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1.Mose 44 | English Standard Version

Joseph Tests His Brothers

1 Then he commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack, 2 and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph told him. 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys. 4 They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?* 5 Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’” 6 When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words. 7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing! 8 Behold, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house? 9 Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord’s servants.” 10 He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.” 11 Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 12 And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 13 Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city. 14 When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground. 15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?” 16 And Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.” 17 But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father.” 18 Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 20 And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ 21 Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23 Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’ 24 “When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25 And when our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’ 26 we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 27 Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. 28 One left me, and I said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since. 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’ 30 “Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life, 31 as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. 32 For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ 33 Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. 34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”

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جام گمشدهٔ يوسف

1 وقتی برادران يوسف آمادهٔ حركت شدند، يوسف به ناظر خانه خود دستور داد كه كيسههای آنها را تا حدی كه میتوانستند ببرند از غله پُر كند و پول هر يک را در دهانهٔ كيسهاش بگذارد. 2 همچنين به ناظر دستور داد كه جام نقرهاش را با پولهای پرداخت شده در كيسه بنيامين بگذارد. ناظر آنچه كه يوسف به او گفته بود انجام داد. 3 برادران صبح زود برخاسته، الاغهای خود را بار كردند و به راه افتادند. 4 اما هنوز از شهر زياد دور نشده بودند كه يوسف به ناظر گفت: «به دنبال ايشان بشتاب و چون به آنها رسيدی بگو: ”چرا به عوض خوبی بدی كرديد؟ چرا جام مخصوص سَروَر مرا كه با آن شراب مینوشد و فال میگيرد دزديديد؟“» 6 ناظر چون به آنها رسيد، هر آنچه به او دستور داده شده بود، به ايشان گفت. 7 آنها به وی پاسخ دادند: «چرا سَروَر ما چنين سخنانی میگويد؟ قسم میخوريم كه مرتكب چنين عمل زشتی نشدهايم. 8 مگر ما پولهايی را كه دفعهٔ پيش در كيسههای خود يافتيم نزد شما نياورديم؟ پس چطور ممكن است طلا يا نقرهای از خانهٔ اربابت دزديده باشيم؟ 9 جام را پيش هر كس كه پيدا كردی او را بكش و بقيهٔ ما هم بردهٔ سَروَرمان خواهيم شد.» 10 ناظر گفت: «بسيار خوب، ولی فقط همان كسی كه جام را دزديده باشد، غلام من خواهد شد و بقيهٔ شما میتوانيد برويد.» 11 آنگاه همگی با عجله كيسههای خود را از پشت الاغ بر زمين نهادند و آنها را باز كردند. 12 ناظر جستجوی خود را از برادر بزرگتر شروع كرده، به كوچكتر رسيد و جام را در كيسهٔ بنيامين يافت. 13 برادران از شدت ناراحتی لباسهای خود را پاره كردند و كيسهها را بر الاغها نهاده، به شهر بازگشتند. 14 وقتی يهودا و ساير برادرانش به خانه يوسف رسيدند، او هنوز در آنجا بود. آنها نزد او به خاک افتادند. 15 يوسف از ايشان پرسيد: «چرا اين كار را كرديد؟ آيا نمیدانستيد مردی چون من به كمک فال میتواند بفهمد چه كسی جامش را دزديده است؟» 16 يهودا گفت: «در جواب سَروَر خود چه بگوييم؟ چگونه میتوانيم بیگناهی خود را ثابت كنيم؟ خواست خداست كه به سزای اعمال خود برسيم. اينک برگشتهايم تا همگی ما و شخصی كه جام نقره در كيسهاش يافت شده، غلامان شما شويم.» 17 يوسف گفت: «نه، فقط شخصی كه جام را دزديده است غلام من خواهد بود. بقيه شما میتوانيد نزد پدرتان بازگرديد.» 18 يهودا جلو رفته، گفت: «ای سَروَر، میدانم كه شما چون فرعون مقتدر هستيد، پس بر من خشمگين نشويد و اجازه دهيد مطلبی به عرض برسانم. 19 دفعه اول كه به حضور شما رسيديم، از ما پرسيديد كه آيا پدر و برادر ديگری داريم؟ 20 عرض كرديم، بلی. پدر پيری داريم و برادر كوچكی كه فرزندِ زمانِ پيری اوست. اين پسر برادری داشت كه مرده است و او اينک تنها پسر مادرش میباشد و پدرمان او را خيلی دوست دارد. 21 دستور داديد آن برادر كوچكتر را به حضورتان بياوريم تا او را ببينيد. 22 عرض كرديم كه اگر آن پسر از پدرش جدا شود، پدرمان خواهد مرد. 23 ولی به ما گفتيد ديگر به مصر برنگرديم مگر اين كه او را همراه خود بياوريم. 24 پس نزد غلامت پدر خويش برگشتيم و آنچه به ما فرموده بوديد، به او گفتيم. 25 وقتی او به ما گفت كه دوباره به مصر برگرديم و غله بخريم، 26 گفتيم كه نمیتوانيم به مصر برويم مگر اين كه اجازه بدهی برادر كوچک خود را نيز همراه ببريم. چون اگر او را با خود نبريم حاكم مصر ما را به حضور نخواهد پذيرفت. 27 پدرمان به ما گفت: ”شما میدانيد كه همسرم راحيل فقط دو پسر داشت. 28 يكی از آنها رفت و ديگر برنگشت. بدون شک حيوانات وحشی او را دريدند و من ديگر او را نديدم. 29 اگر برادرش را هم از من بگيريد و بلايی بر سرش بيايد، پدر پيرتان از غصه خواهد مُرد.“ 30 حال، ای سَروَر، اگر نزد غلامت، پدر خود برگردم و اين جوان كه جان پدرمان به جان او بسته است همراه من نباشد، پدرم از غصه خواهد مُرد. آن وقت ما مسئول مرگ پدر پيرمان خواهيم بود. 32 من نزد پدرم ضامن جان اين پسر شدم و به او گفتم كه هرگاه او را سالم برنگردانم، گناهش تا ابد به گردن من باشد. 33 بنابراين التماس میكنم مرا به جای بنيامين در بندگی خويش نگاه داريد و اجازه دهيد كه او همراه سايرين نزد پدرش برود. 34 زيرا چگونه میتوانم بدون بنيامين نزد پدرم برگردم و بلايی را كه بر سر پدرم میآيد ببينم؟»