Genesis 44 Free Bible Version
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1 Joseph ordered his household supervisor, “Fill the men's sacks with as much grain as they can hold and put each man's money at the top of his sack.
1 Y MANDÓ José al mayordomo de su casa, diciendo: Hinche los costales de aquestos varones de alimentos, cuanto pudieren llevar, y pon el dinero de cada uno en la boca de su costal:
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 Then put my special silver cup at the top of the sack of the youngest, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph told him.
2 Y pondrás mi copa, la copa de plata, en la boca del costal del menor, con el dinero de su trigo. Y él hizo como dijo José.
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 At sunrise they were sent on their way with their donkeys.
3 Venida la mañana, los hombres fueron despedidos con sus asnos.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
4 They had hardly left the city when Joseph told his household supervisor, “Go after those men, and when you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you paid back good with evil by stealing my master's silver cup?
4 Habiendo ellos salido de la ciudad, [de la] que aun no se habían alejado, dijo José á su mayordomo: Levántate, y sigue á esos hombres; y cuando los alcanzares, diles: ¿Por qué habéis vuelto mal por bien?
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 This is the cup he personally drinks from, and which he uses for divination. What you've done is really evil!’”
5 ¿No es ésta en la que bebe mi señor, y por la que suele adivinar? habéis hecho mal en lo que hicisteis.
5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
6 When he caught up with them, he told them what Joseph had said.
6 Y como él los alcanzó, díjoles estas palabras.
6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
7 “My lord, what are you saying?” they replied. “We your servants wouldn't do anything like that!
7 Y ellos le respondieron: ¿Por qué dice mi señor tales cosas? Nunca tal hagan tus siervos.
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 Remember that we brought back the money we found at the top of our sacks when we returned from Canaan. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
8 He aquí, el dinero que hallamos en la boca de nuestros costales, te lo volvimos á traer desde la tierra de Canaán; ¿cómo, pues, habíamos de hurtar de casa de tu señor plata ni oro?
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 If any one of us is found with it, he shall die, and all of us will become your slaves.”
9 Aquel de tus siervos en quien fuere hallada [la copa], que muera, y aun nosotros seremos siervos 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 “Whatever you say,” the man replied, “but only the one found with it will become my slave since the rest of you will be free of any blame.”
10 Y él dijo: También ahora sea conforme á vuestras palabras; aquél en quien se hallare, será mi siervo, y vosotros seréis sin culpa.
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 They all unloaded their sacks and put them on the ground. They each opened their own sacks.
11 Ellos entonces se dieron prisa, y derribando cada uno su costal en tierra, abrió cada cual el costal suyo.
11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
12 The household supervisor searched the sacks, beginning with the oldest and working his way down to the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
12 Y buscó; desde el mayor comenzó, y acabó en el menor; y la copa fué hallada en el costal de Benjamín.
12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 The brothers tore their clothes in grief. Then they loaded their sacks back on their donkeys and headed back to the city.
13 Entonces ellos rasgaron sus vestidos, y cargó cada uno su asno, y volvieron á la ciudad.
13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
14 Joseph was still at home when Judah and his brothers arrived, and they fell to the ground before him.
14 Y llegó Judá con sus hermanos á casa de José, que aun estaba allí, y postráronse delante de él en tierra.
14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
15 “Why did you do this?” Joseph asked. “Don't you know a man like me can find out things through divination?”
15 Y díjoles José: ¿Qué obra es esta que habéis hecho? ¿no sabéis que un hombre como yo sabe adivinar?
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 “My lord, what can we say?” Judah replied. “How can we explain this to you? In what way can we prove our innocence? God has exposed the guilt of your servants. My lord, we are your slaves—all of us, including the one who was found with the cup.”
16 Entonces dijo Judá: ¿Qué diremos á mi señor? ¿qué hablaremos? ¿ó con qué nos justificaremos? Dios ha hallado la maldad de tus siervos: he aquí, nosotros somos siervos de mi señor, nosotros, y también aquél en cuyo poder fué hallada 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 “I wouldn't do anything like that!” Joseph replied. “Only the man who was found with the cup will become my slave. The rest of you are free to return to your father.”
