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1때에 야곱이 애굽에 곡식이 있음을 보고 아들들에게 이르되 너희는 어찌하여 서로 관망 만하느냐 2야곱이 또 이르되 내가 들은즉 저 애굽에 곡식이 있다 하니 너희는 그리로 가서 거기서 우리를 위하여 사오라 그리하면 우리가 살고 죽지 아니하리라 하매 3요셉의 형 십 인이 애굽에서 곡식을 사려고 내려 갔으나 4야곱이 요셉의 아우 베냐민을 그 형들과 함께 보내지 아니하였으니 이는 그의 말이 재난이 그에게 미칠까 두렵다 함이었더라 5이스라엘의 아들들이 양식 사러간 자 중에 있으니 가나안 땅에 기근이 있음이라 6때에 요셉이 나라의 총리로서 그 땅 모든 백성에게 팔더니 요셉의 형들이 와서 그 앞에서 땅에 엎드려 절하매 7요셉이 보고 형들인줄 아나 모르는체 하고 엄한 소리로 그들에게 말하여 가로되 너희가 어디서 왔느냐 그들이 가로되 곡물을 사려고 가나안에서 왔나이다 8요셉은 그 형들을 아나 그들은 요셉을 알지 못하더라 9요셉이 그들에게 대하여 꾼 꿈을 생각하고 그들에게 이르되 너희는 정탐들이라 이 나라의 틈을 엿보려고 왔느니라 10그들이 그에게 이르되 내 주여 아니니이다 종들은 곡물을 사러 왔나이다 11우리는 다 한 사람의 아들로서 독실한 자니 종들은 정탐이 아니니이다 12요셉이 그들에게 이르되 아니라 너희가 이 나라의 틈을 엿보러 왔느니라 13그들이 가로되 주의 종 우리들은 십이 형제로서 가나안 땅 한 사람의 아들들이라 말째 아들은 오늘 아버지와 함께 있고 또 하나는 없어졌나이다 14요셉이 그들에게 이르되 내가 너희에게 이르기를 너희는 정탐들이라 한 말이 이것이니라 15너희는 이같이 하여 너희 진실함을 증명할 것이라 바로의 생명으로 맹세하노니 너희 말째 아우가 여기 오지 아니하면 너희가 여기서 나가지 못하리라 16너희 중 하나를 보내어 너희 아우를 데려오게 하고 너희는 갇히어 있으라 내가 너희의 말을 시험하여 너희 중에 진실이 있는지 보리라 바로의 생명으로 맹세하노니 그리하지 아니하면 너희는 과연 정탐이니라 하고 17그들을 다 함께 삼일을 가두었더라 18삼일만에 요셉이 그들에게 이르되 나는 하나님을 경외하노니 너희는 이같이 하여 생명을 보전하라 19너희가 독실한 자이면 너희 형제 중 한 사람만 그 옥에 갇히게 하고 너희는 곡식을 가지고 가서 너희 집들의 주림을 구하고 20너희 말째 아우를 내게로 데리고 오라 그리하면 너희 말이 진실함이 되고 너희가 죽지 아니하리라 그들이 그대로 하니라 21그들이 서로 말하되 우리가 아우의 일로 인하여 범죄하였도다 그가 우리에게 애걸할 때에 그 마음의 괴로움을 보고도 듣지 아니하였으므로 이 괴로움이 우리에게 임하도다 22르우벤이 그들에게 대답하여 가로되 내가 너희더러 그 아이에게 득죄하지 말라고 하지 아니하였느냐 그래도 너희가 듣지 아니하였느니라 그러므로 그의 피 값을 내게 되었도다 하니 23피차간에 통변을 세웠으므로 그들은 요셉이 그 말을 알아 들은 줄을 알지 못하였더라 24요셉이 그들을 떠나 가서 울고 다시 돌아와서 그들과 말하다가 그들 중에서 시므온을 취하여 그들의 목전에서 결박하고 25명하여 곡물을 그 그릇에 채우게 하고 각인의 돈은 그 자루에 도로 넣게 하고 또 길 양식을 그들에게 주게 하니 그대로 행하였더라 26그들이 곡식을 나귀에 싣고 그 곳을 떠났더니 27한 사람이 객점에서 나귀에게 먹이를 주려고 자루를 풀고 본즉 그 돈이 자루 아구에 있는지라 28그가 그 형제에게 고하되 내 돈을 도로 넣었도다 보라 자루 속에 있도다 이에 그들이 혼이 나서 떨며 서로 돌아보며 말하되 하나님이 어찌하여 우리에게 이 일을 행하셨는고 하고 29그들이 가나안 땅에 돌아와 그 아비 야곱에게 이르러 그 만난 일을 자세히 고하여 가로되 30그 땅의 주 그 사람이 엄히 우리에게 말씀하고 우리를 그 나라 정탐자로 여기기로 31우리가 그에게 이르되 우리는 독실한 자요 정탐이 아니니이다 32우리는 한 아비의 아들 십이 형제로서 하나는 없어지고 말째는 오늘 우리 아버지와 함께 가나안 땅에 있나이다 하였더니 33그 땅의 주 그 사람이 우리에게 이르되 내가 이같이 하여 너희가 독실한 자임을 알리니 너희 형제 중 하나를 내게 두고 양식을 가지고 가서 너희 집들의 주림을 구하고 34너희 말째 아우를 내게로 데려오라 그리하면 너희가 정탐이 아니요 독실한 자임을 내가 알고 너희 형제를 너희에게 돌리리니 너희가 이 나라에서 무역하리라 하더이다 하고 35각기 자루를 쏟고 본즉 각인의 돈뭉치가 그 자루 속에 있는지라 그들과 그 아비가 돈 뭉치를 보고 다 두려워하더니 36그 아비 야곱이 그들에게 이르되 너희가 나로 나의 자식들을 잃게 하도다 요셉도 없어졌고 시므온도 없어졌거늘 베냐민을 또 빼앗아 가고자 하니 이는 다 나를 해롭게 함이로다 37르우벤이 아비에게 고하여 가로되 내가 그를 아버지께로 데리고 오지 아니하거든 나의 두 아들을 죽이소서 그를 내 손에 맡기소서 내가 그를 아버지께로 데리고 돌아오리이다 38야곱이 가로되 내 아들은 너희와 함께 내려가지 못하리니 그의 형은 죽고 그만 남았음이라 만일 너희 행하는 길에서 재난이 그 몸에 미치면 너희가 나의 흰 머리로 슬피 음부로 내려가게 함이 되리라

1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” 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.” 3Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. 4But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.” 5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 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. 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.” 8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him. 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.” 10They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 11We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.” 12He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!” 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.” 14Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ 15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. 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.” 17He put them all together into custody for three days. 18Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God. 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. 20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so. 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.” 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.” 23They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. 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. 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. 26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. 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. 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?” 29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, 30“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 31We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies. 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.’ 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. 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.’” 35As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. 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.” 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.” 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.”

1Toen Jakob zag, dat er koren in Egypte was, zo zeide Jakob tot zijn zonen: Waarom ziet gij op elkander? 2Voorts zeide hij: Ziet, ik heb gehoord, dat er koren in Egypte is; trekt daarhenen af, en koopt ons koren van daar, opdat wij leven en niet sterven. 3Toen togen Jozefs tien broederen af, om koren uit Egypte te kopen. 4Doch Benjamin, Jozefs broeder, zond Jakob niet met zijn broederen; want hij zeide: Opdat hem niet misschien het verderf ontmoete! 5Alzo kwamen Israels zonen om te kopen onder degenen, die daar kwamen; want de honger was in het land Kanaan. 6Jozef nu was regent over dat land; hij verkocht aan al het volk des lands; en Jozefs broederen kwamen, en bogen zich voor hem, met de aangezichten ter aarde. 7Als Jozef zijn broederen zag, zo kende hij hen; maar hij hield zich vreemd jegens hen, en sprak hard met hen, en zeide tot hen: Van waar komt gij? En zij zeiden: Uit het land Kanaan; om spijze te kopen. 8Jozef dan kende zijn broederen; maar zij kenden hem niet. 9Toen gedacht Jozef aan de dromen, die hij van hen gedroomd had; en hij zeide tot hen: Gij zijt verspieders, gij zijt gekomen om te bezichtigen, waar het land bloot is. 10En zij zeiden tot hem: Neen, mijn heer! maar uw knechten zijn gekomen, om spijze te kopen. 11Wij allen zijn eens mans zonen; wij zijn vroom; uw knechten zijn geen verspieders. 12En hij zeide tot hen: Neen, maar gij zijt gekomen, om te bezichtigen, waar het land bloot is. 13En zij zeiden: Wij, uw knechten, waren twaalf gebroeders, eens mans zonen, in het land Kanaan; en zie, de kleinste is heden bij onzen vader; doch de een is niet meer. 14Toen zeide Jozef tot hen: Dat is het, wat ik tot u gesproken heb, zeggende: Gij zijt verspieders! 15Hierin zult gij beproefd worden: zo waarlijk als Farao leeft! indien gij van hier zult uitgaan, tenzij dan, wanneer uw kleinste broeder herwaarts zal gekomen zijn! 16Zendt een uit u, die uw broeder hale; maar weest gijlieden gevangen, en uw woorden zullen beproefd worden, of de waarheid bij u zij; en indien niet, zo waarlijk als Farao leeft, zo zijt gij verspieders! 