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Genesis 42
Names of God Bible
Genesis 42
Names of God Bible
Jacob [Israel] Sends Ten Sons to Egypt
42 When Jacob found out that grain was for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at each other? 2 I’ve heard there’s grain for sale in Egypt. Go there and buy some for us so that we won’t starve to death.”
3 Ten of Joseph’s brothers went to buy grain in Egypt. 4 Jacob wouldn’t send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with the other brothers, because he was afraid that something would happen to him. 5 Israel’s sons left with the others who were going to buy grain, because there was also famine in Canaan.
Joseph Sends Nine of His Brothers Back to Canaan
6 As governor of the country, Joseph was selling grain to everyone. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed in front of him with their faces touching the ground. 7 As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them. But he acted as if he didn’t know them and spoke harshly to them. “Where did you come from?” he asked them.
“From Canaan, to buy food,” they answered.
8 Even though Joseph recognized his brothers, they didn’t recognize him. 9 Then he remembered the dreams he once had about them. “You’re spies!” he said to them, “And you’ve come to find out where our country is unprotected.”
10 “No, sir!” they answered him. “We’ve come to buy food. 11 We’re all sons of one man. We’re honest men, not spies.”
12 He said to them, “No! You’ve come to find out where our country is unprotected.”
13 They answered him, “We were 12 brothers, sons of one man in Canaan. The youngest brother stayed with our father, and the other one is no longer with us.”
14 “It’s just as I told you,” Joseph said to them. “You’re spies! 15 This is how you’ll be tested: I solemnly swear, as surely as Pharaoh lives, that you won’t leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 16 One of you must be sent to get your brother while the rest of you stay in prison. We’ll see if you’re telling the truth. If not, I solemnly swear, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!” 17 Then he put them in jail for three days.
18 On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this, and you will live. I, too, fear Elohim. 19 If you are honest men, you will let one of your brothers stay here in prison. The rest of you will go and take grain back to your starving families. 20 But you must bring me your youngest brother. This will show that you’ve been telling the truth. Then you won’t die.” So they agreed.
21 They said to each other, “We’re surely being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw how troubled he was when he pleaded with us for mercy, but we wouldn’t listen. That’s why we’re in trouble now.”
22 Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen. Now we must pay for this bloodshed.”
23 They didn’t know that Joseph could understand them, because he was speaking through an interpreter. 24 He stepped away from them to cry. When he could speak to them again, he came back. Then he picked Simeon and had him arrested right in front of their eyes.
25 Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain. He put each man’s money back into his sack and gave them supplies for their trip. After their bags were filled, 26 they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
27 At the place where they stopped for the night, one of them opened his sack to feed his donkey. His money was right inside his sack. 28 He said to his brothers, “My money has been put back! It’s right here in my sack!”
They wanted to die. They trembled and turned to each other and asked, “What has Elohim done to us?”
Jacob’s [Israel’s] Sons Report to Him
29 When they came to their father Jacob in Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said, 30 “The governor of that land spoke harshly to us and treated us like spies. 31 But we said to him, ‘We’re honest men, not spies. 32 We were 12 brothers, sons of the same father. One is no longer with us. The youngest brother stayed with our father in Canaan.’
33 “Then the governor of that land said to us, ‘This is how I’ll know that you’re honest men: Leave one of your brothers with me. Take food for your starving families and go. 34 But bring me your youngest brother. Then I’ll know that you’re not spies but honest men. I’ll give your brother back to you, and you’ll be able to move about freely in this country.’”
35 As they were emptying their sacks, each man found his bag of money in his sack. When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were frightened. 36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You’re going to make me lose all my children! Joseph is no longer with us, Simeon is no longer with us, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything’s against me!”
37 So Reuben said to his father, “You may put my two sons to death if I don’t bring him back to you. Let me take care of him, and I’ll bring him back to you.”
38 Jacob replied, “My son will not go with you. His brother is dead, and he’s the only one left. If any harm comes to him on the trip you’re taking, the grief would drive this gray-haired old man to his grave!”
