然后我们看到他们带着约瑟上路了，而他们已经决定实施他们的恶毒阴谋。全能的神启示这个年幼的孩子，安慰他说，这只是一场必将结束的考验。他会活下来，并且在一天之中，当他的兄弟们不知道他就是约瑟的时候，他会提醒他们对他的阴谋。"当他们带他离去，并决意把他投入井底时，我们便启示他：'你将在他们不认识你的时候，把他们这件事告诉他们。'"（第15节）
Then we see them on their way, Joseph with them, and they intent on putting their wicked plot into effect. God Almighty inspires the young boy, reassuring him that it is only a trial that is certain to come to an end. He will survive and he will remind his brothers of their plot against him on a day when they will not know him to be Joseph. “And when they went away with him, they resolved to cast him into the depths of the well. We revealed [this] to him: ‘You will tell them of this their deed at a time when they shall not know you.’“ (Verse 15)
他们的决心，于是是把他投入井底的黑暗深处，将他从家庭生活中彻底除去。此时，约瑟担心自己的性命，无人帮助他，而他的十个成年且强壮的兄弟却与他为敌，他不过是个年幼的孩子。就在这时，他通过启示得到了安慰：他将获救，并将活到他提醒他们所犯罪行的那一天。到那时，他们将不知道他就是他们曾投入井中的兄弟。
Their resolve, then, was to cast him into the dark depths of a well to remove him altogether from their family life. At this point when Joseph fears for his life, when there’s no one to help him and ten adult and powerful brothers against him, a mere young child, reassurance comes to him through inspiration that he will be saved and will live until such a time as he reminds them of their crime. At that point in the future, they will not know that he is their brother whom they had thrown into the well.
我们现在暂且离开约瑟夫，让他独自面对考验——他无疑已蒙受真主的启示而安心——转而看看他的兄弟们在犯下罪行之后，面对悲伤的父亲的情形："到了晚上，他们哭着来到父亲那里，说：'父亲啊，我们去赛跑，把约瑟夫留在我们的东西旁边，结果狼把他吃掉了。即使我们说的是实话，您也不会相信我们。'他们还拿来了沾着假血的衬衣。他说：'不，是你们的心唆使你们做了坏事。忍耐才是美好的！我只向真主求助，以应对你们所描述的这场灾难。'"（第16-18节）
We leave Joseph now to face his ordeal, undoubtedly reassured by God’s inspiration, to look at his brothers facing their saddened father after committing their crime: “At nightfall they came to their father weeping, and said: ‘Father, we went off racing and left Joseph behind with our belongings, and the wolf devoured him. But you will not believe us even though we are saying the truth.’ And they produced his shirt stained with false blood. He said: No, but your minds have tempted you to evil. Sweet patience! It is to God alone that I turn for support in this misfortune that you have described.’” (Verses 16-18)
他们的盲目使得他们的阴谋并不完美。如果他们采取更加冷静的方式，那么在父亲第一次允许他们带约瑟夫同行时，他们本不会伤害约瑟夫。然而他们太过急躁，担心不会再有第二次机会。我们还能从他们选择的借口中看到这种急躁：他们指控狼。父亲就在前一晚警告过他们提防这种可能，而他们却把整件事说得荒谬离奇。父亲明确警告过的危险，他们竟然任由约瑟夫陷入其中，这本身就难以令人信服。同样的急躁也体现在他们用血涂抹约瑟夫衬衫的方式上：他们没有费心让它看起来真实。这一行为过于仓促，暴露了他们的谎言，以至于那血本身也被描述为谎言，即虚假的。
Their blindness meant their plot was imperfect. Had they taken a calmer approach, they would not have harmed Joseph the first time their father permitted them to take him with them. But they were impatient, fearing that they might not have another chance. We also see an aspect of their impatience in their choice of excuse, accusing the wolf. Their father warned them against this possibility only the night before, and they made the whole episode sound outrageous. It was just not plausible that they abandoned Joseph to the risk their father specifically warned them against. The same impatience is seen in the way they stained Joseph’s shirt with blood, without bothering to make it look real. The action was hasty, betraying their lies, so much so that the blood itself is described as lies, or false.
他们做完这一切之后,"黄昏时分,他们哭着回到父亲那里,说:
They did all this and then “At nightfall they came to their father weeping, and said:
“父亲啊，我们去赛跑，把约瑟留在我们的东西旁边，结果狼把他吃掉了。”（第16-17节）他们说出这话时，似乎也意识到这番说辞太过牵强。说谎的人往往会暴露自己。因此，他们在这番虚假的陈述之后又补充了这样一句话：
‘Father, we went off racing and left Joseph behind with our belongings, and the wolf devoured him.” (Verses 16-17) As they said this, they seemed to realize it was all too thin. A liar often betrays himself. Hence they followed their false statement with this remark:
“但即使我们说的是真话，你们也不会相信我们。”（第17节）你们心存疑虑，不信任我们，所以即便我们说的是实话，你们也不会相信。
“But you will not believe us even though we are saying the truth.” (Verse 17) You have your doubts and you do not trust us, so you will not believe us even when we say the truth.
