Genèse 50
Louis Segond
50 Joseph se jeta sur le visage de son père, pleura sur lui, et le baisa.
2 Il ordonna aux médecins à son service d'embaumer son père, et les médecins embaumèrent Israël.
3 Quarante jours s'écoulèrent ainsi, et furent employés à l'embaumer. Et les Égyptiens le pleurèrent soixante-dix jours.
4 Quand les jours du deuil furent passés, Joseph s'adressa aux gens de la maison de Pharaon, et leur dit: Si j'ai trouvé grâce à vos yeux, rapportez, je vous prie, à Pharaon ce que je vous dis.
5 Mon père m'a fait jurer, en disant: Voici, je vais mourir! Tu m'enterreras dans le sépulcre que je me suis acheté au pays de Canaan. Je voudrais donc y monter, pour enterrer mon père; et je reviendrai.
6 Pharaon répondit: Monte, et enterre ton père, comme il te l'a fait jurer.
7 Joseph monta, pour enterrer son père. Avec lui montèrent tous les serviteurs de Pharaon, anciens de sa maison, tous les anciens du pays d'Égypte,
8 toute la maison de Joseph, ses frères, et la maison de son père: on ne laissa dans le pays de Gosen que les enfants, les brebis et les boeufs.
9 Il y avait encore avec Joseph des chars et des cavaliers, en sorte que le cortège était très nombreux.
10 Arrivés à l'aire d'Athad, qui est au delà du Jourdain, ils firent entendre de grandes et profondes lamentations; et Joseph fit en l'honneur de son père un deuil de sept jours.
11 Les habitants du pays, les Cananéens, furent témoins de ce deuil dans l'aire d'Athad, et ils dirent: Voilà un grand deuil parmi les Égyptiens! C'est pourquoi l'on a donné le nom d'Abel Mitsraïm à cette aire qui est au delà du Jourdain.
12 C'est ainsi que les fils de Jacob exécutèrent les ordres de leur père.
13 Ils le transportèrent au pays de Canaan, et l'enterrèrent dans la caverne du champ de Macpéla, qu'Abraham avait achetée d'Éphron, le Héthien, comme propriété sépulcrale, et qui est vis-à-vis de Mamré.
14 Joseph, après avoir enterré son père, retourna en Égypte, avec ses frères et tous ceux qui étaient montés avec lui pour enterrer son père.
15 Quand les frères de Joseph virent que leur père était mort, ils dirent: Si Joseph nous prenait en haine, et nous rendait tout le mal que nous lui avons fait!
16 Et ils firent dire à Joseph: Ton père a donné cet ordre avant de mourir:
17 Vous parlerez ainsi à Joseph: Oh! pardonne le crime de tes frères et leur péché, car ils t'ont fait du mal! Pardonne maintenant le péché des serviteurs du Dieu de ton père! Joseph pleura, en entendant ces paroles.
18 Ses frères vinrent eux-mêmes se prosterner devant lui, et ils dirent: Nous sommes tes serviteurs.
19 Joseph leur dit: Soyez sans crainte; car suis-je à la place de Dieu?
20 Vous aviez médité de me faire du mal: Dieu l'a changé en bien, pour accomplir ce qui arrive aujourd'hui, pour sauver la vie à un peuple nombreux.
21 Soyez donc sans crainte; je vous entretiendrai, vous et vos enfants. Et il les consola, en parlant à leur coeur.
22 Joseph demeura en Égypte, lui et la maison de son père. Il vécut cent dix ans.
23 Joseph vit les fils d'Éphraïm jusqu'à la troisième génération; et les fils de Makir, fils de Manassé, naquirent sur ses genoux.
24 Joseph dit à ses frères: Je vais mourir! Mais Dieu vous visitera, et il vous fera remonter de ce pays-ci dans le pays qu'il a juré de donner à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob.
