¹ Jokūbas, išgirdęs, kad javai parduodami Egipte, tarė savo sūnums: “Ko žiūrite vienas į kitą?

² Girdėjau, kad javai parduodami Egipte. Vykite tenai ir nupirkite javų, kad gyventume ir nemirtume”.

³ Dešimt Juozapo brolių iškeliavo pirkti javų į Egiptą.

⁴ Tačiau Jokūbas neleido Juozapo brolio Benjamino eiti su broliais, nes bijojo, kad jam neatsitiktų nelaimė.

⁵ Izraelio sūnūs kartu su kitais atėjo pirkti javų, nes badas siautė Kanaano šalyje.

⁶ Juozapas buvo Egipto šalies valdytojas. Jis pardavinėjo javus visoms žemės tautoms. Atėję Juozapo broliai nusilenkė prieš jį iki žemės.

⁷ Juozapas, pamatęs savo brolius, atpažino juos, bet jis elgėsi su jais tarsi su svetimais. Šiurkščiai su jais kalbėdamas, klausė: “Iš kur atvykote?” Jie atsakė: “Iš Kanaano šalies maisto pirkti”.

⁸ Juozapas atpažino savo brolius, tačiau jie neatpažino jo.

⁹ Juozapas atsiminė sapnus, kuriuos jis sapnavo apie juos, ir jiems tarė: “Jūs esate žvalgai! Atvykote išžvalgyti silpnesniųjų šalies vietų”.

¹⁰ Jie atsakė jam: “Ne, mūsų viešpatie! Tavo tarnai atėjo nusipirkti maisto.

¹¹ Mes visi esame vieno vyro sūnūs, dori žmonės. Tavo tarnai nėra žvalgai”.

¹² Tačiau jis jiems tarė: “Ne! Jūs atėjote išžvalgyti silpnesniųjų šalies vietų!”

¹³ Jie atsakė: “Tavo tarnų yra dvylika brolių, vieno tėvo sūnų, Kanaano šalyje. Jauniausias liko pas tėvą namuose, o vieno jau nebėra”.

¹⁴ Bet Juozapas jiems atsakė: “Yra taip, kaip jums sakiau. Jūs esate žvalgai!

¹⁵ Taip jūs būsite ištirti. Prisiekiu, kaip gyvas faraonas, jūs neišeisite iš čia, kol atvyks jūsų jaunesnysis brolis!

¹⁶ Pasiųskite vieną iš jūsų atvesti jūsų brolį! Jūs būsite suimti, kol bus ištirti jūsų žodžiai, ar tiesą sakote, ar meluojate. Jei ne, kaip gyvas faraonas, jūs esate žvalgai!”

¹⁷ Tris dienas jis išlaikė juos suimtus.

¹⁸ Trečią dieną Juozapas jiems tarė: “Išliksite gyvi su viena sąlyga, nes aš bijau Dievo.

¹⁹ Jei jūs esate dori, vienas iš jūsų telieka suimtas, o kiti keliaukite, pargabenkite javų savo šeimoms nuo bado apsiginti.

²⁰ Bet atveskite pas mane savo jauniausiąjį brolį, kad jūsų žodžiai pasirodytų tikri ir nemirtumėte!”

²¹ Jie kalbėjosi: “Iš tikrųjų esame nusikaltę savo broliui: mes matėme jo sielvartą, kai jis mus maldavo, bet neklausėme. Todėl šita bėda užklupo mus”.

²² ubenas sakė jiems: “Ar aš jums nesakiau: ‘Nenusikalskite prieš vaiką!’ Bet jūs neklausėte. Todėl štai išieškomas jo kraujas”.

²³ Jie nežinojo, kad Juozapas suprato jų kalbą, nes jis su jais kalbėjo per vertėją.

²⁴ Pasitraukęs nuo jų, jis verkė. Tada sugrįžęs pas juos, kalbėjo toliau. Jis paėmė iš jų Simeoną ir jį surišo jų akyse.

²⁵ Juozapas įsakė pripildyti jų maišus javais, kiekvieno pinigus įdėti atgal į maišą ir jiems duoti davinį kelionei. Tarnai taip ir padarė.

²⁶ Susikrovę savo javų maišus ant asilų, jie iškeliavo.

²⁷ Vienas atrišo savo maišą užeigoje, norėdamas pašerti asilą, ir pamatė pinigus. Jie buvo maišo viršuje.

²⁸ Jis sušuko broliams: “Mano pinigai grąžinti man. Štai jie maiše!” Jų širdys nusiminė, ir jie drebėdami žiūrėjo vienas į kitą ir kalbėjo: “Ką Dievas mums padarė?”

²⁹ Parėję pas savo tėvą Jokūbą į Kanaano šalį, jie papasakojo jam visa, kas jiems nutiko:

³⁰ “Vyras, tos šalies valdovas, šiurkščiai kalbėjo su mumis ir mus palaikė žvalgais.

³¹ Mes jam sakėme: ‘Esame dori žmonės, o ne žvalgai.

³² Mes esame dvylika brolių, vieno tėvo sūnūs. Vieno nebėra, o jauniausias yra pas mūsų tėvą Kanaano šalyje’.

³³ Tas vyras, šalies valdovas, mums atsakė: ‘Patikrinsiu, ar esate dori. Vieną jūsų brolį palikite pas mane, paimkite, ko reikia jūsų šeimoms nuo bado apsiginti, keliaukite

³⁴ ir atsiveskite savo jauniausiąjį brolį, kad įsitikinčiau, jog nesate žvalgai. Tada aš jums atiduosiu jūsų brolį ir galėsite laisvai keliauti!’ ”

³⁵ Išpylę maišus, kiekvienas rado įrištus savo pinigus. Jie ir jų tėvas, pamatę pinigus, nusigando.

³⁶ Jų tėvas Jokūbas kalbėjo: “Jūs padarėte, kad netekau vaikų! Juozapo nebėra, Simeono nebėra, ir Benjaminą norite paimti. Viskas atsisuko prieš mane”.

³⁷ ubenas atsakė savo tėvui: “Nužudyk mano du sūnus, jei aš jo neparvesiu! Patikėk jį man ir aš tau jį sugrąžinsiu”.

³⁸ Tėvas tarė: “Mano sūnus nekeliaus su jumis, nes jo brolis yra miręs ir jis likęs man vienas. Jei kelyje atsitiks jam nelaimė, tai jūs nuvarysite mano žilus plaukus su sielvartu į kapus”.

¹ It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

² Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

³ Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

⁴ The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

⁵ He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

⁶ Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

⁷ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

⁸ It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

⁹ Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.

¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

¹¹ We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

¹² There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

¹³ It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

¹⁵ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

¹⁶ Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

¹⁷ Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

¹⁸ and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

¹⁹ and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

²⁰ The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

²¹ and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

²² I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

²³ and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

²⁴ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

²⁵ Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

²⁶ The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

²⁷ The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

²⁸ That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

³⁰ There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

³¹ and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

³² The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

³³ "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

³⁵ Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

³⁶ The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

³⁷ The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

³⁸ Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

³⁹ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

⁴¹ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

⁴² Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

⁴³ and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁴ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

⁴⁵ Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶ Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁷ In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

⁴⁸ He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

⁴⁹ Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

⁵⁰ To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

⁵¹ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

⁵² The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

⁵³ The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

⁵⁴ The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

⁵⁵ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

⁵⁶ The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

⁵⁷ All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.