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| Genesis 50:1 | And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him. | And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him. |
| Genesis 50:2 | And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so. | And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. |
| Genesis 50:3 | And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days. | And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mounted for him seventy days. |
| Genesis 50:4 | And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh: | And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao: |
| Genesis 50:5 | My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again. | For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return. |
| Genesis 50:6 | And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him. | And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear. |
| Genesis 50:7 | So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt, | So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, |
| Genesis 50:8 | And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen. | And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen. |
| Genesis 50:9 | And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. | He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was it great company. |
| Genesis 50:10 | And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days. | And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days. |
| Genesis 50:11 | And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan. | And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And there- fore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt. |
| Genesis 50:12 | So his sons did as he had given them orders to do: | So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them. |
| Genesis 50:13 | For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre. | And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the held for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite over against Mambre. |
| Genesis 50:14 | And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt. | And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father. |
| Genesis 50:15 | Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him. | Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another : Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. |
| Genesis 50:16 | So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying, | And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died, |
| Genesis 50:17 | You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping. | That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practiced against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept. |
| Genesis 50:18 | Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants. | And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants. |
| Genesis 50:19 | And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God? | And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God? |
| Genesis 50:20 | As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today. | You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people. |
| Genesis 50:21 | So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words. | Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly. |
| Genesis 50:22 | Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten. | And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Ma-nasses were born on Joseph's knees. |
| Genesis 50:23 | And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees. | After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
| Genesis 50:24 | Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. | And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, Carry my bones with you out of this place: |
| Genesis 50:25 | Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here. | And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt. |
| Genesis 50:26 | So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt. | |
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