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

¹A keď videl Jakob, že je obilie v Egypte, riekol svojim synom: Prečo hľadíte jeden na druhého?

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.”

²A riekol: Hľa, počul som, že je obilie v Egypte. Odídite ta dolu a kúpte nám odtiaľ obilia, a budeme žiť a nezomrieme.

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

³A tak odišlo dolu desať bratov Jozefových, aby nakúpili obilia z Egypta.

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

⁴Ale Benjamina, brata Jozefovho, neposlal Jakob s jeho bratmi, lebo riekol: Aby sa mu neprihodilo nejaké nešťastie.

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

⁵A synovia Izraelovi prišli kúpiť obilia spolu medzi inými, ktorí tiež prišli kupovať, pretože bol hlad v Kananejskej zemi.

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.

⁶A Jozef bol vladárom nad zemou; on predával obilie všetkému ľudu zeme. Keď tedy prišli bratia Jozefovi, poklonili sa mu tvárou k zemi.

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.”

⁷A keď videl Jozef svojich bratov, poznal ich. Ale sa staväl ku nim cudzí a hovoril s nimi tvrde a riekol im: Odkiaľ ste prišli? A oni odpovedali: Prišli sme z Kananejskej zeme, aby sme nakúpili potravín.

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

⁸Tedy Jozef poznal svojich bratov, ale oni jeho nepoznali.

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.”

⁹Vtedy sa rozpamätal Jozef na sny, ktoré sa mu snívaly o nich. A riekol im: Vyzvedači ste; prišli ste prezrieť nahé miesta zeme.

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

¹⁰A oni mu povedali: Nie tak, môj pane, ale tvoji služobníci prišli nakúpiť potravín.

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

¹¹My všetci sme synovia jedného muža; sme statoční ľudia; nikdy neboli tvoji služobníci vyzvedačmi.

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

¹²A riekol im: Nie, ale nahé miesta zeme ste prišli vidieť.

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.”

¹³A odpovedali: My dvanásti tvoji služobníci sme boli bratia, synovia jedného muža, v Kananejskej zemi. A hľa, najmladší je teraz s naším otcom, a jedného niet.

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

¹⁴A Jozef im riekol: To je to, čo som vám hovoril, že ste vyzvedači.

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

¹⁵Týmto budete zkúsení: Ako že žije faraon, nevyjdete odtiaľto, len ak sem prijde váš najmladší brat.

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.”

¹⁶Pošlite jedného zpomedzi seba, aby pojal a doviedol vášho brata, a vy zostanete vo väzení, a tak budú zkúsené vaše slová, či je pri vás pravda. Jestli nie, ako že žije faraon, vyzvedači ste.

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

¹⁷A dal ich všetkých pod stráž, kde boli tri dni.

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

¹⁸Potom na tretí deň im povedal Jozef: Toto robte a žite. Ja sa bojím Boha.

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.

¹⁹Ak ste vy statoční ľudia, jeden váš brat zostane uväznený v dome, v ktorom ste strážení, a vy iďte a odneste obilie na zapudenie hladu zo svojich domov.

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

²⁰A svojho najmladšieho brata dovediete ku mne, a vaše slová sa dokážu, že sú verné, a nezomriete. - A urobili tak.

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.”

²¹Vtedy vraveli brat bratovi: Pykáme spravedlivo, lebo istá vec, že sme sa previnili proti svojmu bratovi. Lebo sme videli úzkosť jeho duše, keď nás úpenlivo prosil, a nepočúvali sme; preto prišlo na nás toto súženie.

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.”

²²A Rúben im odpovedal a riekol: Či som vám nehovoril: Nehrešte proti chlapcovi!? Ale neposlúchli ste. A hľa, vyhľadáva sa i jeho krv.

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

²³A oni nevedeli, že Jozef rozumie, lebo im hovoril skrze tlumoča.

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.

²⁴A odvrátil sa od nich a plakal a zase sa obrátil k nim a hovoril s nimi. Potom vzal Simeona od nich a poviazal ho pred ich očami.

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.

²⁵A Jozef rozkázal, aby naplnili ich vrecia obilím a aby vrátili každému jeho peniaze do jeho vreca, a tiež aby im dali potravy na cestu. A urobili im tak.

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

²⁶A oni poberúc svoje obilie na svojich oslov odišli odtiaľ.

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.

²⁷A keď rozviazal jeden svoje vrece, aby dal, v nocľažišti, svojmu oslovi obrok, uvidel svoje peniaze, ktoré hľa, boly na vrchu v jeho vreci.

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?”

²⁸A povedal svojim bratom: Moje peniaze sú mi vrátené. Aj tu hľa, sú v mojom vreci. Vtedy ich opustila všetka odvaha. A predesení hovorili druh druhovi: Čo nám to učinil Bôh?

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

²⁹A keď prišli k Jakobovi, svojmu otcovi, do Kananejskej zeme, rozprávali mu všetko, čo sa im prihodilo, a vraveli:

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

³⁰Človek, pán zeme, hovoril s nami tvrde a dal nás do väzenia ako vyzvedačov zeme.

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

³¹A povedali sme mu: My sme statoční ľudia; nikdy sme neboli vyzvedačmi.

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.’

³²Bolo nás dvanásť bratov, synov našeho otca; jedného niet, a najmladší je s naším otcom v Kananejskej zemi.

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.

³³A človek, pán zeme, nám povedal: Po tom poznám, že ste statoční ľudia: Jedného svojho brata ponecháte u mňa, a to, čo je na zapudenie hladu z vašich domov, vezmite a iďte.

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.’”

³⁴A doveďte svojho najmladšieho brata ku mne, a tak zviem, že nie ste vyzvedači, ale že ste statoční ľudia, a vtedy vám vydám vášho brata, a potom obchodujte so zemou.

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.

³⁵A stalo sa, keď vyprázdňovali svoje vrecia, že hľa, každý mal uzlík svojich peňazí vo svojom vreci. A keď videli uzly svojich peňazí, oni aj ich otec, báli sa.

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.”

³⁶A Jakob, ich otec, im povedal: Pripravili ste ma o deti. Jozefa niet, ani Simeona niet, a teraz vezmete Benjamina. Na mňa sa to všetko valí.

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.”

³⁷Vtedy povedal Rúben svojmu otcovi a riekol: Zabi oboch mojich synov, ak ho nedovediem zase k tebe. Oddaj ho do mojich rúk, a ja ho navrátim k tebe.

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. .”

³⁸A povedal: Nepôjde môj syn s vami dolu. Lebo jeho brat zomrel, a pozostal iba on sám. A keby sa mu prihodilo nejaké nešťastie na ceste, ktorou pôjdete, sprevadili by ste moje šediny v zármutku do hrobu. 43. KAPITOLA