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1요셉이 그 청지기에 명하여 가로되 양식을 각인의 자루에 실을 수 있을 만큼 채우고 각인의 돈을 그 자루에 넣고 2또 잔 내 곧 은잔을 그 소년의 자루 아구에 넣고 그 양식 값 돈도 함께 넣으라 하매 그가 요셉의 명령대로 하고 3개동시에 사람들과 그 나귀를 보내니라 4그들이 성에서 나가 멀리 가기 전에 요셉이 청지기에게 이르되 일어나 그 사람들의 뒤를 따라 미칠 때에 그들에게 이르기를 너 희가 어찌하여 악으로 선을 갚느냐 5이것은 내 주인이 가지고 마시며 늘 점치는데 쓰는 것이 아니냐 너희가 이같이 하니 악하도다 하라 6청지기가 그들에게 따라 미쳐 그대로 말하니 7그들이 그에게 대답하되 우리 주여 어찌 이렇게 말씀하시나이까 이런 일은 종들이 결단코 아니하나이다 8우리 자루에 있던 돈도 우리가 가나안 땅에서부터 당신에게로 가져왔거늘 우리가 어찌 당신 주인의 집에서 은, 금을 도적질 하리이까 9종들 중 뉘게서 발견되든지 그는 죽을 것이요 우리는 우리 주의 종이 되리이다 10그가 가로되 그러면 너희 말과 같이 하리라 그것이 뉘게서든지 발견되면 그는 우리 종이 될 것이요 너희에게는 책망이 없으리라 11그들이 각각 급히 자루를 땅에 내려 놓고 각기 푸니 12그가 나이 많은 자에게서부터 시작하여 나이 적은 자에게까지 수탐하매 잔이 베냐민의 자루에서 발견된지라 13그들이 옷을 찢고 각기 짐을 나귀에 싣고 성으로 돌아오니라 14유다와 그 형제들이 요셉의 집에 이르니 요셉이 오히려 그곳에 있는지라 그 앞 땅에 엎드리니 15요셉이 그들에게 이르되 너희가 어찌하여 이런 일을 행하였느냐 나 같은 사람이 점 잘 칠 줄을 너희가 알지 못하느냐 16유다가 가로되 우리가 내 주께 무슨 말을 하오리이까 무슨 설명을 하오리이까 어떻게 우리의 정직을 나타내리이까 하나님이 종들의 죄악을 적발하셨으니 우리와 이 잔이 발견된 자가 다 내 주의 종이 되겠나이다 17요셉이 가로되 내가 결코 그리하지 아니하리라 잔이 그 손에서 발견된 자만 나의 종이 되고 너희는 평안히 너희 아버지께로 도로 올라갈 것이니라 18유다가 그에게 가까이 가서 가로되 내 주여 청컨대 종으로 내 주의 귀에 한 말씀을 고하게 하소서 주의 종에게 노하지 마옵소서 주는 바로와 같으심이니이다 19이전에 내 주께서 종들에게 물으시되 너희는 아비가 있느냐 아우가 있느냐 하시기에 20우리가 내 주께 고하되 우리에게 아비가 있으니 노인이요 또 그 노년에 얻은 아들 소년이 있으니 그의 형은 죽고 그 어미의 끼친 것은 그뿐이므로 그 아비가 그를 사랑하나이다 하였더니 21주께서 또 종들에게 이르시되 그를 내게로 데리고 내려와서 나로 그를 목도하게 하라 하시기로 22우리가 내 주께 말씀하기를 그 아이는 아비를 떠나지 못할지니 떠나면 아비가 죽겠나이다 23주께서 또 주의 종들에게 말씀하시되 너희 말째 아우가 너희와 함께 내려오지 아니하면 너희가 다시 내 얼굴을 보지 못하리라 하시기로 24우리가 주의 종 우리 아비에게로 도로 올라가서 내 주의 말씀을 그에게 고하였나이다 25그 후에 우리 아비가 다시 가서 곡물을 조금 사오라 하시기로 26우리가 이르되 우리가 내려갈 수 없나이다 우리 말째 아우가 함께 하면 내려 가려니와 말째 아우가 우리와 함께함이 아니면 사람의 얼굴을 볼 수 없음이니이다 27주의 종 우리 아비가 우리에게 이르되 너희도 알거니와 내 아내가 내게 두 아들을 낳았으나 28하나는 내게서 나간 고로 내가 말하기를 정녕 찢겨 죽었다하고 내가 지금까지 그를 보지 못하거늘 29너희가 이도 내게서 취하여 가려한즉 만일 재해가 그 몸에 미치면 나의 흰머리로 슬피 음부로 내려가게 하리라 하니 30아비의 생명과 아이의 생명이 서로 결탁되었거늘 이제 내가 주의 종 우리 아비에게 돌아갈 때에 아이가 우리와 함께 하지 아니하면 31아비가 아이의 없음을 보고 죽으리니 이같이 되면 종들이 주의 종 우리 아비의 흰 머리로 슬피 음부로 내려가게 함이니이다 32주의 종이 내 아비에게 아이를 담보하기를 내가 이를 아버지께로 데리고 돌아오지 아니하면 영영히 아버지께 죄를 지리이다 하였사오니 33청컨대 주의 종으로 아이를 대신하여 있어서 주의 종이 되게 하시고 아이는 형제와 함께 도로 올려 보내소서 34내가 어찌 아이와 함께 하지 아니하고 내 아비에게로 올라 갈 수 있으리이까 두렵건대 재해가 내 아비에게 미침을 보리이다

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. 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. 3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. 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? 5Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’” 6He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. 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! 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? 9With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.” 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.” 11Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 12He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 13Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. 14Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. 15Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?” 16Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or 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.” 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.” 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. 19My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 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.’ 21You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ 24When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’ 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.’ 27Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons: 28and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I haven’t seen him since. 29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ 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; 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. 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.’ 33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. 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.”

1En hij gebood dengene, die over zijn huis was, zeggende: Vul de zakken dezer mannen met spijze, naar dat zij zullen kunnen dragen, en leg ieders mans geld in den mond van zijn zak; 2En mijn beker, den zilveren beker, zult gij leggen in den mond van den zak des kleinsten, met het geld van zijn koren. En hij deed naar Jozefs woord, hetwelk hij gesproken had. 3Des morgens, als het licht werd, zo liet men deze mannen trekken, hen en hun ezelen. 4Zij zijn ter stad uitgegaan; zij waren niet verre gekomen, als Jozef tot dengene, die over zijn huis was, zeide: Maak u op, en jaag die mannen achterna; en als gij hen zult achterhaald hebben, zo zult gij tot hen zeggen: Waarom hebt gij kwaad voor goed vergolden? 5Is het deze niet, waaruit mijn heer drinkt? en waarbij hij iets zekerlijk waarnemen zal? Gij hebt kwalijk gedaan, wat gij gedaan hebt. 6En hij achterhaalde hen, en sprak tot hen diezelfde woorden. 7En zij zeiden tot hem: Waarom spreekt mijn heer zulke woorden? Het zij verre van uw knechten, dat zij zodanig ding doen zouden. 8Zie, het geld, dat wij in den mond onzer zakken vonden, hebben wij tot u uit het land Kanaan wedergebracht; hoe zouden wij dan uit het huis uws heren zilver of goud stelen? 9Bij wien van uw knechten hij gevonden zal worden, dat hij sterve; en ook zullen wij mijn heer tot slaven zijn! 10En hij zeide: Dit zij nu ook alzo, naar uw woorden! Bij wien hij gevonden wordt, die zij mijn slaaf; maar gijlieden zult onschuldig zijn. 11En zij haastten, en iegelijk zette zijn zak af op de aarde, en iegelijk opende zijn zak. 12En hij doorzocht, beginnende met den grootste, en voleindigende met den kleinste; en die beker werd gevonden in den zak van Benjamin. 13Toen scheurden zij hun klederen; en ieder man laadde zijn ezel op, en zij keerden weder naar de stad. 14En Juda kwam met zijn broederen in het huis van Jozef; want hij was nog zelf aldaar; en zij vielen voor zijn aangezicht neder ter aarde. 