Joseph 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.
Joseph 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.”
42:8
ወዮሴፍሰ ፡ አእመሮሙ ፡ ለአኀዊሁ ፡ ወእሙንቱሰ ፡ ኢያእመርዎ ።
約瑟認得他哥哥們,他們卻不認得他。
Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”
42:14
ወይቤሎሙ ፡ በእንተዝ ፡ እብለክሙ ፡ ሰብአ ፡ ዐይን ፡ አንትሙ ።
約瑟說:「我才說你們是奸細,這話實在不錯。
Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
Send 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.”
42:17
ወወደዮሙ ፡ ውስተ ፡ ሞቅሕ ፡ እስከ ፡ ሠሉስ ፡ መዋዕል ።
於是約瑟把他們都下在監裏三天。
He put them all together into custody for three days.
They said to one 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.”
Reuben 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.”
He 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.
Then 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.
42:26
ወጸዐኑ ፡ እክሎሙ ፡ ውስተ ፡ አእዱጊሆሙ ፡ ወኀለፉ ፡ እምህየ ።
他們就把糧食馱在驢上,離開那裏去了。
They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
The 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.
Bring 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.’”
As 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.
Jacob, 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.”
He 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.”