Genesis · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Genesis 42 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Και είδεν ο Ιακώβ ότι ευρίσκετο σίτος εν Αιγύπτω· και είπεν ο Ιακώβ προς τους υιούς αυτού, Τι βλέπετε ο εις τον άλλον;
1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
2 Και είπεν, Ιδού, ήκουσα ότι ευρίσκεται σίτος εν Αιγύπτω· κατάβητε εκεί και αγοράσατε δι' ημάς εκείθεν, διά να ζήσωμεν και να μη αποθάνωμεν.
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 Και κατέβησαν οι δέκα αδελφοί του Ιωσήφ διά να αγοράσωσι σίτον εξ Αιγύπτου.
3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4 τον Βενιαμίν όμως, τον αδελφόν του Ιωσήφ, δεν απέστειλεν ο Ιακώβ μετά των αδελφών αυτού· διότι είπε, Μήπως συμβή εις αυτόν συμφορά.
4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
5 Και ήλθον οι υιοί του Ισραήλ διά να αγοράσωσι σίτον μεταξύ των εκεί ερχομένων· διότι η πείνα ήτο εν τη γη Χαναάν.
5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 Ο Ιωσήφ δε ήτο ο διοικητής του τόπου· αυτός επώλει εις πάντα τον λαόν του τόπου· ήλθον λοιπόν οι αδελφοί του Ιωσήφ και προσεκύνησαν αυτόν επί πρόσωπον έως εδάφους.
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 Ιδών δε ο Ιωσήφ τους αδελφούς αυτού, εγνώρισεν αυτούς· προσεποιήθη όμως τον ξένον προς αυτούς και ελάλει προς αυτούς σκληρά· και είπε προς αυτούς, Πόθεν έρχεσθε; οι δε είπον, Εκ της γης Χαναάν, διά να αγοράσωμεν τροφάς.
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 Και ο μεν Ιωσήφ εγνώρισε τους αδελφούς αυτού· εκείνοι όμως δεν εγνώρισαν αυτόν.
8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
9 Και ενεθυμήθη ο Ιωσήφ τα ενύπνια, τα οποία ενυπνιάσθη περί αυτών· και είπε προς αυτούς, Κατάσκοποι είσθε· ήλθετε να παρατηρήσητε τα γυμνά του τόπου.
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 Οι δε είπον προς αυτόν, Ουχί, κύριέ μου· αλλ' ήλθομεν οι δούλοί σου διά να αγοράσωμεν τροφάς·
10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
11 ημείς πάντες είμεθα υιοί ενός ανθρώπου· καλοί άνθρωποι είμεθα· οι δούλοί σου δεν είναι κατάσκοποι.
11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
12 Και είπε προς αυτούς, Ουχί, αλλά τα γυμνά του τόπου ήλθετε διά να παρατηρήσητε.
12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
13 Οι δε είπον, Οι δούλοί σου είμεθα δώδεκα αδελφοί, υιοί ενός ανθρώπου εν τη γη Χαναάν· και ιδού, ο νεώτερος ευρίσκεται σήμερον μετά του πατρός ημών, ο δε άλλος δεν υπάρχει.
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 Και είπε προς αυτούς ο Ιωσήφ, τούτο είναι το οποίον σας είπα λέγων, Κατάσκοποι είσθε.
14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
15 Με τούτο θέλετε δοκιμασθή· Μα την ζωήν του Φαραώ δεν θέλετε εξέλθει εντεύθεν, εάν δεν έλθη εδώ ο αδελφός σας ο νεώτερος·
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 αποστείλατε ένα από σας και ας φέρη τον αδελφόν σας· σεις δε θέλετε μένει δέσμιοι, εωσού αποδειχθώσιν οι λόγοι σας, αν λέγητε την αλήθειαν· ει δε μη, μα την ζωήν του Φαραώ, κατάσκοποι βεβαίως είσθε.
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 Και έθεσεν αυτούς υπό φύλαξιν τρεις ημέρας.
17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
18 Και την τρίτην ημέραν είπε προς αυτούς ο Ιωσήφ, τούτο κάμετε και θέλετε ζήσει διότι εγώ φοβούμαι τον Θεόν·
18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
19 Εάν ήσθε καλοί, εις εκ των αδελφών σας ας μείνη δέσμιος εν τη φυλακή, όπου είσθε· σεις δε υπάγετε, λάβετε σίτον διά την πείναν των οικιών σας·
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 φέρετε όμως προς εμέ τον αδελφόν σας τον νεώτερον· ούτω θέλουσιν αληθεύσει οι λόγοι σας και δεν θέλετε αποθάνει. Και έκαμον ούτω.
20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
21 Και είπεν ο εις προς τον άλλον, Αληθώς ένοχοι είμεθα διά τον αδελφόν ημών, καθότι είδομεν την θλίψιν της ψυχής αυτού, ότε παρεκάλει ημάς και δεν εισηκούσαμεν αυτού· διά τούτο επήλθεν εφ' ημάς η θλίψις αύτη.
