创世记 45
1 约瑟在左右站着的人面前情不自禁，吩咐一声说：“人都要离开我出去！”约瑟和弟兄们相认的时候并没有一人站在他面前。
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood before him, so he cried out, "Send everyone away from me." So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2 他就放声大哭；埃及人和法老家中的人都听见了。
And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the house of Pharaoh heard about it.
3 约瑟对他弟兄们说：“我是约瑟。我的父亲还在吗？”他弟兄不能回答，因为在他面前都惊惶。
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?" But his brothers couldn't answer him, for they were terrified at his presence.
4 约瑟又对他弟兄们说：“请你们近前来。”他们就近前来。他说：“我是你们的兄弟约瑟，就是你们所卖到埃及的。
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." So they moved closer. And he said, "I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5 现在，不要因为把我卖到这里自忧自恨。这是 神差我在你们以先来，为要保全生命。
Now do not be upset or angry with yourselves that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6 现在这地的饥荒已经二年了，还有五年不能耕种，不能收成。
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
7 神差我在你们以先来，为要给你们存留余种在世上，又要大施拯救，保全你们的生命。
God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 这样看来，差我到这里来的不是你们，乃是 神。他又使我如法老的父，作他全家的主，并埃及全地的宰相。
So now, it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 你们要赶紧上到我父亲那里，对他说：‘你儿子约瑟这样说： 神使我作全埃及的主，请你下到我这里来，不要耽延。
Now hurry and go up to my father and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Do not delay.
10 你和你的儿子孙子，连牛群羊群，并一切所有的，都可以住在歌珊地，与我相近。
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, and your children's children, and your flocks, and your herds, and everything that you have.
11 我要在那里奉养你；因为还有五年的饥荒，免得你和你的眷属，并一切所有的，都败落了。’
There I will provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, otherwise you and your household and all that you have would become destitute.
12 况且你们的眼和我兄弟便雅悯的眼都看见是我亲口对你们说话。
Look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth which is speaking to you.
13 你们也要将我在埃及一切的荣耀和你们所看见的事都告诉我父亲，又要赶紧地将我父亲搬到我这里来。”
So you must tell my father about all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. But you must hurry and bring my father down here."
14 于是约瑟伏在他兄弟便雅悯的颈项上哭，便雅悯也在他的颈项上哭。
Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.
15 他又与众弟兄亲嘴，抱着他们哭，随后他弟兄们就和他说话。
And he kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and after that his brothers talked with him.
16 这风声传到法老的宫里，说：“约瑟的弟兄们来了。”法老和他的臣仆都很喜欢。
Now the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
17 法老对约瑟说：“你吩咐你的弟兄们说：‘你们要这样行：把驮子抬在牲口上，起身往迦南地去。
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this: Load your animals and go. Enter the land of Canaan.
18 将你们的父亲和你们的眷属都搬到我这里来，我要把埃及地的美物赐给你们，你们也要吃这地肥美的出产。
Take your father and your families and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the richness of the land.'
19 现在我吩咐你们要这样行：从埃及地带着车辆去，把你们的孩子和妻子，并你们的父亲都搬来。
Now you are commanded, 'Do this: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father and come.
20 你们眼中不要爱惜你们的家具，因为埃及全地的美物都是你们的。’”
Also, do not worry about your possessions, for the best of all of the land of Egypt is yours."
21 以色列的儿子们就如此行。约瑟照着法老的吩咐给他们车辆和路上用的食物，
So the sons of Israel did that. And Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
22 又给他们各人一套衣服，惟独给便雅悯三百银子，五套衣服；
He gave to all of them, to each one, a change of clothing. But to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
23 送给他父亲公驴十匹，驮着埃及的美物，母驴十匹，驮着粮食与饼和菜，为他父亲路上用。
To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and food and provision for his father on the journey.
24 于是约瑟打发他弟兄们回去，又对他们说：“你们不要在路上相争。”
So he sent his brothers off, and as they departed he said to them, "Do not be fearful on the journey."
25 他们从埃及上去，来到迦南地、他们的父亲雅各那里，
So they went up out of Egypt and came into the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.
26 告诉他说：“约瑟还在，并且作埃及全地的宰相。”雅各心里冰凉，因为不信他们。
And they told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." But he was unmoved, because he did not believe them.
27 他们便将约瑟对他们说的一切话都告诉了他。他们父亲雅各又看见约瑟打发来接他的车辆，心就苏醒了。
But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
28 以色列说：“罢了！罢了！我的儿子约瑟还在，趁我未死以先，我要去见他一面。”
Then Israel said, "I'm convinced. My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
