¹Ko je torej videl Jakob, da je žita v Egiptu, reče sinom svojim: Kaj gledate drug drugega?

¹And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, `Why do you look at each other?`

²Glejte, veli, slišal sem, da je žita v Egiptu; idite tja doli in nakupite nam ondi, da bomo živeli in ne umremo.

²he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;`

³Šlo je torej deset bratov Jožefovih doli nakupit žita iz Egipta.

³and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,

⁴Benjamina pa, brata Jožefovega, ni poslal Jakob z brati njegovimi, ker je dejal: Da ga ne zadene nesreča!

⁴and Benjamin, Joseph`s brother, Jacob hath not sent with his brethren, for he said, `Lest mischief meet him.`

⁵In pridejo sinovi Izraelovi kupovat med drugimi, ki so prihajali, kajti lakota je bila v deželi Kanaanski.

⁵And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

⁶Jožef pa je bil vladar v deželi, on je vodil prodajo vsemu ljudstvu dežele; ko so torej prišli bratje Jožefovi, se mu priklonijo ponižno do tal.

⁶and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph`s brethren come and bow themselves to him — face to the earth.

⁷In Jožef, ko je videl brate svoje, jih spozna, toda delal se jim je tujega, ter jih ogovori trdo in vpraša: Odkod ste prišli? Reko mu: Iz dežele Kanaanske kupit živeža.

⁷And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, `From whence have ye come?` and they say, `From the land of Canaan — to buy food.`

⁸Spoznal je torej Jožef brate svoje, a oni ga niso spoznali.

⁸And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him,

⁹In spomni se Jožef tistih sanj, ki jih je imel o njih, in jim reče: Ogleduhi ste, prišli ste ogledovat nezavarovane kraje v deželi.

⁹and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, `Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.`

¹⁰Oni pa mu reko: Ne, gospod moj, hlapci tvoji so prišli kupit žita.

¹⁰And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;

¹¹Mi vsi smo sinovi enega moža; pošteni smo, nikdar niso bili ogleduhi hlapci tvoji.

¹¹we [are] all of us sons of one man, we [are] right men; thy servants have not been spies;`

¹²On pa jim reče: Nikakor, marveč prišli ste ogledovat nezavarovane kraje v deželi.

¹²and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;`

¹³In reko: Dvanajst je bilo hlapcev tvojih; bratje smo, sinovi enega moža v deželi Kanaanski: najmlajši, glej, je sedaj pri očetu našem, enega pa ni več.

¹³and they say, `Thy servants [are] twelve brethren; we [are] sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one [is] with our father to-day, and the one is not.`

¹⁴Veli jim Jožef: To je tisto, kar sem vam rekel: Ogleduhi ste.

¹⁴And Joseph saith unto them, `This [is] that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies,

¹⁵To bodi izkušnja vaša: kakor res živi Faraon, ne pojdete odtod, dokler ne pride sem brat vaš najmlajši.

¹⁵by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this — except by your young brother coming hither;

¹⁶Pošljite enega izmed sebe, ki naj pripelje brata vašega; vi pa bodite jetniki, da se preizkusijo besede vaše, je li resnica pri vas; če pa ne, kakor res živi Faraon, ste ogleduhi.

¹⁶send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not — Pharaoh liveth! surely ye [are] spies;`

¹⁷In jih dene vse skup v zapor tri dni.

¹⁷and he removeth them unto charge three days.

¹⁸Potem jim reče Jožef tretji dan: To storite in si ohranite življenje – Boga se bojim jaz:

¹⁸And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

¹⁹če ste pošteni, naj ostane eden brat vaš zvezan na mestu ječe vaše; vi pa pojdite, odnesite žito, da ne stradajo rodbine vaše.

¹⁹if ye [are] right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn [for] the famine of your houses,

²⁰Najmlajšega brata svojega pa pripeljite k meni, in resnične se izkažejo besede vaše in ne umrete. In oni store tako.

²⁰and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;` and they do so.

²¹Reko pa drug drugemu: Res, krivi smo zaradi svojega brata, ki smo videli bridkost duše njegove, ko nas je prosil usmiljenja, a nismo poslušali; zato nas je zadela ta stiska.

²¹And they say one unto another, `Verily we [are] guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.`

²²In odgovori jim Ruben: Ali vam nisem prigovarjal, rekoč: Ne grešite zoper dečka? Pa me niste poslušali; zato se tudi sedaj, glejte, zahteva kri njegova.