17 Y él respondió: Nunca yo tal haga: el varón en cuyo poder fué hallada la copa, él será mi siervo; vosotros id en paz á vuestro 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 Judah came closer and said to him, “If you please, my lord, let your servant just say a word. Please don't become angry with your servant, even though you are as powerful as Pharaoh himself.
18 Entonces Judá se llegó á él, y dijo: Ay señor mío, ruégote que hable tu siervo una palabra en oídos de mi señor, y no se encienda tu enojo contra tu siervo, pues que tú eres como Faraón.
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 My lord, previously you asked us, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
19 Mi señor preguntó á sus siervos, diciendo: ¿Tenéis padre ó hermano?
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
20 We told you, my lord, ‘We have an elderly father, and a younger brother, born when our father was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's children left, and his father loves him dearly.’
20 Y nosotros respondimos á mi señor: Tenemos un padre anciano, y un mozo que le nació en su vejez, pequeño [aún]; y un hermano suyo murió, y él quedó solo de su madre, y su padre lo ama.
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 Then you ordered us, ‘Bring him here to me so I can see him.’
21 Y tú dijiste á tus siervos: Traédmelo, y pondré mis ojos sobre él.
21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
22 We told you, ‘The boy can't leave his father; if he did, his father would die.’
22 Y nosotros dijimos á mi señor: El mozo no puede dejar á su padre, porque si le dejare, 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 But you told us, ‘If your youngest brother doesn't come with you, you won't see me again.’
23 Y dijiste á tus siervos: Si vuestro hermano menor no descendiere con vosotros, no veáis más mi rostro.
23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
24 So when we went back to your servant, our father, we explained to him everything you had told us.
24 Aconteció pues, que como llegamos á mi padre tu siervo, contámosle las palabras de mi señor.
24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25 However, later on, our father told us, ‘Go back and buy some more food.’
25 Y dijo nuestro padre: Volved á comprarnos un poco de alimento.
25 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
26 But we said, ‘There's no way we can go back unless Benjamin our youngest brother goes with us, because we won't be able to see the man if Benjamin isn't with us.’
26 Y nosotros respondimos: No podemos ir: si nuestro hermano fuere con nosotros, iremos; porque no podemos ver el rostro del varón, no estando con nosotros nuestro hermano el menor.
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 Then my father said to us, ‘You realize that my wife had two sons for me.
27 Entonces tu siervo mi padre nos dijo: Vosotros sabéis que dos me parió mi mujer;
27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28 One is no more, ripped to pieces no doubt, for I've never seen him since.
28 Y el uno salió de conmigo, y pienso de cierto que fué despedazado, y hasta ahora no le he visto;
28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
29 If you take this one away from me too, and something bad happens to him, you'll send this old man to his grave in grief.’
29 Y si tomareis también éste de delante de mí, y le aconteciere [algún] desastre, haréis descender mis canas con dolor á la sepultura.
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 So if the boy isn't with us when I go back to my father, whose life depends on the life of the boy,
30 Ahora, pues, cuando llegare yo á tu siervo mi padre, y el mozo no fuere conmigo, como su alma está ligada al alma de él,
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 as soon as he sees the boy isn't there he'll die, and we will really send this old man, our father, to his grave in grief.
31 Sucederá que cuando no vea al mozo, morirá: y tus siervos harán descender las canas de tu siervo nuestro padre con dolor á la sepultura.
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 In fact I gave myself as the guarantee for the boy to my father. I told him, ‘If I don't bring him back to you, then I will always carry the blame!’
32 Como tu siervo salió por fiador del mozo con mi padre, diciendo: Si no te lo volviere, entonces yo seré culpable para mi padre todos los días;
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 So please let me stay here as my lord's slave instead of the boy. Let him go back home with his brothers.
33 Ruégote por tanto que quede ahora tu siervo por el mozo por siervo de mi señor, y que el mozo vaya 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 For how could I ever go back to my father if the boy wasn't with me? I couldn't stand seeing the anguish that would cause my father.”
34 Porque ¿cómo iré yo á mi padre sin el mozo? No podré, por no ver el mal que sobrevendrá á mi padre.
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)
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- 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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