15En Jozef zeide tot hen: Wat daad is dit, die gij gedaan hebt? Weet gij niet, dat zulk een man als ik dat zekerlijk waarnemen zoude? 16Toen zeide Juda: Wat zullen wij tot mijn heer zeggen, wat zullen wij spreken, en wat zullen wij ons rechtvaardigen? God heeft de ongerechtigheid uwer knechten gevonden; zie, wij zijn mijns heren slaven, zo wij, als hij, in wiens hand de beker gevonden is. 17Maar hij zeide: Het zij verre van mij zulks te doen! de man, in wiens hand de beker gevonden is, die zal mijn slaaf zijn; doch trekt gijlieden op in vrede tot uw vader. 18Toen naderde Juda tot hem, en zeide: Och, mijn heer! laat toch uw knecht een woord spreken voor mijns heren oren, en laat uw toorn tegen uw knecht niet ontsteken; want gij zijt even gelijk Farao! 19Mijn heer vraagde zijn knechten, zeggende: Hebt gijlieden een vader, of broeder? 20Zo zeiden wij tot mijn heer: Wij hebben een ouden vader, en een jongeling des ouderdoms, den kleinsten, wiens broeder dood is, en hij is alleen van zijn moeder overgebleven, en zijn vader heeft hem lief. 21Toen zeidet gij tot uw knechten: Brengt hem af tot mij, dat ik mijn oog op hem sla. 22En wij zeiden tot mijn heer: Die jongeling zal zijn vader niet kunnen verlaten; indien hij zijn vader verlaat, zo zal hij sterven. 23Toen zeidet gij tot uw knechten: Indien uw kleinste broeder met u niet afkomt, zo zult gij mijn aangezicht niet meer zien. 24En het is geschied, als wij tot uw knecht, mijn vader, opgetrokken zijn, en wij hem de woorden mijns heren verhaald hebben; 25En dat onze vader gezegd heeft: Keert weder. koopt ons een weinig spijze; 26Zo hebben wij gezegd: Wij zullen niet mogen aftrekken; indien onze kleinste broeder bij ons is, zo zullen wij aftrekken; want wij zullen het aangezicht van dien man niet mogen zien, zo deze onze kleinste broeder niet bij ons is. 27Toen zeide uw knecht, mijn vader, tot ons: Gijlieden weet, dat mijn huisvrouw er mij twee gebaard heeft. 28En de een is van mij uitgegaan, en ik heb gezegd: Voorwaar, hij is gewisselijk verscheurd geworden! en ik heb hem niet gezien tot nu toe. 29Indien gij nu deze ook van mijn aangezicht wegneemt, en hem een verderf ontmoette, zo zoudt gij mijn grauwe haren met jammer ten grave doen nederdalen! 30Nu dan, als ik tot uw knecht, mijn vader, kome, en de jongeling is niet bij ons (alzo zijn ziel aan de ziel van deze gebonden is), 31Zo zal het geschieden, als hij ziet, dat de jongeling er niet is, dat hij sterven zal; en uw knechten zullen de grauwe haren van uw knecht, onzen vader, met droefenis ten grave doen nederdalen. 32Want uw knecht is voor dezen jongeling borg bij mijn vader, zeggende: Zo ik hem tot u niet wederbreng, zo zal ik tegen mijn vader alle dagen gezondigd hebben! 33Nu dan, laat toch uw knecht voor dezen jongeling slaaf van mijn heer blijven, en laat den jongeling met zijn broederen optrekken! 34Want hoe zoude ik optrekken tot mijn vader, indien de jongeling niet met mij was, opdat ik den jammer niet zie, welke mijn vader overkomen zou.