1 Moseboken 42
Svenska Folkbibeln 2015
1 Moseboken 42
Svenska Folkbibeln 2015
Josefs bröder i Egypten
42 (A) När Jakob fick veta att det fanns säd i Egypten, sade han till sina söner: ”Varför står ni bara och ser på varann?” 2 Och han fortsatte: ”Jag har hört att det finns säd i Egypten. Res dit och köp säd åt oss, så att vi överlever och inte dör.” 3 Då reste tio av Josefs bröder ner för att köpa säd i Egypten.
4 Jakob skickade inte Josefs bror Benjamin med de andra bröderna, för han var rädd att det skulle hända honom någon olycka. 5 Så var också Israels söner bland dem som kom för att köpa säd, eftersom det rådde svält i Kanaans land.
6 (B) Josef var nu den som hade makten i landet, och det var han som sålde säd till allt folket. Då kom Josefs bröder dit och bugade sig för honom med ansiktena mot jorden. 7 När Josef såg sina bröder kände han igen dem. Men han låtsades att han var en främling för dem och tilltalade dem hårt och frågade dem: ”Var kommer ni ifrån?” De svarade: ”Från Kanaans land för att köpa säd.” 8 Trots att Josef kände igen sina bröder kände de inte igen honom. 9 (C) Då tänkte Josef på drömmarna som han hade haft om dem. Han sade till dem: ”Ni är spejare[a]. Ni har kommit för att se var landet saknar skydd.” 10 De svarade honom: ”Nej, herre, dina tjänare har kommit för att köpa mat. 11 Vi är alla söner till en och samme man. Vi är hederliga män, dina tjänare är inga spejare.”
12 Men han sade till dem: ”Jo, ni har kommit för att ta reda på var landet saknar skydd.” 13 (D) De svarade: ”Vi, dina tjänare, är tolv bröder, söner till en och samme man i Kanaans land. Den yngste är hemma hos vår far och en lever inte längre.” 14 Josef sade till dem: ”Det är som jag har sagt er. Ni är spejare. 15 (E) Så här ska jag pröva er: Så sant farao lever, ni slipper inte härifrån om inte er yngste bror kommer hit. 16 En av er måste gå och hämta hit er bror, medan ni andra stannar som fångar. Så kan jag pröva om ni har talat sanning. Annars är ni spejare, så sant farao lever.” 17 Sedan höll han dem i förvar i tre dagar.
18 På tredje dagen sade Josef till dem: ”Om ni vill leva så gör så här, för jag fruktar Gud. 19 Om ni är hederliga män, låt då en av era bröder stanna som fånge i huset där ni satt fängslade. Men ni andra får resa i väg och ta hem säden som ni köpt till hjälp mot svälten hos er. 20 Ta sedan med er yngste bror hit till mig. Om ni talat sanning ska ni slippa dö.” Och de gjorde så.
21 Men de sade till varandra: ”Vi har skuld efter det vi gjorde mot vår bror. Vi såg ångesten i hans själ när han bad om förbarmande, men vi ville inte lyssna på honom. Därför har vi själva kommit i denna ångest.” 22 (F) Ruben svarade dem: ”Sade jag inte till er att ni inte skulle synda mot pojken? Men ni lyssnade inte på mig. Därför utkrävs nu hans blod.” 23 Men de visste inte att Josef förstod, för han talade till dem genom tolk. 24 Han vände sig bort från dem och grät. Sedan vände han sig till dem igen och talade med dem. Och han tog Simeon från dem och lät fängsla honom inför deras ögon.
Josefs bröder återvänder till Kanaan
25 Josef befallde att man skulle fylla deras säckar med säd och lägga tillbaka vars och ens pengar i hans säck och ge dem mat för resan. När man hade gjort så, 26 lastade de säden på sina åsnor och reste därifrån. 27 Men när en av dem öppnade sin säck vid en rastplats för att ge sin åsna foder, fick han se sina pengar ligga överst i säcken. 28 Och han sade till sina bröder: ”Jag har fått tillbaka mina pengar. Titta här! De är i min säck!” Då sjönk deras mod, och darrande av skräck sade de till varandra: ”Vad har Gud gjort mot oss?”
