Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" 2. And he said, "Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may live and not die." 3. So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt. 4. But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "Lest some calamity befall him." 5. And the sons of Israel went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6. Now Joseph was governor over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth. 7. Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. Then he said to them, "Where do you come from?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food." 8. So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. 9. Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!" 10. And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 11. "We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men ; your servants are not spies." 12. But he said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land." 13. And they said, "Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and in fact, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more." 14. But Joseph said to them, "It is as I spoke to you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ 15. "In this manner you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 16. "Send one of you, and let him bring your brother; and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be tested to see whether there is any truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies!" 17. So he put them all together in prison three days. 18. Then Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this and live, for I fear God: 19. "If you are honest men , let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house; but you, go and carry grain for the famine of your houses. 20. "And bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so. 21. Then they said to one another, "We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore this distress has come upon us." 22. And Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us." 23. But they did not know that Joseph understood them , for he spoke to them through an interpreter. 24. And he turned himself away from them and wept. Then he returned to them again, and talked with them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. 25. Then Joseph gave a command to fill their sacks with grain, to restore every man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them. 26. So they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed from there. 27. But as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed at the encampment, he saw his money; and there it was, in the mouth of his sack. 28. So he said to his brothers, "My money has been restored, and there it is, in my sack!" Then their hearts failed them and they were afraid, saying to one another, "What is this that God has done to us?" 29. Then they went to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying: 30. "The man who is lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 31. "But we said to him, ‘We are honest men ; we are not spies. 32. ‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more , and the youngest is with our father this day in the land of Canaan.’ 33. "Then the man, the lord of the country, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men : Leave one of your brothers here with me, take food for the famine of your households, and be gone. 34. ‘And bring your youngest brother to me; so I shall know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men . I will grant your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’" 35. Then it happened as they emptied their sacks, that surprisingly each man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. 36. And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me: Joseph is no more , Simeon is no more , and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me." 37. Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you." 38. But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave."
1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2. "Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind? 3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or by speeches with which he can do no good? 4. Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God. 5. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you. 7. " Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills? 8. Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? 9. What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us? 10. Both the gray–haired and the aged are among us, Much older than your father. 11. Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you? 12. Why does your heart carry you away, And what do your eyes wink at, 13. That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth? 14. "What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous? 15. If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight, 16. How much less man, who is abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like water! 17. "I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare, 18. What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers, 19. To whom alone the land was given, And no alien passed among them: 20. The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor. 21. Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him. 22. He does not believe that he will return from darkness, For a sword is waiting for him. 23. He wanders about for bread, saying , ‘Where is it ?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24. Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They overpower him, like a king ready for battle. 25. For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly against the Almighty, 26. Running stubbornly against Him With his strong, embossed shield. 27. "Though he has covered his face with his fatness, And made his waist heavy with fat, 28. He dwells in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabits, Which are destined to become ruins. 29. He will not be rich, Nor will his wealth continue, Nor will his possessions overspread the earth. 30. He will not depart from darkness; The flame will dry out his branches, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away. 31. Let him not trust in futile things , deceiving himself, For futility will be his reward. 32. It will be accomplished before his time, And his branch will not be green. 33. He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, And cast off his blossom like an olive tree. 34. For the company of hypocrites will be barren, And fire will consume the tents of bribery. 35. They conceive trouble and bring forth futility; Their womb prepares deceit."
23. The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, 24. saying: "Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 25. "Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. 26. "Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh. 27. "Last of all the woman died also. 28. "Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her." 29. Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30. "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. 31. "But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32. ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." 33. And when the multitudes heard this , they were astonished at His teaching. 34. But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question , testing Him, and saying, 36. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37. Jesus said to him, "‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38. "This is the first and great commandment. 39. "And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40. "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." 41. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42. saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They said to Him, " The Son of David." 43. He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying: 44. ‘The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"’? 45. "If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?" 46. And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.