Genesis 44

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1 Then Joseph gave his head steward these instructions: "Fill the men's bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his bag.	1 ثم امر الذي على بيته قائلا املأ عدال الرجال طعاما حسب ما يطيقون حمله وضع فضة كل واحد في فم عدله.
2 In the mouth of the youngest one's bag put also my silver goblet, together with the money for his rations." The steward carried out Joseph's instructions.	2 وطاسي طاس الفضة تضع في فم عدل الصغير وثمن قمحه. ففعل بحسب كلام يوسف الذي تكلّم به.
3 At daybreak the men and their donkeys were sent off.	3 فلما اضاء الصبح انصرف الرجال هم وحميرهم.
4 They had not gone far out of the city when Joseph said to his head steward: "Go at once after the men! When you overtake them, say to them, 'Why did you repay good with evil? Why did you steal the silver goblet from me?	4 ولما كانوا قد خرجوا من المدينة ولم يبتعدوا قال يوسف للذي على بيته قم اسع وراء الرجال ومتى ادركتهم فقل لهم لماذا جازيتم شرا عوضا عن خير.
5 It is the very one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination. What you have done is wrong.'"	5 أليس هذا هو الذي يشرب سيدي فيه. وهو يتفاءل به. اسأتم في ما صنعتم
6 When the steward overtook them and repeated these words to them,	6 فادركهم وقال لهم هذا الكلام.
7 they remonstrated with him: "How can my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!	7 فقالوا له لماذا يتكلم سيدي مثل هذا الكلام. حاشا لعبيدك ان يفعلوا مثل هذا الامر.
8 We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money that we found in the mouths of our bags. Why, then, would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?	8 هوذا الفضة التي وجدنا في افواه عدالنا رددناها اليك من ارض كنعان. فكيف نسرق من بيت سيدك فضة او ذهبا.
9 If any of your servants is found to have the goblet, he shall die, and as for the rest of us, we shall become my lord's slaves."	9 الذي يوجد معه من عبيدك يموت. ونحن ايضا نكون عبيدا لسيدي.
10 But he replied, "Even though it ought to be as you propose, only the one who is found to have it shall become my slave, and the rest of you shall be exonerated."	10 فقال نعم الآن بحسب كلامكم هكذا يكون. الذي يوجد معه يكون لي عبدا. واما انتم فتكونون ابرياء.
11 Then each of them eagerly lowered his bag to the ground and opened it;	11 فاستعجلوا وانزلوا كل واحد عدله الى الارض وفتحوا كل واحد عدله.
12 and when a search was made, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest, the goblet turned up in Benjamin's bag.	12 ففتش مبتدأ من الكبير حتى انتهى الى الصغير. فوجد الطاس في عدل بنيامين.
13 At this, they tore their clothes. Then, when each man had reloaded his donkey, they returned to the city.	13 فمزقوا ثيابهم وحمّل كل واحد على حماره ورجعوا الى المدينة
14 As Judah and his brothers reentered Joseph's house, he was still there; so they flung themselves on the ground before him.	14 فدخل يهوذا واخوته الى بيت يوسف وهو بعد هناك. ووقعوا امامه على الارض.
15 "How could you do such a thing?" Joseph asked them. "You should have known that such a man as I could discover by divination what happened."	15 فقال لهم يوسف ما هذا الفعل الذي فعلتم ألم تعلموا ان رجلا مثلي يتفاءل.
16 Judah replied: "What can we say to my lord? How can we plead or how try to prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants' guilt. Here we are, then, the slaves of my lord--the rest of us no less than the one in whose possession the goblet was found."	16 فقال يهوذا ماذا نقول لسيدي. ماذا نتكلم وبماذا نتبرر. الله قد وجد اثم عبيدك. ها نحن عبيد لسيدي نحن والذي وجد الطاس في يده جميعا.
17 "Far be it from me to act thus!" said Joseph. "Only the one in whose possession the goblet was found shall become my slave; the rest of you may go back safe and sound to your father."	17 فقال حاشا لي ان افعل هذا. الرجل الذي وجد الطاس في يده هو يكون لي عبدا. واما انتم فاصعدوا بسلام الى ابيكم
18 Judah then stepped up to him and said: "I beg you, my lord, let your servant speak earnestly to my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are the equal of Pharaoh.	18 ثم تقدم اليه يهوذا وقال استمع يا سيدي. ليتكلم عبدك كلمة في أذني سيدي. ولا يحم غضبك على عبدك. لانك مثل فرعون.
19 My lord asked your servants, 'Have you a father, or another brother?'	19 سيدي سأل عبيده قائلا هل لكم اب او اخ.
20 So we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a young brother, the child of his old age. This one's full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by that mother who is left, his father dotes on him.'	20 فقلنا لسيدي لنا اب شيخ وابن شيخوخة صغير مات اخوه وبقي هو وحده لامه وابوه يحبه.
21 Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me that my eyes may look on him.'	21 فقلت لعبيدك انزلوا به اليّ فاجعل نظري عليه.
22 We replied to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; his father would die if he were to leave him.'	22 فقلنا لسيدي لا يقدر الغلام ان يترك اباه. وان ترك اباه يموت.
23 But you told your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes back with you, you shall not come into my presence again.'	23 فقلت لعبيدك ان لم ينزل اخوكم الصغير معكم لا تعودوا تنظرون وجهي.
24 When we returned to your servant our father, we reported to him the words of my lord.	24 فكان لما صعدنا الى عبدك ابي اننا اخبرناه بكلام سيدي.
25 "Later, our father told us to come back and buy some food for the family.	25 ثم قال ابونا ارجعوا اشتروا لنا قليلا من الطعام.
26 So we reminded him, 'We cannot go down there; only if our youngest brother is with us can we go, for we may not see the man if our youngest brother is not with us.'	26 فقلنا لا نقدر ان ننزل. وانما اذا كان اخونا الصغير معنا ننزل. لاننا لا نقدر ان ننظر وجه الرجل واخونا الصغير ليس معنا.
27 Then your servant our father said to us, 'As you know, my wife bore me two sons.	27 فقال لنا عبدك ابي انتم تعلمون ان امرأتي ولدت لي اثنين.
28 One of them, however, disappeared, and I had to conclude that he must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts; I have not seen him since.	28 فخرج الواحد من عندي وقلت انما هو قد افترس افتراسا. ولم انظره الى الآن.
29 If you now take this one away from me too, and some disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to the nether world in grief.'	29 فاذا اخذتم هذا ايضا من امام وجهي واصابته اذيّة تنزلون شيبتي بشر الى الهاوية.
30 "If then the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, whose very life is bound up with his, he will die as soon as he sees that the boy is missing;	30 فالآن متى جئت الى عبدك ابي والغلام ليس معنا ونفسه مرتبطة بنفسه
31 and your servants will thus send the white head of our father down to the nether world in grief.	31 يكون متى رأى ان الغلام مفقود انه يموت. فينزل عبيدك شيبة عبدك ابينا بحزن الى الهاوية.
32 Besides, I, your servant, got the boy from his father by going surety for him, saying, 'If I fail to bring him back to you, father, you can hold it against me forever.'	32 لان عبدك ضمن الغلام لابي قائلا ان لم اجئ به اليك أصر مذنبا الى ابي كل الايام.
33 Let me, your servant, therefore, remain in place of the boy as the slave of my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.	33 فالآن ليمكث عبدك عوضا عن الغلام عبدا لسيدي ويصعد الغلام مع اخوته.
34 How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father."	34 لاني كيف اصعد الى ابي والغلام ليس معي. لئلا انظر الشر الذي يصيب ابي