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chapter 42
1
And
Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye
careless?
2 I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: go ye down,
and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
3 So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn
in Egypt:
4 Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said
to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
5 And they entered into the land of Egypt with others
that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
6 And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and
corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed
down to him,
7 And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers
somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of
Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.
8 And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by
them.
9 And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had
dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts
of the land.
10 But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy
servants are come to buy food.
11 We are all the sons of one man: we are come as
peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
12 And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come
to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
13 But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren,
the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father,
the other is not living.
14 He saith: This is it that I said: You are spies.
15 I shall now presently try what you are: by the
health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
16 Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in
prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else
by the health of Pharao you are spies.
17 So he put them in prison three days.
18 And the third day he brought them out of prison, and
said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
19 If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be
bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought,
unto your houses.
20 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may
find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
21 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer
these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguished
of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this
affliction come upon us.
22 And Ruben one of them, said: Did not I say to you:
Do not sin against the boy: and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is
required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he
spoke to them by an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself away a little while, and wept:
and returning he spoke to them.
25 And taking Simeon, and binking him in their
presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put
every man's money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for
the way: and they did so.
26 But they having loaded their asses with the corn,
went their way.
27 And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast
provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack's mouth;
28 And said to his brethren: My money is given me again,
hehold it is in the sack. And thye were astonished, and troubled, and said to
one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?
29 And they came to Jacob their father in the land of
Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:
30 The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took
us to be spies of the country.
31 And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we
mean no plot.
32 We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is
not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.
33 And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are
peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary
provision for your houses, and go your ways.
34 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may
know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in
prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.
35 When they had told this, they poured out their corn
and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being
astonished together,
36 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be
without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin
you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.
37 And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons if I bring
him not again to thee: deliver him unto my hand, and I will restore him to
thee.
38 But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his
brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land
to which you go, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to hell.
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