25 Joseph fit jurer les fils d'Israël, en disant: Dieu vous visitera; et vous ferez remonter mes os loin d'ici.
26 Joseph mourut, âgé de cent dix ans. On l'embauma, et on le mit dans un cercueil en Égypte.
创世记 50
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
安葬雅各
50 约瑟伏在父亲身上痛哭，亲吻他， 2 然后吩咐医生用香料保存父亲的遗体。医生遵命而行， 3 按照常例花了四十天处理尸体。埃及人为他哀悼七十天。
4 哀悼的日子完了，约瑟对法老宫中的人说：“如果你们恩待我， 5 请告诉法老，我父亲死前要我起誓把他葬在迦南他自己预备好的坟地。请准许我到迦南去安葬我父亲，我办完丧事就回来。” 6 法老说：“去按照你的誓言埋葬你父亲吧。” 7 于是，约瑟启程去埋葬他的父亲，随行的有法老所有的臣仆和埃及所有的达官贵人， 8 以及约瑟全家、他的众弟兄和雅各的家眷，只有他们的孩子和牛羊仍然留在歌珊。 9 随行的还有大队车辆和兵马，人数众多。 10 他们来到约旦河附近的亚达麦场，在那里痛哭哀悼。约瑟为父亲守丧七天。 11 迦南人看见他们在亚达麦场痛哭，就说：“埃及人在痛哭哀悼。”因此，约旦河附近的那个地方叫亚伯·麦西[a]。 12 以色列的儿子们遵照父亲的遗言， 13 把父亲的遗体带回迦南，安葬在幔利附近、麦比拉田间的洞里。洞和田地都是亚伯拉罕向赫人以弗仑买来作坟地的。 14 葬礼之后，约瑟就跟众弟兄和一切随行的人返回埃及。
上帝的美好旨意
15 约瑟的哥哥们见父亲死了，就说：“约瑟会不会怀恨在心，因我们以前恶待他而报复我们呢？” 16 于是，他们派人去对约瑟说：“你父亲临终时交待这样的话给你， 17 ‘从前你哥哥们恶待你，求你饶恕他们的罪恶和过犯。’我们是你父亲的上帝的仆人，求你饶恕我们的罪恶。”约瑟听见这些话，就哭了。 18 约瑟的哥哥们来见他，俯伏在他面前，说：“我们是你的奴仆。” 19 约瑟对他们说：“你们不要害怕，我岂能代替上帝？ 20 从前你们是要加害于我，但上帝有祂的美意，祂借此保全许多人的性命，正如今日的光景。 21 因此，你们不要害怕，我会照顾你们和你们的儿女。”约瑟好言好语地宽慰他们。
约瑟去世
22 约瑟和他父亲全家住在埃及。约瑟享年一百一十岁。 23 他看到了以法莲的孙子，也曾把玛拿西的儿子玛吉的孩子抱在膝上。 24 一天，约瑟对他的弟兄们说：“我快要死了，但上帝必看顾你们，带你们离开这里，回到祂起誓应许给亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各的地方。” 25 约瑟要以色列的子孙发誓把他的骸骨带回迦南，又说：“上帝必看顾你们。” 26 约瑟享年一百一十岁。他们把他的遗体用香料保存好，放在棺材里，停放在埃及。
Footnotes
- 50:11 “亚伯·麦西”意思是“埃及人在哀哭”。
Genesis 50
New English Translation
The Burials of Jacob and Joseph
50 Then Joseph hugged his father’s face.[a] He wept over him and kissed him. 2 Joseph instructed the physicians in his service[b] to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming.[c] The Egyptians mourned for[d] him seventy days.[e]
4 When the days of mourning[f] had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court,[g] “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,[h] 5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,[i] “I am about to die. Bury me[j] in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’” 6 So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”[k]
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him—the senior courtiers[l] of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt, 8 all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen. 9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.[m]
10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad[n] on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow.[o] There Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. 11 When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a very sad occasion[p] for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called[q] Abel Mizraim,[r] which is beyond the Jordan.
