Genesis 44
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
1Præcepit autem Joseph dispensatori domus suæ, dicens: Imple saccos eorum frumento, quantum possunt capere: et pone pecuniam singulorum in summitate sacci.
2Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
2Scyphum autem meum argenteum, et pretium quod dedit tritici, pone in ore sacci junioris. Factumque est ita.
3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
3Et orto mane, dimissi sunt cum asinis suis.
4When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
4Jamque urbem exierant, et processerant paululum: tunc Joseph accersito dispensatore domus, Surge, inquit, et persequere viros: et apprehensis dicito: Quare reddidistis malum pro bono?
5Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
5scyphus, quem furati estis, ipse est in quo bibit dominus meus, et in quo augurari solet: pessimam rem fecistis.
6He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
6Fecit ille ut jusserat: et apprehensis per ordinem locutus est.
7They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
7Qui responderunt: Quare sic loquitur dominus noster, ut servi tui tantum flagitii commiserint?
8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
8pecuniam, quam invenimus in summitate saccorum, reportavimus ad te de terra Chanaan: et quomodo consequens est ut furati simus de domo domini tui aurum vel argentum?
9With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
9apud quemcumque fuerit inventum servorum tuorum quod quæris, moriatur, et nos erimus servi domini nostri.
10He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
10Qui dixit eis: Fiat juxta vestram sententiam: apud quemcumque fuerit inventus, ipse sit servus meus, vos autem eritis innoxii.
11Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
11Itaque festinato deponentes in terram saccos, aperuerunt singuli.
12He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
12Quos scrutatus, incipiens a majore usque ad minimum, invenit scyphum in sacco Benjamin.
13Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
13At illi, scissis vestibus, oneratisque rursum asinis, reversi sunt in oppidum.
14Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
14Primusque Judas cum fratribus ingressus est ad Joseph (necdum enim de loco abierat) omnesque ante eum pariter in terram corruerunt.
15Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
15Quibus ille ait: Cur sic agere voluistis? an ignoratis quod non sit similis mei in augurandi scientia?
16Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
16Cui Judas: Quid respondebimus, inquit, domino meo? vel quid loquemur, aut juste poterimus obtendere? Deus invenit iniquitatem servorum tuorum: en omnes servi sumus domini mei, et nos, et apud quem inventus est scyphus.
17He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
17Respondit Joseph: Absit a me ut sic agam: qui furatus est scyphum, ipse sit servus meus: vos autem abite liberi ad patrem vestrum.
18Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
18Accedens autem propius Judas, confidenter ait: Oro, domini mi, loquatur servus tuus verbum in auribus tuis, et ne irascaris famulo tuo: tu es enim post Pharaonem
19My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
19dominus meus. Interrogasti prius servos tuos: Habetis patrem aut fratrem?
20We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
20et nos respondimus tibi domino meo: Est nobis pater senex, et puer parvulus, qui in senectute illius natus est: cujus uterinus frater mortuus est: et ipsum solum habet mater sua, pater vero tenere diliget eum.
21You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
21Dixistique servis tuis: Adducite eum ad me, et ponam oculos meos super illum.
22We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
22Suggessimus domino meo: Non potest puer relinquere patrem suum: si enim illum dimiserit, morietur.
23You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
23Et dixisti servis tuis: Nisi venerit frater vester minimus vobiscum, non videbitis amplius faciem meam.
24When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
24Cum ergo ascendissemus ad famulum tuum patrem nostrum, narravimus ei omnia quæ locutus est dominus meus.
25Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
25Et dixit pater noster: Revertimini, et emite nobis parum tritici.
26We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
26Cui diximus: Ire non possumus: si frater noster minimus descenderit nobiscum, proficiscemur simul: alioquin illo absente, non audemus videre faciem viri.
27Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
27Ad quæ ille respondit: Vos scitis quod duos genuerit mihi uxor mea.
28One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
28Egressus est unus, et dixistis: Bestia devoravit eum: et hucusque non comparet.
29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
29Si tuleritis et istum, et aliquid ei in via contigerit, deducetis canos meos cum mœrore ad inferos.
30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
30Igitur si intravero ad servum tuum patrem nostrum, et puer defuerit (cum anima illius ex hujus anima pendeat),
31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
31videritque eum non esse nobiscum, morietur, et deducent famuli tui canos ejus cum dolore ad inferos.
32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
32Ego proprie servus tuus sim qui in meam hunc recepi fidem, et spopondi dicens: Nisi reduxero eum, peccati reus ero in patrem meum omni tempore.
33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
33Manebo itaque servus tuus pro puero in ministerio domini mei, et puer ascendat cum fratribus suis.
34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
34Non enim possum redire ad patrem meum, absente puero: ne calamitatis, quæ oppressura est patrem meum, testis assistam.
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