候，不料各人的銀包仍然在各人的布袋裡。他們和他們的父親看見了銀包，就都懼怕起來。
35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that 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他們的父親雅各對他們說：“你們總是使我喪失兒子：約瑟沒有了，西緬也沒有了，你們還要把便雅憫帶走；每一件事都是針對我。”
36Jacob, 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流本對他父親說：“如果我不把他帶回來給你，你可以殺死我的兩個兒子；只管把他交給我吧，我必把他帶回來給你。”
37Reuben 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雅各說：“我的兒子不可與你們一同下去，因為他的哥哥死了，只剩下他一個；如果他在你們所走的路上遇到不幸，你們就使我這白髮老人愁愁苦苦地下陰間去了。”
38He 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 Sheol is the place of the dead. .”