12 So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them. 13 His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite. 14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay[s] us in full[t] for all the harm[u] we did to him?” 16 So they sent word[v] to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave these instructions before he died: 17 ‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.[w] 18 Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, “Here we are; we are your slaves.” 19 But Joseph answered them, “Don’t be afraid. Am[x] I in the place of God? 20 As for you, you meant to harm me,[y] but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.[z] 21 So now, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children.” Then he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.[aa]
22 Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family.[ab] Joseph lived 110 years. 23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation.[ac] He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.[ad]
24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to you[ae] and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give[af] to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” 25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.” 26 So Joseph died at the age of 110. After[ag] they embalmed him, his body[ah] was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Footnotes
- Genesis 50:1 tn Heb “fell on.” The expression describes Joseph’s unrestrained sorrow over Jacob’s death; he probably threw himself across the body and embraced his father.
- Genesis 50:2 tn Heb “his servants the physicians.”
- Genesis 50:3 tn Heb “and forty days were fulfilled for him, for thus are fulfilled the days of embalming.”
- Genesis 50:3 tn Heb “wept for.”
- Genesis 50:3 sn Seventy days. This probably refers to a time of national mourning.
- Genesis 50:4 tn Heb “weeping.”
- Genesis 50:4 tn Heb “the house of Pharaoh.”
- Genesis 50:4 tn Heb “in the ears of Pharaoh.”
- Genesis 50:5 tn Heb “saying.”
- Genesis 50:5 tn The imperfect verbal form here has the force of a command.
- Genesis 50:6 tn Heb “he made you swear on oath.”
- Genesis 50:7 tn Or “dignitaries”; Heb “elders.”
- Genesis 50:9 tn Heb “camp.”
- Genesis 50:10 sn The location of the threshing floor of Atad is not certain. The expression the other side of the Jordan could refer to the eastern or western bank, depending on one’s perspective. However, it is commonly used in the OT for Transjordan. This would suggest that the entourage came up the Jordan Valley and crossed into the land at Jericho, just as the Israelites would in the time of Joshua.
- Genesis 50:10 tn Heb “and they mourned there [with] very great and heavy mourning.” The cognate accusative, as well as the two adjectives and the adverb, emphasize the degree of their sorrow.
- Genesis 50:11 tn Heb “this is heavy mourning for Egypt.”
- Genesis 50:11 tn The verb has no expressed subject and so it may be translated as passive.
- Genesis 50:11 sn The name Abel Mizraim means “the mourning of Egypt.”
- Genesis 50:15 tn The imperfect tense could be a simple future; it could also have a desiderative nuance.
- Genesis 50:15 tn The infinitive absolute makes the statement emphatic, “repay in full.”
- Genesis 50:15 tn Or “evil.”
- Genesis 50:16 tn The verb means “command,” but they would hardly be commanding him. It probably means they sent their father’s instructions to Joseph.
- Genesis 50:17 tn Heb “and Joseph wept when they spoke to him.”
- Genesis 50:19 tn Heb “For am I.”
- Genesis 50:20 tn Heb “you devised against me evil.”
- Genesis 50:20 tn Heb “God devised it for good in order to do, like this day, to preserve alive a great nation.”
- Genesis 50:21 tn Heb “spoke to their heart.”
- Genesis 50:22 tn Heb “he and the house of his father.”
- Genesis 50:23 tn Heb “saw Ephraim, the children of the third.”
- Genesis 50:23 tn Heb “generation. Also the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.” The expression "born on the knees" implies their adoption by Joseph, which meant that they received an inheritance from him.
- Genesis 50:24 tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit,” i.e., to intervene for blessing or cursing; here Joseph announces that God would come to fulfill the promises by delivering them from Egypt. The statement is emphasized by the use of the infinitive absolute with the verb: “God will surely visit you.”
- Genesis 50:24 tn The words “to give” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 50:26 tn Heb “son of a hundred and ten years.”
- Genesis 50:26 tn Heb “he.”
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