有如此强烈的迹象，而且他内心有某种声音告诉他并非如此，雅各布觉得约瑟并没有被狼吃掉，而是他的兄弟们把他丢弃在某个地方。他意识到他们的说法是编造的，所描述的情形显然是假的。他当面质问他们，说他们的内心使一件可怕的事在他们眼中变得可以接受，并怂恿他们去做。他宣布，自己将在这场灾难中保持忍耐。他既不慌乱，也不抱怨，只求上帝的扶助，以对抗他们捏造的谎言：“他说：不然，是你们的心怂恿你们做了恶事。忍耐是美好的！我只向上帝寻求支持，抵御你们所描述的这场灾难。”（第18节）
With such strong indications, an with something in his heart telling him otherwise, Jacob felt that Joseph had not been eaten by a wolf, and that his brothers had ditched him somewhere. He realized that their story was concocted and what they described was plainly false. He faced them with this, saying that their minds had made something ghastly appear acceptable to them and urged them to commit it. He declared that he would be patient under this adversity. He would neither panic nor complain. He would seek only God’s support against their fabricated lies: “He said: No, but your minds have tempted you to evil. Sweet patience! It is to God alone that I turn for support in this misfortune that you have described.’” (Verse 18)
现在我们快速回到井中的约瑟，看看这一集的最后一幕：“有一支商队经过，他们派去取水的人放下水桶到井里，[当他看见约瑟时]他喊道：‘真幸运，这里有个男孩！’他们把他藏起来，打算把他卖掉；但真主完全知道他们所做的事。他们以低廉的价格把他卖掉，只得几枚银币。他们就是这样轻贱他的。”（第19-20节）
Now we quickly return to Joseph in the well to see the last scene of this first episode: “And there came a caravan; and they sent their water- drawer, and he let down his bucket into the well — [and when he saw Joseph] he cried: ‘What good luck. Here is a boy!’ They concealed him with a view to selling him; but God had full knowledge of what they were doing. And they sold him for a paltry price, a few silver coins. Thus low did they value him.” (Verses 19-20)
这口井位于商队路线的一侧，商队总会在能找到水的地方取水，无论是在井里，还是在雨水聚集的坑洼之中。
The well was by the side of the caravan route, and caravans always take water wherever they can find it, whether in wells or in pits where rain water gathers.
"有一支商队来了。" 这里用来指商队的词是sayyārah，它源自长途旅行。"他们派出了他们的取水人"，即被指派为商队寻找水源的人，因为他在这一至关重要的事务上有经验。他做了平常的事：把水桶放入井中，以确认井水未干，或把水桶打满。这章经文没有提及约瑟夫看到水桶被放下时的反应，也没有提及他迅速抓住水桶的动作，从而使读者和听众同样感到惊奇。
“There came a caravan.” The term used here to refer to the caravan is sayyārah, which derives from long travel. “They sent their water- drawer,” i.e. the person assigned the task of finding water for the caravan because he is experienced in such a vital matter. He does the normal thing, letting down his bucket into the well, to make sure that it is not dry, or to fill the bucket. The sūrah does not mention any details of Joseph’s reaction when he saw the bucket being lowered and his quick movement to attach himself to it, so as to keep it a surprise to reader and listener alike.
当打水的人看见约瑟时，他大喊一声："好运气！这里有个男孩！"这里又一次略去了接下来的一切：所说的话、所采取的行动，以及约瑟被拉出井时是多么高兴。相反，这章经文立即讲述了他与商队的处境："他们把他藏起来，打算将他卖掉。"（第19节）这意味着他们把他当作秘密的货物，因此也就是可以卖掉的东西。
When the water-drawer sees Joseph, he lets out a cry: “What good luck. Here is a boy!” Once again, all that follows is deleted: what was said, what action was taken, and how pleased Joseph was when he was pulled out of the well. Instead, the sūrah speaks immediately of his situation with the caravan: “They concealed him with a view to selling him.” (Verse 19) This means that they considered him secret merchandise and thereby something they could sell.
他们意识到他并非奴隶,这也解释了他们为何将他藏匿起来。随后,他们把他贱价卖掉:"他们以低廉的价格卖了他,几枚银币。"(第20节)那是当时的货币。人们在价格低时只数硬币,在价格高时则要称重。这里经文提到数银币,正是为了表明他们卖得多么便宜。
They realized that he was not a slave, which accounts for why they hid him. Then, they sold him on the cheap: “And they sold him for a paltry price, a few silver coins.” (Verse 20) That was their currency at the time. People only counted coins however when the price was low, and weighed them when the price was high. Here the sūrah speaks of counting the coins to indicate how cheaply they sold him.
“他们就这样贱卖了他。”（第20节）他们急于摆脱他，以免还要为奴役并出卖一个自由人的孩子而承担责任。
“Thus low did they value him.” (Verse 20) They wanted rid of him quickly so that they did not have to account for enslaving and selling a free child.
这样，这位崇高的先知一生中的第一次考验就此结束了。
Thus the first trial in the life of this noble prophet is over.