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١ 1 فَأَلْقَى يُوسُفُ بِنَفْسِهِ عَلَى جُثْمَانِ أَبِيهِ، وَبَكَى وَقَبَّلَهُ.

Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.

٢ 2 ثُمَّ أَمَرَ يُوسُفُ عَبِيدَهُ الأَطِبَّاءَ أَنْ يُحَنِّطُوا أَبَاهُ.

Joseph commanded his servants who were morticians to (embalm his father’s body/put spices on his father’s body) to (preserve it/keep it from decaying), and then wrap it with strips of cloth.

٣ 3 وَقَدِ اسْتَغْرَقَ ذَلِكَ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً، وَهِيَ الأَيَّامُ الْمَطْلُوبَةُ لاسْتِكْمَالِ التَّحْنِيطِ. وَبَكَى الْمِصْرِيُّونَ عَلَيْهِ سَبْعِينَ يَوْماً.

So the morticians did that. It took 40 days to embalm Jacob’s body, because that is the amount of time that was always required for them to embalm a body. And the people of Egypt mourned for 70 days because of Jacob’s death.

٤ 4 وَبَعْدَمَا انْقَضَتْ أَيَّامُ النُّوَاحِ عَلَيْهِ، قَالَ يُوسُفُ لأَهْلِ بَيْتِ فِرْعَوْنَ: «إِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ حَظِيتُ بِرِضَاكُمْ، فَتَكَلَّمُوا فِي مَسَامِعِ فِرْعَوْنَ قَائِلِينَ:

When the time of mourning was finished, Joseph said to the king’s officials, “If you are pleased with me, please take this message to the king:

٥ 5 لَقَدِ اسْتَحْلَفَنِي أَبِي وَقَالَ: أَنَا مُشْرِفٌ عَلَى الْمَوْتِ، فَادْفِنِّي فِي الْقَبْرِ الَّذِي حَفَرْتُهُ لِنَفْسِي فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، فَاسْمَحْ لِيَ الآنَ بِأَنْ أَمْضِيَ لأَدْفِنَ أَبِي ثُمَّ أَعُودَ».

‘When my father was about to die, he told me to solemnly promise that I would bury his body in Canaan, in the tomb that he himself had prepared. So please let me go up to Canaan and bury my father’s body. Then I will return.’”

٦ 6 فَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ: «امْضِ وَادْفِنْ أَبَاكَ كَمَا اسْتَحْلَفَكَ».

After they gave the king the message, he replied, “Tell Joseph, ‘Go up and bury your father’s body, as you (swore/solemnly promised) that you would do.’”

٧ 7 فَانْطَلَقَ يُوسُفُ لِيَدْفِنَ أَبَاهُ، وَرَافَقَتْهُ حَاشِيَةُ فِرْعَوْنَ مِنْ أَعْيَانِ بَيْتِهِ وَوُجَهَاءِ مِصْرَ،

So Joseph went [up to Canaan] to bury his father’s body. All of the king’s officials, all the king’s advisors, and all the elders in Egypt went with him.

٨ 8 وَكَذَلِكَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِهِ وَإخْوَتُهُ وَأَهْلُ بَيْتِ أَبِيهِ. وَلَمْ يُخَلِّفُوا وَرَاءَهُمْ فِي أَرْضِ جَاسَانَ سِوَى صِغَارِهِمْ وَغَنَمِهِمْ وَقُطْعَانِهِمْ.

His own family’s small children and their sheep and goats and their cattle stayed in the Goshen region. But all the rest of Joseph’s family and his [older] brothers [and younger brother] and his father’s family went with him.

٩ 9 وَصَاحَبَتْهُ أَيْضاً مَرْكَبَاتٌ وَفُرْسَانٌ، فَكَانُوا مَوْكِباً عَظِيماً.

Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.

١٠ 10 وَلَمَّا وَصَلُوا إِلَى بَيْدَرِ أَطَادَ فِي عَبْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ أَقَامَ يُوسُفُ لأَبِيهِ مَنَاحَةً عَظِيمَةً مَرِيرَةً نَاحُوا فِيهَا عَلَيْهِ طَوَالَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ

They went to the east side of the Jordan [River] and arrived at Atad. There was a place there where people (threshed/beat the grain to separate the wheat from the chaff.) There they mourned loudly for Jacob for a long time. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for his father for seven days.

