¹Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

¹Huan, Jakob in Aigupta gamah buh a om chih a theia, huchiin Jakob in a tapate kiangah, bang dia ki en maimah na hi ua? Achia.

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.”

²Huan, amah mahin, ngai un, Aigupta gamah buh a om chih ka ja hi: silou a I hinkhiak theihna dingin huaiah vahoh suk unla, huai a kipanin ei a dingin valei un, achia.

³Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

³Huchiin, Joseph unau sawmte Aigupta a kipan a buh lei dingin a vahoh sukta uh a.

⁴But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

⁴Joseph nau Benjamin bel Jakob in a ute kiangah a hohsak keia; tuahsia avatuak kha ding, achi hi.

⁵The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

⁵Huchiin, Israel tapate mi hohte lakah buh lei dingin a hoh ua: Kanan gamah leng kial lah a ke sam ngala.

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.

⁶Huan, Joseph Aigupta gam tungah heutu ahia; amah lah huai gam mi tengteng kiangah a khawngpa ahi: huchiin Joseph ute a hongpai ua, lei siin amah chibai a buk chiat ua.

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.”

⁷Huan, Joseph in a ute ana mu a, amau ana theilai hi, himahleh a kiang uah midang bangin a kibawla, khauh takin amau a houpih a; huan, a kiang uah, koia kipana hong nahi ua? Achia. Huan, amau, buh lei dinga Kanan gam akipan a hongpai ka hi uh, a chi uh.

⁸Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.

⁸Huan, Joseph in a ute ana thei lai a, amau bel amah a theikei uh.

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.”

⁹Huan, Joseph in amau tungtang thu manga amat te a thei kheta a, a kiang uah, galgukte na hi uh; gam vuak dan en dinga hongpai na hi lim uh, achia.

¹⁰They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

¹⁰Huan, amau, a kiangah, Toupa, hilou e, na sikhate buh lei dinga hongpai ka hi uh.

¹¹We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

¹¹Mi khat ta vek ka hi uh; mi diktak ka hi ua, na sikhate jaw galguk ka hi zenzen kei uh, a chi ua.

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

¹²Huan, aman a kianga uah, ka taksang kei, gam vuak dan en dinga hongpai hi mah uteh, achia.

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.”

¹³Huan, amau, kou na sikhate jaw unau sawm leh nih, Kanan gama om mi khat ta ka hi uh; huan, ngaiin, ka nautumpen uh tuin ka pa uh kiangah a oma, khat ahihleh a om nawnta kei hi, achi ua.

¹⁴Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

¹⁴Huan, Joseph in a kiang uah, galguk te na hi uh ka honchih na hi mahmah uh:

¹⁵By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

¹⁵Hichibanga ettel in na om ding uh: na nautumpen uh hiailaia a hongpai kei leh Pharo hinna kichiamin hiai a kipan na pawtkhe kei ding uh ka honchi ahi.

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.”

¹⁶Nou ah thutak a om hia omlou chetna dingin na lak ua khat sawl unla, na nau uh honpi hen, nou bel henin nana om phot ding uh: huchilou in jaw Pharo hinna a kichiam in, galguk te na hi mahmah uh, ka honchi ding hi, achia.

¹⁷He put them all together into custody for three days.

¹⁷Huan, a vek un ni thum a tangsak chiata.

¹⁸Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

¹⁸Huan, a ni thum niin Joseph in a kiang uah, hichiin hih le uchin na hing ding uh; Pathian ka kihta ngala:

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.

¹⁹Mi diktak na hih uleh na unau lak uah khat na suangkulh tanna in uah henin om hen:

²⁰Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

²⁰Huan, na nautumpen uh ka kiangah honpi un; huchiin na thu uh a tel dinga, na si kei ding uhi, achia, Huchiin huchibang in a hihta uhi.

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.”

²¹Huan, amau, I nau tunga I thilhih uh moh petmah I hi, hehpih dinga a hon nget ngitnget laia a lungtang mangbat dan mu napia I ngaihkhiak sak noplouh; huaijiak in hiai mangbatna in hon buak ahi, a kichi ua.

