Liber Genesis, 50

1. Ioseph ruit super faciem patris flens et deosculans eum.

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

2. Praecepitque servis suis medicis, ut aromatibus condirent patrem.

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

3. Quibus iussa explentibus, transierunt quadraginta dies; iste quippe mos erat cadaverum conditorum. Flevitque eum Aegyptus septuaginta diebus.

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

4. Et, expleto planctus tempore, locutus est Ioseph ad familiam pharaonis: “Si inveni gratiam in conspectu vestro, loquimini in auribus pharaonis,

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. eo quod pater meus adiuraverit me dicens: "En morior; in sepulcro meo, quod fodi mihi in terra Chanaan, sepelies me"; ascendam nunc et sepeliam patrem meum ac revertar”.

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. Dixitque ei pharao: “Ascende et sepeli patrem tuum, sicut adiuratus es”.

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

7. Quo ascendente, ierunt cum eo omnes servi pharaonis, senes domus eius cunctique maiores natu terrae Aegypti,

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. domus Ioseph cum fratribus suis, absque parvulis et gregibus atque armentis, quae dereliquerant in terra Gessen.

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. Habuit quoque in comitatu currus et equites; et facta est turba non modica.

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

10. Veneruntque ad Gorenatad (id est Aream rhamni), quae sita est trans Iordanem; ubi celebrantes exsequias planctu magno atque vehementi impleverunt septem dies.

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. Quod cum vidissent habitatores terrae Chanaan, dixerunt: “Planctus magnus est iste Aegyptiis”; et idcirco vocatum est nomen loci illius Abelmesraim (id est Planctus Aegypti).

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. Fecerunt ergo filii Iacob, sicut praeceperat eis;

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

13. et portantes eum in terram Chanaan sepelierunt eum in spelunca Machpela, quam emerat Abraham cum agro in possessionem sepulcri ab Ephron Hetthaeo contra faciem Mambre.

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. Reversusque est Ioseph in Aegyptum cum fratribus suis et omni comitatu, sepulto patre.

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. Quo mortuo, timentes fratres eius et mutuo colloquentes: “Ne forte memor sit iniuriae, quam passus est, et reddat nobis omne malum, quod fecimus”,

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. mandaverunt ei dicentes: “Pater tuus praecepit nobis, antequam moreretur,

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

17. ut haec tibi verbis illius diceremus: "Obsecro, ut obliviscaris sceleris fratrum tuorum et peccati atque malitiae, quam exercuerunt in te". Nos quoque oramus, ut servis Dei patris tui dimittas iniquitatem hanc”. Quibus auditis, flevit Ioseph.

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. Veneruntque ad eum fratres sui et proni coram eo dixerunt: “Servi tui sumus”.

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

19. Quibus ille respondit: “Nolite timere. Num Dei possumus resistere voluntati?

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

20. Vos cogitastis de me malum; sed Deus vertit illud in bonum, ut exaltaret me, sicut in praesentiarum cernitis, et salvos faceret multos populos.

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. Nolite timere: ego pascam vos et parvulos vestros”. Consolatusque est eos et blande ac leniter est locutus.

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

22. Et habitavit in Aegypto cum omni domo patris sui; vixitque centum decem annis

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

23. et vidit Ephraim filios usque ad tertiam generationem; filii quoque Machir filii Manasse nati sunt in genibus Ioseph.

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. Quibus transactis, locutus est fratribus suis: “Post mortem meam Deus visitabit vos et ascendere vos faciet de terra ista ad terram, quam iuravit Abraham, Isaac et Iacob”.

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. Cumque adiurasset eos atque dixisset: “Deus visitabit vos; asportate ossa mea vobiscum de loco isto”,

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. mortuus est, expletis centum decem vitae suae annis. Et conditus aromatibus repositus est in loculo in Aegypto.

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