²²And Reuben answereth them, saying, `Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.`

²³Niso pa vedeli, da Jožef ume, zato ker je bil tolmač med njimi.

²³And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter [is] between them;

²⁴In obrne se od njih, in je jokal. A zopet se vrne k njim in govori ž njimi. In vzame izmed njih Simeona in ga zveže pred njih očmi.

²⁴and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes.

²⁵In zapove Jožef, da naj napolnijo njih priprave z žitom ter jim vrnejo denar vsakemu v njegovo vrečo in jim podele brašna na pot. In so jim storili tako.

²⁵And Joseph commandeth, and they fill their vessels [with] corn, also to put back the money of each unto his sack, and to give to them provision for the way; and one doth to them so.

²⁶Nalože torej žito svoje na osle in odidejo odondod.

²⁶And they lift up their corn upon their asses, and go from thence,

²⁷Ko je pa razvezal eden vrečo svojo, da bi dal klaje svojemu oslu na prenočišču, zagleda denar svoj, ki je bil, glej, zvrha v vreči njegovi.

²⁷and the one openeth his sack to give provender to his ass at a lodging-place, and he seeth his money, and lo, it [is] in the mouth of his bag,

²⁸In reče bratom svojim: Vrnil se mi je denar moj, in glejte ga v vreči moji! In upade jim srce in prestrašijo se ter reko drug drugemu: Kaj nam je to storil Bog?

²⁸and he saith unto his brethren, `My money hath been put back, and also, lo, in my bag:` and their heart goeth out, and they tremble, one to another saying, `What [is] this God hath done to us!`

²⁹In ko pridejo k Jakobu, očetu svojemu v deželo Kanaansko, mu povedo vse, kar se jim je prigodilo, govoreč:

²⁹And they come in unto Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and they declare to him all the things meeting them, saying,

³⁰Trdo je z nami govoril tisti mož, one dežele gospod, in sprejel nas je kakor ogleduhe dežele.

³⁰`The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land;

³¹In rekli smo mu: Pošteni smo, nikdar nismo bili ogleduhi.

³¹and we say unto him, We [are] right men, we have not been spies,

³²Dvanajst nas je bratov, sinov našega očeta: enega ni več in najmlajši je ta čas pri očetu našem v deželi Kanaanski.

³²we [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one [is] to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.

³³In reče nam tisti mož, one dežele gospod: Tako bom spoznal, da ste pošteni: brata izmed sebe enega pustite pri meni in tisto, česar stradajo rodbine vaše, vzemite ter odidite;

³³`And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye [are] right men — one of your brethren leave with me, and [for] the famine of your houses take ye and go,

³⁴in pripeljite brata svojega najmlajšega k meni, da spoznam, da niste ogleduhi, ampak poštenjaki. In brata vašega vam vrnem, in tržiti boste smeli po tej deželi.

³⁴and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye [are] not spies, but ye [are] right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the land.`

³⁵Ko so pa praznili vreče svoje, glej, vsak je imel svoj zavitek denarja v vreči svoji; in ko so videli zavitke svojega denarja, so se bali oni in njih oče.

³⁵And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the bundle of each man`s silver [is] in his sack, and they see their bundles of silver, they and their father, and are afraid;

³⁶In Jakob, njih oče, jim reče: Pripravite me ob otroke! Jožefa ni več, in Simeona ni več, in Benjamina bi mi radi vzeli; zoper mene je vse to.

³⁶and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take — against me have been all these.`

³⁷A Ruben ogovori očeta svojega in reče: Ta dva sinova moja daj v smrt, ako ga ne pripeljem zopet k tebi. Daj ga meni v roko, in jaz ga pripeljem zopet k tebi.On pa veli: Ne pojde doli sinček moj z vami; zakaj brat njegov je umrl, in ta je sam ostal, in če njega zadene nesreča na potu, na katerega se pripravljate, spravite sivo glavo mojo z žalostjo v grob [Hebr. šeol.].

³⁷And Reuben speaketh unto his father, saying, `My two sons thou dost put to death, if I bring him not in unto thee; give him into my hand, and I — I bring him back unto thee;`

³⁸On pa veli: Ne pojde doli sinček moj z vami; zakaj brat njegov je umrl, in ta je sam ostal, in če njega zadene nesreča na potu, na katerega se pripravljate, spravite sivo glavo mojo z žalostjo v grob [Hebr. šeol.].

³⁸and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother [is] dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.`