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Genesis 43

    ²And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again and buy us a little food.

    ³Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the atteststion of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you.

    ⁴If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.

    ⁵But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother.

    ⁶Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery in that you told him you had also another brother.

    ⁷But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: Bring hither your brother with you?

    ⁸And Juda said to his father: Send the bou with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

    ⁹I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.

    ¹⁰If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.

    ¹¹Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.

    ¹²And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.

    ¹³And take also your brother, and go to the man.

    ¹⁴And may my almighty Bod make him favourable to you; and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.

    ¹⁵So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin: and went down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

    ¹⁶And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded the steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and kill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at noon.

    ¹⁷He did as he was commanded, and brought the men into the house.

    ¹⁸And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because of the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are brought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by violence make slaves of us and our asses.

    ¹⁹Wherefore going up to the steward of the house, at the door,

    ²⁰They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us: We came down once before to buy food:

    ²¹And when we had bought, and come to the inn, we opened our sacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have now brought again in the same weight.

    ²²And we have brought other money besides, to buy what we want: we cannot tell who put it in our bags.

    ²³But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the God of your Father hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the money, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to them.

    ²⁴And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.

    ²⁵But they made ready the presents, against Joseph came at noon: for they had heard that they should eat bread there.

    ²⁶Then Joseph came into his house, and they offered him the presents holding them in their hands, and they bowed down with their face to the ground.

    ²⁷But he, courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is the old man your father in health, of whom uou told me? Is he yet living?

    ²⁸And they answered: Thy servant our father is in health, he is yet living. And bowing themselves they made obeisance to him.

    ²⁹And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin his brother, by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.

    ³⁰And he made haste becouse his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: And going into his chamber he wept.

    ³¹And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained himself, and said: Set bread on the table.

    ³²And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him, apart, (for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such a feast profane:)

    ³³They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much:

    ³⁴Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.

Genesis 44

    ²And in the mouth of the younger's sack put my silver cup, and the price which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.

    ³And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.

    ⁴And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way; Joseph sendingfor the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?

    ⁵The cup which you have stolen is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.

    ⁶He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he spoke to them the same words.

    ⁷And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact?

    ⁸The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should steal out of thy lord's house, gold or silver?

    ⁹With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.

    ¹⁰And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be blameless.

    ¹¹Them they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack.

    ¹²Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.

    ¹³Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.

    ¹⁴And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph, (for he was not yet gone out of the place, ) and they altogether fell down before him on the ground.

    ¹⁵And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.

    ¹⁶And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup was found.

    ¹⁷Joseph answered: God forbid that should do so: he that stole the cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father.

    ¹⁸Then Juda coming hearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears,and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art,

    ¹⁹My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother?

    ²⁰And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead: and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.

    ²¹And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.

    ²²We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.

    ²³And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother come with you, you shall see my face no more.

    ²⁴Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.

    ²⁵And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.

    ²⁶And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face.

    ²⁷Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore two.

    ²⁸One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him: and hitherto he appeareth not.

    ²⁹If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.

    ³⁰30Therefore if I shall go to thy servant our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)

    ³¹And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.

    ³²Let me be tht proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

    ³³Therefore I thy servant will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.

    ³⁴For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

Genesis 45

    ²And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians and all the house of Pharao heard.

    ³And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: is my father yet living? His brethren could no answer him, being struck with exceeding great fear.

    ⁴And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

    ⁵Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.

    ⁶For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.

    ⁷And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.

    ⁸Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whold house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.

    ⁹Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt: come down to me, linger not.

    ¹⁰And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy son's sons, thy sheep, and thy gerds, and all things that thou hast.

    ¹¹And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining,) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast.

    ¹²Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my mouth that speaketh to you.

    ¹³You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that you have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.

    ¹⁴And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.

    ¹⁵And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of them: after which they were emboldened to ,peak to him.

    ¹⁶And it was heard, and the fame was abroad in the king's court: The brethren of Joseph are come: and Pharao with all his family was glad.

    ¹⁷And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren, saying : Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan.

    ¹⁸And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.

    ¹⁹Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for/ the carriage of their children and their wives: and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed:

    ²⁰And leave nothing of your house- hold stuff: for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours.

    ²¹And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharao's commandment: and provisions for the way.

    ²²He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver with Ave robes of the best:

    ²³Sending to his father as much money and raiment, adding besides ten he asses to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.

    ²⁴So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.

    ²⁵And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan to their father Jacob.

    ²⁶And they told him, saying: Joseph thy son is living: and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.

    ²⁷They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons and all that he had sent his spirit revived,

    ²⁸And he said: It is enough for me, if Joseph my son be yet living: Iwill go and see him before I die.

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²⁴But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out the devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

    ²⁵And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

    ²⁶And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand?

    ²⁷And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

    ²⁸But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.

    ²⁹Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong, and rifle his goods, unless he first bind the strong? and then he will rifle his house.

    ³⁰He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

    ³¹Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

    ³²And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.

    ³³Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

    ³⁴O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

    ³⁵A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

    ³⁶But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.

    ³⁷For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

    ³⁸Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master we would see a sign from thee.

    ³⁹Who answering said to them: An evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

    ⁴⁰For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

    ⁴¹The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

    ⁴²The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transfer interrupted! And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.

    ⁴⁴Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

    ⁴⁵Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man in made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

    ⁴⁶As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

    ⁴⁷And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee.

    ⁴⁸But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?

    ⁴⁹And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren.

    ⁵⁰For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.