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1 Cuando Jacob oyó que en Egipto había trigo, dijo a sus hijos: ―¿Por qué se quedan ahí parados mirándose?
1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
2 He sabido que en Egipto hay trigo. Vayan y compren alimento antes que nos muramos de hambre.
2 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
3 Entonces los diez hermanos mayores de José fueron a Egipto para comprar trigo.
3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4 Pero Jacob no dejó que fuera Benjamín, el hermano menor de José, porque temía que algo malo le pudiera ocurrir, como había sucedido con José antes.
4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
5 De modo que los hijos de Israel fueron a Egipto, junto con mucha gente de otros pueblos, porque el hambre en Canaán era muy grande.
5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 Y como José era el gobernador de todo Egipto y estaba a cargo de la venta del trigo, sus hermanos llegaron y, en señal de respeto, se inclinaron delante de él, hasta tocar el suelo con la frente.
6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
7 José los reconoció instantáneamente, pero hizo como que no los conocía. ―¿De dónde son ustedes? —les preguntó ásperamente. ―Somos de Canaán —respondieron—. Hemos venido a comprar trigo.
7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
8 José recordó los sueños que había tenido cuando todavía vivía con ellos, y les dijo: ―¡Ustedes son espías! ¡Han venido a ver si nuestra tierra se ha debilitado con la escasez!
8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
9 Not in this translation
9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
10 ―¡No, no! —exclamaron—. Sólo hemos venido a comprar alimentos.
10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
11 Somos hijos del mismo padre, somos personas honradas, señor. ¡No somos espías!
11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
12 ―¡Sí, lo son! —insistió—. Han venido a ver si estamos débiles e indefensos.
12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
13 ―Señor —dijeron—, somos doce hermanos y nuestro padre se quedó en Canaán. Nuestro hermano menor se quedó con nuestro padre, y el otro murió.
13 They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”
14 ―¿Sí? —preguntó José—, ¿y eso, prueba algo? Ya lo he dicho: Son espías.
14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
15 De esta manera sabré si la historia que me cuentan es verídica: Juro por la vida del faraón que no saldrán de Egipto hasta que su hermano menor haya venido a mi presencia.
15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
16 Uno de ustedes tiene que ir y traer a su hermano menor. Los demás se quedarán aquí encarcelados. De esta manera sabré si dicen la verdad. Si ocurre que no tienen un hermano menor, sabré con certeza que son espías.
16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
17 Entonces los echó a la cárcel por tres días.
17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
18 Al tercer día les dijo: ―Yo soy hombre temeroso de Dios. Por eso les voy a dar una oportunidad de probar lo que afirman.
18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
19 Si ustedes en verdad son honrados, entonces uno de ustedes se quedará encadenado en la cárcel y los demás podrán volver con el trigo para su familia.
19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
20 Pero tendrán que regresar trayendo a su hermano menor. De esta manera sabré si me están diciendo la verdad. Si han dicho la verdad, los dejaré libres. Y ellos estuvieron de acuerdo con esta proposición.
20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
21 Luego se pusieron a conversar entre ellos y decían: ―Esto nos ha ocurrido como consecuencia de lo que le hicimos a José en nuestra juventud. Vimos el terror y la angustia suya y oímos sus ruegos, pero no le hicimos caso.
21 They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
22 ―Yo les dije que no lo hicieran —dijo Rubén—, pero no me quisieron hacer caso. Ahora tendremos que pagar por lo que hicimos.
22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
23 Desde luego, ellos no sabían que José les entendía, ya que les había hablado por medio de un intérprete.
23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
24 José entonces salió de la sala y buscó un lugar para llorar. Cuando volvió, escogió a Simeón y lo hizo atar delante de ellos.
24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
25 José, entonces, ordenó a sus esclavos que llenaran los costales de los hombres. Pero también ordenó que dentro de los costales colocaran el dinero que sus hermanos habían pagado por el trigo. Además les dio comida para el camino.
25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
26 Ellos cargaron el trigo en los burros y emprendieron el viaje de regreso.
26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
27 Cuando se detuvieron para pasar la noche, uno de ellos abrió su costal para sacar grano, para dar de comer a sus animales y, ¡encontró el dinero dentro del costal!
27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
28 ―¡Miren! —le dijo a sus hermanos—, ¡el dinero que yo pagué está en mi costal! Quedaron todos llenos de terror. Temblando se decían unos a otros: ―¿Qué es lo que Dios nos ha hecho?
28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
29 En ese estado llegaron a Canaán y le contaron a su padre Jacob todo lo que les había ocurrido.
29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
30 ―El hombre que gobierna ese país nos habló en forma muy severa —le dijeron—, y nos tomó por espías.
30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
31 ―“No, no” —le dijimos—, “somos hombres honrados; no somos espías.
31 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
32 Somos doce hermanos, hijos de un mismo padre; uno murió, y el menor quedó con nuestro padre en la tierra de Canaán”.
32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
33 Entonces nos dijo: ―De esta manera sabré que son lo que dicen ser. Dejen uno de sus hermanos aquí conmigo y lleven el trigo para su familia y regresen a su tierra.
