Genesis · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Genesis 44 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Después José ordenó al encargado de su casa: «Llena los sacos de estos hombres con todo el alimento que puedan llevar y pon el dinero de cada uno en la boca de su saco.
1 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
2 Pon también mi copa de plata en la boca del saco del menor, junto con el dinero que pagó por el grano». El encargado hizo exactamente lo que José dijo.
2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
3 Al amanecer, dejaron salir a los hombres con sus asnos.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
4 Apenas habían salido de la ciudad cuando José dijo al encargado de su casa: «Ve tras esos hombres. Cuando los alcances, diles: “¿Por qué han pagado el bien con el mal?
4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
5 ¿No es esta la copa de la que bebe mi señor y que usa para conocer cosas ocultas? Han hecho algo muy malo”».
5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
6 El encargado los alcanzó y les dijo esas palabras.
6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
7 Ellos respondieron: «¿Por qué habla así mi señor? Tus siervos jamás harían algo semejante.
7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
8 Nosotros te devolvimos desde Canaán el dinero que encontramos en nuestros sacos. ¿Cómo podríamos robar plata u oro de la casa de tu señor?
8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
9 Si alguno de tus siervos tiene la copa, que muera, y los demás seremos esclavos de mi señor».
9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
10 El encargado respondió: «Está bien. Pero solo el que tenga la copa será mi esclavo; los demás serán libres».
10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
11 Cada uno bajó rápidamente su saco al suelo y lo abrió.
11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
12 El encargado comenzó a buscar desde el mayor hasta el menor. La copa fue encontrada en el saco de Benjamín.
12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 Entonces ellos rasgaron su ropa en señal de dolor. Cada uno volvió a cargar su asno y regresaron a la ciudad.
13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
14 Judá y sus hermanos llegaron a la casa de José. Él todavía estaba allí. Se postraron rostro en tierra delante de él.
14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
15 José les dijo: «¿Qué han hecho? ¿No sabían que un hombre como yo puede descubrir lo que está oculto?».
15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
16 Judá respondió: «¿Qué podemos decir a mi señor? ¿Cómo podemos defendernos o demostrar nuestra inocencia? Dios ha puesto al descubierto la culpa de tus siervos. Ahora somos esclavos de mi señor, tanto nosotros como el que tenía la copa».
16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
17 Pero José dijo: «Jamás haría eso. Solo el hombre que tenía la copa será mi esclavo. Los demás pueden volver en paz a su padre».
17 He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
18 Entonces Judá se acercó a José y dijo: «Por favor, mi señor, permite que tu siervo diga una palabra. No te enojes conmigo, porque tú eres como el faraón para nosotros.
18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
19 Mi señor preguntó a sus siervos: “¿Tienen padre o hermano?”.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
20 Nosotros respondimos: “Tenemos un padre anciano y un hermano menor que nació en su vejez. Su hermano murió, y él es el único hijo que queda de su madre. Su padre lo ama mucho”.
20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
21 Entonces dijiste a tus siervos: “Tráiganlo para que yo lo vea”.
21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
22 Nosotros respondimos: “El muchacho no puede dejar a su padre. Si lo deja, su padre morirá”.
22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
23 Pero dijiste a tus siervos: “Si su hermano menor no viene con ustedes, no volverán a verme”.
23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
24 Cuando regresamos a nuestro padre, tu siervo, le contamos lo que mi señor había dicho.
24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25 Después nuestro padre dijo: “Vuelvan y compren un poco más de alimento”.
25 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
26 Nosotros respondimos: “No podemos ir. Solo iremos si nuestro hermano menor va con nosotros, porque no podremos presentarnos ante aquel hombre si nuestro hermano menor no está con nosotros”.
26 We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27 Entonces tu siervo, nuestro padre, nos dijo: “Ustedes saben que mi mujer me dio dos hijos.
27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28 Uno se fue de mi lado, y yo dije: ‘Sin duda fue despedazado’. Desde entonces no lo he vuelto a ver.
28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
29 Si ahora también se llevan a este y le sucede alguna desgracia, harán que este anciano muera de tristeza”.
29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
30 Por eso, si regreso a tu siervo, mi padre, y el muchacho no está con nosotros, como su vida está unida a la vida del muchacho,
30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
31 cuando vea que el muchacho no está, morirá. Tus siervos harán que nuestro anciano padre muera de tristeza.
