¹ Kui Jaakob kuulis, et Egiptuses oli vilja, siis Jaakob ütles oma poegadele: 'Miks te üksteisele otsa vaatate?'

² Ja ta ütles: 'Vaata, ma olen kuulnud, et Egiptuses on vilja. Minge sinna ja ostke meile sealt, et jääksime elama ega sureks!'

³ Siis läks kümme Joosepi venda Egiptusest vilja ostma.

⁴ Aga Benjamini, Joosepi venda, Jaakob ei läkitanud koos vendadega, sest ta ütles: 'Et temale õnnetust ei juhtuks!'

⁵ Ja Iisraeli pojad tulid vilja ostma teiste tulijate seltsis, sest Kaananimaal oli nälg.

⁶ Joosep oli maal valitsejaks; tema müüs vilja kogu maa rahvale. Ja Joosepi vennad tulid ning kummardasid tema ette silmili maha.

⁷ Kui Joosep nägi oma vendi, siis ta tundis nad ära, aga tegi ennast neile võõraks ja rääkis nendega karmilt ning küsis neilt: 'Kust te tulete?' Ja nad vastasid: 'Kaananimaalt, et leiba osta.'

⁸ Joosep tundis oma vendi, aga nemad ei tundnud teda.

⁹ Siis meenusid Joosepile unenäod, mis ta neist unes oli näinud, ja ta ütles neile: 'Te olete maakuulajad. Olete tulnud vaatama, kust maa lahti on!'

¹⁰ Aga nemad ütlesid: 'Ei, mu isand, su sulased on tulnud leiba ostma.

¹¹ Me kõik oleme ühe mehe pojad, oleme ausad mehed, su sulased ei ole maakuulajad.'

¹² Tema aga ütles neile: 'Ei, küllap olete tulnud vaatama, kust maa lahti on!'

¹³ Siis nad vastasid: 'Meie, su sulased, olime kaksteist venda, ühe mehe pojad Kaananimaalt. Ja vaata, noorim on praegu Meie isa juures, aga ühte ei ole enam olemas.'

¹⁴ Aga Joosep ütles neile: 'See on nõnda, nagu ma teile olen rääkinud ja öelnud: te olete maakuulajad!

¹⁵ Selles asjas ma katsun teid läbi: nii tõesti kui vaarao elab, ei pääse te siit minema enne, kui teie noorim vend on siia tulnud!

¹⁶ Läkitage eneste hulgast üks, et ta tooks teie venna. Teid aga jäetakse vangi ja teie kõnesid uuritakse, kas neis on tõtt. Muidu olete, nii tõesti kui vaarao elab, maakuulajad!'

¹⁷ Ja ta pani nad üheskoos kolmeks päevaks vahi alla.

¹⁸ Ja kolmandal päeval ütles Joosep neile: 'Tehke seda, siis jääte elama! Mina olen jumalakartlik:

¹⁹ kui olete ausad mehed, jäägu üks teie vendadest aheldatuna hoonesse, kus te olite vahi all, aga teised minge viige vilja näljahäda pärast teie kodudes

²¹ Ja nad ütlesid üksteisele: 'Me oleme tõesti süüdi oma venna pärast, kelle hinge kitsikust me nägime, kui ta palus meilt armu ja meie ei võtnud teda kuulda. Sellepärast on see kitsikus meile tulnud!'

²² Ja Ruuben vastas neile, öeldes: 'Eks ma rääkinud teile ja öelnud: Ärge tehke pattu poisi vastu! Aga teie ei kuulanud. Vaata, nüüd nõutaksegi tema verd!'

²³ Aga nad ei teadnud, et Joosep seda mõistis, sest ta rääkis nendega tõlgi kaudu.

²⁴ Ja ta pöördus ära nende juurest ning nuttis; siis ta tuli tagasi nende juurde ja rääkis nendega ning võttis nende hulgast Siimeoni ja laskis tema nende silme ees vangistada.

²⁵ Ja Joosep käskis täita nende kotid viljaga, panna igaühe raha tagasi ta kotti ja anda neile teemoona; ja neile tehti nõnda.

²⁶ Siis nad tõstsid vilja eeslite selga ja läksid sealt ära.

²⁷ Kui üks oma koti avas, et öömajal eeslile toitu anda, siis ta nägi oma raha, ja vaata, see oli koti suus.

²⁸ Ja ta ütles oma vendadele: 'Mu raha on tagasi antud, ja vaata, see on mu kotis!' Siis kadus nende julgus ja nad värisesid, öeldes isekeskis: 'Miks on Jumal meile seda teinud?'

²⁹ Ja nad tulid oma isa Jaakobi juurde Kaananimaale ning andsid temale teada kõik, mis neile oli juhtunud, öeldes:

³⁰ 'See mees, maa isand, rääkis meiega karmilt ja pidas meid salajasiks maakuulajaiks.

³¹ Aga me ütlesime temale: Me oleme ausad mehed, me ei ole maakuulajad.

³² Meid oli kaksteist venda, oma isa pojad. Ühte ei ole enam ja noorim on praegu meie isa juures Kaananimaal.

³³ Ja see mees, maa isand, ütles meile: Sellest ma saan teada, kas te olete ausad: jätke üks oma vendadest minu juurde ja võtke vilja näljahäda pärast teie kodudes ja minge

³⁴ ning tooge oma noorim vend minu juurde, et saaksin teada, et te ei ole maakuulajad, vaid olete ausad mehed. Siis ma annan teile venna tagasi ja te võite maal liikuda vabalt.'

³⁵ Ja kui nad oma kotte tühjendasid, vaata, siis oli igaühe rahakukkur ta kotis! Ja oma rahakukruid nähes hakkasid nemad ja nende isa kartma.

³⁶ Ja nende isa Jaakob ütles neile: 'Te võtate minult lapsed! Joosepit ei ole enam ja Siimeoni ei ole enam ja Benjamini tahate ka võtta. See kõik on tulnud minu peale!'

³⁷ Aga Ruuben rääkis oma isale, öeldes: 'Võid surmata mu mõlemad pojad, kui ma ei too teda sinu juurde! Anna ta minu hooleks ja ma toon ta tagasi sinu juurde!'

³⁸ Kuid tema ütles: 'Minu poeg ei lähe koos teiega alla, sest ta vend on surnud ja tema üksi on üle jäänud. Kui temaga teel, mida te käite, õnnetus juhtub, siis saadate mu hallid juuksed murega hauda!'

¹ Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

² He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

³ Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

⁴ But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."

⁵ The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

⁶ 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.

⁷ 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."

⁸ Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

⁹ Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

¹⁰ They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

¹¹ We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

¹² He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

¹³ They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

¹⁴ Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

¹⁵ By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

¹⁶ 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."

¹⁷ He put them all together into custody for three days.

¹⁸ Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

¹⁹ If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

²⁰ Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

²¹ They said one to 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."

²² 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."

²³ They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

²⁴ 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.

²⁵ 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.

²⁶ They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

²⁷ As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

²⁸ He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

²⁹ They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

³⁰ "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

³¹ We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

³² We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

³³ 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.

³⁴ 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.'"

³⁵ It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

³⁶ 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."

³⁷ Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."

³⁸ 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."