33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
34 Pero tienen que traer a su hermano menor cuando vuelvan. Entonces sabré si son espías u hombres de bien; si demuestran ser lo que han dicho que son, yo les devolveré a su hermano y podrán volver cuantas veces quieran a comprar trigo.
34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”
35 A medida que vaciaban los costales, iban descubriendo que dentro de cada uno estaba el dinero que habían pagado por el trigo. El terror se apoderó de todos ellos y también de su padre.
35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 Entonces Jacob exclamó: ―¡Ustedes me han privado de mis hijos! Perdí a José, luego a Simeón, y ahora quieren llevarse a Benjamín. Todo se ha confabulado en mi contra.
36 Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
37 Entonces Rubén le dijo a su padre: ―Mata a mis dos hijos si no te devuelvo a Benjamín. Yo respondo por su regreso.
37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”
38 Pero Jacob replicó: ―Mi hijo no irá con ustedes, porque José su hermano murió y sólo él me ha quedado de los hijos de su madre. Si algo llegara a sucederle, yo me moriría.
38 He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
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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 (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Acts 7:12; Joshua 7:10; Exodus 20:18; Genesis 42:2; Exodus 5:19
- 2 Genesis 43:8; Matthew 4:4; Psalm 118:17; Genesis 43:2; Genesis 45:9
- 3 Genesis 42:13; Genesis 42:5
- 4 Genesis 42:38; Genesis 43:29; Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:4; Genesis 35:16–19
- 5 Genesis 41:57; Genesis 12:10; Acts 7:11; Genesis 26:1; Acts 11:28
- 6 Genesis 41:55–56; Genesis 45:26; Acts 7:10; Genesis 19:1; Genesis 44:14
- 7 Genesis 42:30; Genesis 42:19–20; Genesis 42:14–17; Genesis 42:9–12; Matthew 15:23–26
- 8 Genesis 37:2; John 20:14; John 21:4; Luke 24:16
- 10 Genesis 37:8; Genesis 27:37; 1 Kings 18:7; Genesis 27:29; Genesis 44:9
- 11 2 Corinthians 6:4; Genesis 42:19; Genesis 42:33–34; John 7:18
- 13 Genesis 37:30; Genesis 44:20; Genesis 42:32; Genesis 43:7; Matthew 2:16
- 14 Matthew 15:21–28; Genesis 42:9–11; Job 13:24; Job 19:11
- 15 1 Samuel 17:55; Genesis 42:16; Genesis 42:30; Matthew 23:16–22; 1 Samuel 1:26
- 16 Genesis 42:11
- 17 Genesis 40:4; Hebrews 12:10; Genesis 40:7; Genesis 41:10; Isaiah 24:22
- 18 Leviticus 25:43; Nehemiah 5:15; Genesis 20:11; Luke 18:2; Luke 18:4
- 19 Genesis 42:26; Genesis 40:3; Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 42:22; Genesis 42:1–2
- 20 Genesis 42:34; Genesis 43:5; Genesis 44:23; Genesis 42:15; John 2:5
- 21 Hosea 5:15; Genesis 37:23–28; Job 36:8–9; Mark 9:43–45; 1 Kings 17:18
- 22 Psalm 9:12; 1 Kings 2:32; 2 Chronicles 24:22; Genesis 37:21–22; Genesis 9:5–6
- 23 2 Corinthians 5:20; John 16:13–14
- 24 Genesis 43:30; Genesis 43:14; Isaiah 63:9; Genesis 45:14–15; Luke 19:41
- 25 1 Peter 3:9; Romans 12:17–21; Genesis 45:21; Isaiah 55:1; Matthew 5:44
- 27 Exodus 4:24; Genesis 43:21–22; Luke 10:34; Genesis 44:11; Luke 2:7
- 28 Lamentations 3:37; Isaiah 45:7; Song of Songs 5:6; Lamentations 2:17; 1 Kings 10:5
- 30 Genesis 42:7
- 31 Genesis 42:11
- 33 Genesis 42:19–20; Genesis 42:15
- 34 Genesis 34:10; Genesis 34:21; 1 Kings 10:15; Ezekiel 17:4
- 35 Genesis 43:21; Genesis 43:15; Genesis 42:27–28; Genesis 43:12
- 36 Genesis 43:14; Romans 8:31; 1 Samuel 27:1; Matthew 14:31; Romans 8:28
- 37 Genesis 46:9; Micah 6:7; Genesis 43:9; Genesis 44:32–34
- 38 Genesis 37:35; Genesis 42:4; Genesis 37:33; Genesis 42:13; Genesis 35:16–18
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… brethren who detained her for ten days; Jeroboam also, who received the ten sceptres (tribes), and the ten courts of the tabernacle, and the columns of ten cubits [high], and the ten sons of Jacob who were at first sent into Egypt to buy corn, and the ten apostles to whom the Lord appeared after His resurrection,--Thomas being absent,--represented, according …