31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
32 Yo me hice responsable del muchacho ante mi padre y le dije: “Si no te lo devuelvo, seré culpable delante de ti para siempre”.
32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
33 Por eso, permite que yo me quede como esclavo de mi señor en lugar del muchacho, y deja que él vuelva con sus hermanos.
33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34 ¿Cómo podría volver a mi padre sin el muchacho y ver el dolor que le causaría?».
34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
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Joseph
Betrayed and enslaved, he rose to rule Egypt and saved his family from famine.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 37; 39–50
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 42:25; Genesis 43:16; Genesis 24:2; Isaiah 3:1; Genesis 43:19
- 2 2 Corinthians 8:8; Deuteronomy 13:3; Matthew 10:16; Genesis 42:15–16; Genesis 43:32
- 4 John 10:32; Psalm 35:12; Proverbs 17:13; Deuteronomy 2:16; Psalm 109:5
- 5 2 Kings 21:6; Genesis 30:27; Leviticus 19:26; Genesis 44:15; Deuteronomy 18:10–14
- 7 Genesis 38:16–18; Hebrews 13:18; Genesis 35:22; Genesis 34:25–31; 2 Kings 8:13
- 8 Genesis 43:12; Matthew 19:18; James 2:10–11; Genesis 42:35; Genesis 43:21–22
- 9 Genesis 31:32; Genesis 43:18; Job 31:38–40; Psalm 7:3–5; Genesis 44:16
- 10 Exodus 22:3; Genesis 44:33; Genesis 44:17; Matthew 18:24–25
- 12 Genesis 43:14; Genesis 44:2; Genesis 43:33; Genesis 44:26–32; Genesis 42:36–38
- 13 2 Samuel 1:11; 2 Samuel 13:19; Numbers 14:6; 2 Samuel 1:2; Genesis 37:29–34
- 14 Genesis 50:18; Philippians 2:10–11; Genesis 43:25; Genesis 43:16; Genesis 37:7–10
- 15 Genesis 44:4–5; Genesis 3:13; Genesis 39:8; Genesis 21:26; Genesis 4:10
- 16 Genesis 44:9; Daniel 9:7; Numbers 32:23; Luke 12:2; Joshua 7:18
- 17 Genesis 18:25; Genesis 37:32–33; Proverbs 17:15; Psalm 75:2; Genesis 26:29
- 18 Exodus 32:22; Genesis 41:40; Genesis 18:30; Genesis 18:32; Genesis 41:44
- 19 Genesis 43:7; Genesis 43:29; Genesis 42:7–10
- 20 Genesis 37:3; Genesis 42:38; Genesis 44:27–30; Luke 7:12; Genesis 46:21
- 21 Genesis 42:15; Genesis 42:20; Jeremiah 40:4; Amos 9:4; Genesis 43:29
- 22 Genesis 42:38; Genesis 44:30
- 23 Genesis 43:3; Genesis 43:5; Genesis 42:15–20
- 24 Genesis 42:29–34
- 25 Genesis 43:2; Genesis 43:5
- 26 Genesis 43:4–5; Luke 11:7
- 27 Genesis 46:19; Genesis 35:16–18; Genesis 30:22–25; Genesis 29:28; Genesis 29:18–21
- 28 Genesis 37:33; Genesis 37:13–14; Genesis 42:36; Genesis 42:38
- 29 Genesis 42:38; Genesis 43:14; Deuteronomy 31:17; Genesis 42:36; Genesis 44:31
- 30 1 Samuel 18:1; Genesis 44:34; 1 Samuel 25:29; Genesis 44:31; Genesis 44:17
- 31 Genesis 44:29; Genesis 37:35; 1 Samuel 4:17–18; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 1 Samuel 22:22
- 32 Genesis 43:16; Genesis 43:8–9
- 33 1 John 3:16; Romans 5:7–10; Hebrews 7:22; Exodus 32:32; Romans 9:3
- 34 Esther 8:6; Exodus 18:8; Job 31:29; Psalm 116:3; Psalm 119:143
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