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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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

¹⁷In jih dene vse skup v zapor tri dni.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

²⁶Nalože torej žito svoje na osle in odidejo odondod.

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.

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.

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?”

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.’

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

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.

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;

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.’”

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.].

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. .”

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.].