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.”

²²Huan, Reuben in, naupang tungah thi hihkhial kei un, chiin, na kiang uah ka gen kei maw? Na ngaikhe nuam kei ua ahi: huaijiakin, ngai un, a sisan phu la uh ahi, chiin, amau a dawnga.

²³They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

²³A kal ua pauletmi a om jiakin Joseph in a thugen uh a thei chih a theikei uh.

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.

²⁴Huan, aman amau a lehngat sana, a kapta hi; huan, a kiang uah a hong kik nawna, amau a houpih a, a lak ua kipanin Simeon a pi tuam a, a mitmuh un amah gakta hi.

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.

²⁵Huan, Joseph in a ipte uh buha hihdim ding leh, a dangkate uh a ip ua koih nawn chiat dingin leh, lampi a dinga nek ding pe dingin thu a pia a: huchiin huchibangin a hihsak hi.

²⁶They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

²⁶Huan, a buh uh a sabengtung te uh a posak ua, huai a kipan a pawt kheta uhi.

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.

²⁷Huan, a lak ua mi khat in a giahbuk ua a sabengtung an pe dinga a ip a hon leh, a dangka a muta a; ngaiin, a ip gong bul ah a na omta hi.

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?”

²⁸Huchiin, a unaute kiangah, ka dangka na koih nawn uh hi ve e; ngai un, ka ip ah na om zenhouh ve e, achia: huan, a lunglel ua, Pathianin hichi banga honbawl bangchidan ade aw? Chiin, ling kawmin a kien uhi.

²⁹They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

²⁹Huan, Kanan gama a pa uh kiang a hongtung ua, atung ua thil tung tengteng a hilh uh;

³⁰“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

³⁰Huai mi a gam heutupa un, khauh takin a honhoupih a, galguk hi dingin hon gingta.

³¹We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

³¹Huan, kou bel, a kiangah, mi diktak ka hi uh; galguk ka hi zenzen kei uh:

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.’

³²Unau sawm leh nih ka hi ua, ka pa uh tapate ka hi vek ua; khat bel a om nawn keia, ka nautumpen uh tuin Kanan gamah ka pa uh kiangah a om, ka chi uh.

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.

³³Huan, huai mi, a gam heutupa un, ka kiang uah, hichiin mi diktak na hi uh chih ka honthei ding; na unau khat uh ka kiangah nusia unla, na inkuanpih kialte a dingin buh pua unla, paita un:

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.’”

³⁴Huan, na nautumpen uh ka kiangah honpi un: huchiin galguk na hi kei ua, mi diktak na hi jaw uh chih ka thei ding: huchiin na unaupa uh ka honpe nawn dinga, hiai gamah sum na sinta ding uhi, hon chia, a chi ua.

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.

³⁵Huan, hichi ahia, a ipte uh a butkhiak lai un, ngaiin, a dangka tun chiat uh a ip uah na om chiata: huan, amau leh apa uh a dangka tunte uh a muh un a lau mahmah uhi.

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.”

³⁶Huan, a pa uh Jakob in, a kiang uah, nouten ka tate hon tansak na hi uh: Joseph a om nawn kei, Simeon lah a om nawn kei, Benjamin nasan lah pi mang na tum nawn jel ua: huai thil tengteng in hon kiakkhum eita ve, achia.

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.”

³⁷Huan, Reuben in, apa kiangah, na kianga ka honpi nawnkei leh ka tapa nihte that maiin: amah ka khut ah honkem sak inla, na kiangah ka honpi nawn mai ding, chiin, a gena.Huan, aman, ka tapa jaw na kiang uah a hong suk kei ding; a u a sita a, amah kia lah ahita ngala: na paina lam lak uah tuahsia tuak leh, ka lu kang lungkhamna in han ah na tumsak ding uh ahi, achi hi.

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. .”

³⁸Huan, aman, ka tapa jaw na kiang uah a hong suk kei ding; a u a sita a, amah kia lah ahita ngala: na paina lam lak uah tuahsia tuak leh, ka lu kang lungkhamna in han ah na tumsak ding uh ahi, achi hi.