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 Απεκρίθη δε ο Ρουβήν προς αυτούς λέγων, Δεν είπον προς εσάς λέγων, Μη αμαρτήσητε κατά του παιδίου, και δεν εισηκούσατε; διά τούτο, ιδού, και το αίμα αυτού εκζητείται.
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 Και αυτοί δεν ήξευρον ότι ενόει ο Ιωσήφ· διότι συνωμίλουν δι' ερμηνέως.
23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
24 Και συρθείς από πλησίον αυτών έκλαυσε· και πάλιν επέστρεψε προς αυτούς και ελάλει εις αυτούς· και έλαβεν εξ αυτών τον Συμεών και έδεσεν αυτόν ενώπιον αυτών.
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 Τότε προσέταξεν ο Ιωσήφ να γεμίσωσι τα αγγεία αυτών σίτον και να επιστρέψωσι το αργύριον εκάστου εν τω σακκίω αυτού και να δώσωσιν εις αυτούς ζωοτροφίαν διά την οδόν· και έγεινεν εις αυτούς ούτω.
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 Και φορτώσαντες τον σίτον αυτών επί τους όνους αυτών, ανεχώρησαν εκείθεν.
26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
27 Ότε δε εις εξ αυτών έλυσε το σακκίον αυτού, διά να δώση εις τον όνον αυτού τροφήν εν τω καταλύματι, είδε το αργύριον αυτού, και ιδού, ήτο εν τω στόματι του σακκίου αυτού.
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 Και είπε προς τους αδελφούς αυτού, το αργύριόν μου μοι εδόθη οπίσω και μάλιστα ιδού, είναι εν τω σακκίω μου· και εξεπλάγη η καρδία αυτών και συνεταράχθησαν, λέγοντες προς αλλήλους, Τι είναι τούτο, το οποίον μας έκαμεν ο Θεός;
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 Ήλθον δε προς Ιακώβ τον πατέρα αυτών εις την γην Χαναάν και απήγγειλαν προς αυτόν πάντα τα συμβάντα εις αυτούς, λέγοντες,
29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
30 Ο άνθρωπος, ο κύριος του τόπου, ελάλησε προς ημάς σκληρά και εξέλαβεν ημάς ως κατασκόπους του τόπου.
30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
31 Και είπομεν εις αυτόν, Είμεθα καλοί άνθρωποι δεν είμεθα κατάσκοποι·
31 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
32 δώδεκα αδελφοί είμεθα, υιοί του πατρός ημών· ο εις δεν υπάρχει ο δε νεώτερος είναι την σήμερον μετά του πατρός ημών εν τη γη Χαναάν.
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 Είπε δε προς ημάς ο άνθρωπος, ο κύριος του τόπου, Με τούτο θέλω γνωρίσει ότι είσθε καλοί άνθρωποι· ένα εκ των αδελφών σας αφήσατε μετ' εμού, και λαβόντες σίτον διά την πείναν των οικιών σας απέλθετε·
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 και φέρετε προς εμέ τον αδελφόν σας τον νεώτερον· τότε θέλω γνωρίσει ότι δεν είσθε κατάσκοποι, άλλ' είσθε καλοί· και θέλω σας αποδώσει τον αδελφόν σας και θέλετε εμπορεύεσθαι εν τω τόπω.
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 Και ότε εκένουν τα σακκία αυτών, ιδού, εκάστου το κομβόδεμα του αργυρίου ήτο εν τω σακκίω αυτού· και ιδόντες αυτοί και ο πατήρ αυτών τα κομβοδέματα του αργυρίου αυτών, εφοβήθησαν.
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 Και είπε προς αυτούς Ιακώβ ο πατήρ αυτών, Σεις με ητεκνώσατε· ο Ιωσήφ δεν υπάρχει και ο Συμεών δεν υπάρχει, και τον Βενιαμίν θέλετε λάβει επ' εμέ ήλθον πάντα ταύτα.
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 Είπε δε ο Ρουβήν προς τον πατέρα αυτού λέγων, τους δύο υιούς μου θανάτωσον, εάν δεν φέρω αυτόν προς σέ· παράδος αυτόν εις την χείρα μου και εγώ θέλω επαναφέρει αυτόν προς σε.
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 Ο δε είπε, δεν θέλει καταβή ο υιός μου μεθ' υμών· διότι ο αδελφός αυτού απέθανε και αυτός μόνος έμεινε· και εάν συμβή εις αυτόν συμφορά εν τη οδώ, όπου υπάγετε, τότε θέλετε καταβιβάσει την πολιάν μου μετά λύπης εις τον τάφον.
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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Betrayed and enslaved, he rose to rule Egypt and saved his family from famine.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 37; 39–50
Cross references (34)
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- 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
- 9 Genesis 37:5–9; Exodus 32:35; Genesis 42:34; Judges 1:24; Numbers 13:16–20
- 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 …