17En hij zette hen samen drie dagen in bewaring. 18En ten derden dage zeide Jozef tot hen: Doet dit, zo zult gij leven; ik vrees God. 19Zo gij vroom zijt, zo zij een uwer broederen gebonden in het huis uwer bewaring; en gaat gij heen, brengt het koren voor den honger uwer huizen. 20En brengt uw kleinsten broeder tot mij, zo zullen uw woorden waargemaakt worden; en gij zult niet sterven. En zij deden alzo. 21Toen zeiden zij de een tot den ander: Voorwaar, wij zijn schuldig aan onzen broeder, wiens benauwdheid der ziele wij zagen, toen hij ons om genade bad; maar wij hoorden niet! daarom komt deze benauwdheid over ons. 22En Ruben antwoordde hun, zeggende: Heb ik het tot u niet gezegd, toen ik zeide: Zondigt niet aan dezen jongeling! maar gij hoordet niet; en ook zijn bloed, ziet, het wordt gezocht! 23En zij wisten niet, dat het Jozef hoorde; want daar was een taalman tussen hen. 24Toen wendde hij zich om, van hen af, en weende; daarna keerde hij weder tot hen, en sprak tot hen, en nam Simeon van hen, en bond hem voor hun ogen. 25En Jozef gebood, dat men hun zakken met koren vullen zou, en dat men hun geld wederkeerde, een iegelijk in zijn zak, en dat men hun teerkost gave tot den weg; en men deed hun alzo. 26En zij laadden hun koren op hun ezels, en togen van daar. 27Toen een zijn zak opendeed, om zijn ezel voeder te geven in de herberg, zo zag hij zijn geld; want ziet, het was in den mond van zijn zak. 28En hij zeide tot zijn broederen: Mijn geld is wedergekeerd; daartoe ook, ziet, het is in mijn zak! Toen ontging hun het hart, en zij verschrikten, de een tot den ander zeggende: Wat is dit, dat ons God gedaan heeft? 29En zij kwamen in het land Kanaan, tot Jakob, hun vader; en zij gaven hem te kennen al hun wedervaren, zeggende: 30Die man, de heer van dat land, heeft hard met ons gesproken; en hij heeft ons gehouden voor verspieders des lands. 31Maar wij zeiden tot hem: Wij zijn vroom; wij zijn geen verspieders. 32Wij waren twaalf gebroeders, zonen van onzen vader; de een is niet meer, en de kleinste is heden bij onzen vader in het land Kanaan. 33En die man, de heer van dat land, zeide tot ons: Hieraan zal ik bekennen, dat gijlieden vroom zijt; laat een uwer broederen bij mij, en neemt voor den honger uwer huizen, en trekt heen. 34En brengt uw kleinsten broeder tot mij; zo zal ik weten, dat gij geen verspieders zijt, maar dat gij vroom zijt; uw broeder zal ik u wedergeven, en gij zult in dit land handelen. 35En het geschiedde, als zij hun zakken ledigden, ziet, zo had een iegelijk den bundel zijns gelds in zijn zak; en zij zagen de bundelen huns gelds, zij en hun vader, en zij waren bevreesd. 36Toen zeide Jakob, hun vader, tot hen: Gij berooft mij van kinderen! Jozef is er niet, en Simeon is er niet; nu zult gij Benjamin wegnemen! al deze dingen zijn tegen mij! 37Toen sprak Ruben tot zijn vader, zeggende: Dood twee mijner zonen, zo ik hem tot u niet wederbreng; geef hem in mijn hand, en ik zal hem weder tot u brengen! 38Maar hij zeide: Mijn zoon zal met ulieden niet aftrekken; want zijn broeder is dood, en hij is alleen overgebleven; zo hem een verderf ontmoette op den weg, dien gij zult gaan, zo zoudt gij mijn grauwe haren met droefenis ten grave doen nederdalen.