Genesis 43 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ But the scarcity of food was severe in the land.

² And it came to be, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Mitsrayim, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

³ But Yehuḏ

⁴ “If you let our brother go with us, we go down and buy you food.

⁵ “But if you do not let him go, we do not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You do not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ ”

⁶ And Yisra’ĕ

⁷ And they said, “The man kept asking about us and our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ And we informed him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

⁸ And Yehuḏ

⁹ “I myself shall stand guaranty for him – from my hand you are to require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

¹⁰ “For if we had not delayed, truly by now we could have returned this second time.”

¹¹ And their father Yisra’ĕ

¹² “And take double silver in your hand, and take back in your hand the silver that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. It could have been a mistake.

¹³ “And take your brother, and arise, go back to the man.

¹⁴ “And Ě

¹⁵ And the men took that present and Binyamin, and they took double the amount of silver in their hand, and arose and went down to Mitsrayim, and stood before Yosĕ

¹⁶ And Yosĕ

¹⁷ And the man did as Yosĕ

¹⁸ And the men were afraid because they were brought into Yosĕ

¹⁹ So they came near to the man over the house of Yosĕ

²⁰ and said, “O my master, we indeed came down the first time to buy food,

²¹ but it came to be, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks and saw each man’s silver in the mouth of his sack, our silver in its weight. And we have brought it back in our hand.

²² “And we have brought down other silver in our hands to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”

²³ But he said, “Peace be with you, do not be afraid. Your Elohim and the Elohim of your father has given you treasure in your sacks – your silver had come to me!” And he brought Shimʽ

²⁴ And the man brought the men into Yosĕ

²⁵ And they made the present ready for Yosĕ

²⁶ And when Yosĕ

²⁷ And he asked them about their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”

²⁸ And they said, “Your servant our father is in good health, he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads down and did obeisance.

²⁹ And he lifted his eyes and saw his brother Binyamin, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your younger brother of whom you spoke to me?” And he said, “Elohim show favour to you, my son.”

³⁰ And Yosĕ

³¹ Then he washed his face and came out, and controlled himself, and said, “Serve the food.”

³² And they set him a place by himself, and them by themselves, and the Mitsrites who ate with him by themselves, for the Mitsrites could not eat food with the Heḇ

³³ And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth, and the men looked at each other in astonishment.

³⁴ And he took portions to them from before him, but Binyamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they feasted and they drank with him.