Genesis, 50

1. At this Joseph threw himself on his father's face, covering it with tears and kisses.

1. Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

2. Then Joseph ordered the doctors in his service to embalm his father. The doctors embalmed Israel,

2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

3. and it took them forty days, for embalming takes forty days to complete. The Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.

3. forty days were required for it, for so many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

4. When the period of mourning for him was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's household, 'If you have any affection for me, see that this message reaches Pharaoh's ears,

4. And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5. "My father put me under oath, saying: I am about to die. In the tomb which I dug for myself in Canaan, that is where you are to bury me. So may I have leave to go up and bury my father, and then come back?" '

5. My father made me swear, saying, `I am about to die: in my tomb which I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father; then I will return."

6. Pharaoh replied, 'Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.'

6. And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."

7. Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all Pharaoh's officials, the dignitaries of his palace and all the dignitaries of Egypt,

7. So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8. as well as all Joseph's family, his brothers and his father's family. The only people they left behind in Goshen were those unfit to travel, and their flocks and cattle.

8. as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household; only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

9. Chariots and horsemen went up with him too; it was a very large retinue.

9. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; it was a very great company.

10. On arriving at Goren-ha-Atad, which is across the Jordan, they there held a long and solemn lamentation, and Joseph observed seven days' mourning for his father.

10. When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11. When the Canaanites, the local inhabitants, witnessed the mourning at Goren-ha-Atad, they said, 'This is a solemn act of mourning by the Egyptians,' which is why the place was given the name Abel-Mizraim-it is across the Jordan.

11. When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named A'bel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.

12. His sons did what he had ordered them to do for him.

12. Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them;

13. His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.

13. for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field at Mach-pe'lah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burying place.

14. Then Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had come up with him to bury his father.

14. After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

15. Seeing that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers said, 'What if Joseph intends to treat us as enemies and pay us back for all the wrong we did him?'

15. When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil which we did to him."

16. So they sent this message to Joseph: 'Before your father died, he gave us this order:

16. So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,

17. "You are to say to Joseph: Now please forgive the crime and faults of your brothers and all the wrong they did you." So now please forgive the crime of the servants of your father's God.' Joseph wept at the message they sent to him.

17. `Say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, we pray you, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18. Then his brothers went to him themselves and, throwing themselves at his feet, said, 'Take us as your slaves!'

18. His brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, "Behold, we are your servants."

19. But Joseph replied, 'Do not be afraid; is it for me to put myself in God's place?

19. But Joseph said to them, "Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

20. The evil you planned to do me has by God's design been turned to good, to bring about the present result: the survival of a numerous people.

20. As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

21. So there is no need to be afraid; I shall provide for you and your dependants.' In this way he reassured them by speaking affectionately to them.

21. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he reassured them and comforted them.

22. So Joseph stayed in Egypt with his father's family; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

22. So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

23. Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim's line, as also the children of Machir son of Manasseh, who were born on Joseph's lap.

23. And Joseph saw E'phraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manas'seh were born upon Joseph's knees.

24. At length Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die; but God will be sure to remember you kindly and take you out of this country to the country which he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'

24. And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

25. And Joseph put Israel's sons on oath, saying, 'When God remembers you with kindness, be sure to take my bones away from here.'

25. Then Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, "God will visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

26. Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten; he was embalmed and laid in a coffin in Egypt.

26. So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.