29 När de kom hem till sin far Jakob i Kanaans land, berättade de för honom allt som hade hänt dem och sade: 30 ”Mannen som var herre där i landet talade hårt till oss och behandlade oss som om vi var spejare i landet. 31 Men vi sade till honom: Vi är hederliga män, vi är inga spejare. 32 Vi är tolv bröder, söner till en och samme far. En lever inte längre och den yngste är hemma hos vår far i Kanaans land. 33 Men mannen som var herre i landet svarade oss: Så här ska jag ta reda på om ni är hederliga män: Lämna kvar en av era bröder hos mig. Ta det ni köpt mot svälten hemma hos er och res i väg. 34 Kom sedan med er yngste bror hit till mig, så att jag kan vara säker på att ni inte är spejare utan hederliga män. Då ska jag ge tillbaka er bror till er och ni ska få röra er fritt i landet.”
35 När de sedan tömde sina säckar hittade var och en sin pengapåse i sin säck. Både de och deras far blev förskräckta när de fick se pengapåsarna 36 Och deras far Jakob sade till dem: ”Ni gör mig barnlös! Josef är borta, Simeon är borta och Benjamin vill ni också ta ifrån mig. Allting är emot mig!” 37 Ruben sade då till sin far: ”Du får döda båda mina söner om jag inte för Benjamin tillbaka till dig. Anförtro honom åt mig. Jag ska föra honom tillbaka till dig.” 38 (G) Men han svarade: ”Min son får inte resa dit med er. Hans bror är död och han är ensam kvar. Om någon olycka skulle hända honom på resan ni tänker göra, skulle ni föra mina grå hår med sorg ner i dödsriket.”
Genesis 42
New International Version
Genesis 42
New International Version
Joseph’s Brothers Go to Egypt
42 When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt,(A) he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?” 2 He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us,(B) so that we may live and not die.”(C)
3 Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain(D) from Egypt. 4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin,(E) Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.(F) 5 So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain,(G) for there was famine in the land of Canaan(H) also.(I)
6 Now Joseph was the governor of the land,(J) the person who sold grain to all its people.(K) So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.(L) 7 As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them.(M) “Where do you come from?”(N) he asked.
“From the land of Canaan,” they replied, “to buy food.”
8 Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.(O) 9 Then he remembered his dreams(P) about them and said to them, “You are spies!(Q) You have come to see where our land is unprotected.”(R)
10 “No, my lord,(S)” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food.(T) 11 We are all the sons of one man. Your servants(U) are honest men,(V) not spies.(W)”
12 “No!” he said to them. “You have come to see where our land is unprotected.”(X)
13 But they replied, “Your servants(Y) were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan.(Z) The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”(AA)
14 Joseph said to them, “It is just as I told you: You are spies!(AB) 15 And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives,(AC) you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.(AD) 16 Send one of your number to get your brother;(AE) the rest of you will be kept in prison,(AF) so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth.(AG) If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!(AH)” 17 And he put them all in custody(AI) for three days.
18 On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:(AJ) 19 If you are honest men,(AK) let one of your brothers stay here in prison,(AL) while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.(AM) 20 But you must bring your youngest brother to me,(AN) so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” This they proceeded to do.
21 They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother.(AO) We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress(AP) has come on us.”
22 Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy?(AQ) But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting(AR) for his blood.”(AS) 23 They did not realize(AT) that Joseph could understand them,(AU) since he was using an interpreter.
24 He turned away from them and began to weep,(AV) but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.(AW)
25 Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain,(AX) to put each man’s silver back in his sack,(AY) and to give them provisions(AZ) for their journey.(BA) After this was done for them, 26 they loaded their grain on their donkeys(BB) and left.
27 At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey,(BC) and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.(BD) 28 “My silver has been returned,” he said to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack.”
Their hearts sank(BE) and they turned to each other trembling(BF) and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”(BG)
29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan,(BH) they told him all that had happened to them.(BI) They said, 30 “The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us(BJ) and treated us as though we were spying on the land.(BK) 31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.(BL) 32 We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.’(BM)
33 “Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.(BN) 34 But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men.(BO) Then I will give your brother back to you,(BP) and you can trade[a] in the land.(BQ)’”
35 As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his pouch of silver!(BR) When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.(BS) 36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more,(BT) and now you want to take Benjamin.(BU) Everything is against me!(BV)”
37 Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care,(BW) and I will bring him back.”(BX)
38 But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead(BY) and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him(BZ) on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave(CA) in sorrow.(CB)”
Footnotes
- Genesis 42:34 Or move about freely
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