١١ 11 وَعِنْدَمَا شَاهَدَ الْكَنْعَانِيُّونَ السَّاكِنُونَ هُنَاكَ الْمَنَاحَةَ فِي بَيْدَرِ أَطَادَ قَالُوا: «هَذِهِ مَنَاحَةٌ هَائِلَةٌ لِلْمَصْرِيِّينَ». وَسَمُّوا الْمَكَانَ الَّذِي فِي عَبْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ «آبِلَ مِصْرَايِمَ» (وَمَعْنَاهُ: مَنَاحَةُ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ).

When the Canaan people-group who lived there saw them mourning like that, they said, “This is a sad mourning place for the people of Egypt!” So they named the place Abel-Mizraim, [which sounds like the Hebrew words that mean ‘mourning of the Egyptians].’

١٢ 12 وَنَفَّذَ أَبْنَاءُ يَعْقُوبَ وَصِيَّةَ أَبِيهِمْ،

Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.

١٣ 13 فَنَقَلُوهُ إِلَى أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ وَدَفَنُوهُ فِي مَغَارَةِ حَقْلِ الْمَكْفِيلَةِ مُقَابِلَ مَمْرَا الَّتِي اشْتَرَاهَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ مَعَ الْحَقْلِ مِنْ عِفْرُونَ الْحِثِّيِّ لِتَكُونَ مَدْفَناً خَاصّاً.

They [crossed the Jordan River and] carried Jacob’s body to Canaan. They buried it in the cave in the field at Machpelah, east of Mamre [town]. That was the field that Abraham had bought from Ephron, who was one of the Heth people-group, to use as a burial place.

١٤ 14 وَبَعْدَ أَنْ دَفَنَ يُوسُفُ أَبَاهُ، رَجَعَ هُوَ وَإخْوَتُهُ وَسَائِرُ الَّذِينَ رَافَقُوهُ إِلَى مِصْرَ.

After he had buried his father, Joseph and his [older] brothers [and younger brother] and all the others who had gone up to Canaan with him for the funeral returned to Egypt.

١٥ 15 وَلَمَا رَأى إِخْوَةُ يُوسُفُ أَنَّ أَبَاهُمْ قَدْ مَاتَ قَالُوا: «لَعَلَّ يُوسُفَ الآنَ يَشْرَعُ فِي اضْطِهَادِنَا وَيَنْتَقِمُ مِنَّا لإِسَاءَتِنَا إِلَيْهِ؟»

After Jacob died, Joseph’s brothers became worried. They realized what might happen. They said, “Suppose Joseph hates us and tries to get revenge for all the evil things that we did to him many years ago?”

١٦ 16 فَبَعَثُوا إِلَيْهِ رَسُولاً قَائِلِينَ: «لَقَدْ أَوْصَى أَبُوكَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ وَقَالَ:

So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:

١٧ 17 هَكَذَا تَقُولُونَ لِيُوسُفَ: اغْفِرْ لإِخْوَتِكَ ذَنْبَهُمْ وَخَطِيئَتَهُمْ، فَإِنَّهُمْ قَدْ أَسَاءُوا إِلَيْكَ. فَالآنَ اصْفَحْ عَنْ إِثْمِ عَبِيدِ إِلَهِ أَبِيكَ». فَلَمَّا بَلَغَتْهُ رِسَالَتُهُمْ بَكَى يُوسُفُ.

‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive your [older] brothers for the evil thing that they did to you, for their terrible sin against you, because what they did to you was very wrong.”’ So now we, who are servants of your father’s God, ask you, please forgive us for what we did to you.” But Joseph just cried when he received their message.

١٨ 18 وَجَاءَ إِخْوَتُهُ أَيْضاً وَانْطَرَحُوا أَمَامَهُ وَقَالُوا: «هَا نَحْنُ عَبِيدُكَ».

Then his [older] brothers themselves came and threw themselves on the ground in front of Joseph, and one of them said, “Please listen. We will just be your servants.”

١٩ 19 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «لا تَخَافُوا: هَلْ أَنَا أَقُومُ مَقَامَ اللهِ؟

But Joseph replied to them, “Do not be afraid! [God is the one who punishes people]; (am I God?/I am not God!) [RHQ]

٢٠ 20 أَنْتُمْ نَوَيْتُمْ لِي شَرّاً، وَلَكِنَّ اللهَ قَصَدَ بِالشَّرِّ خَيْراً، لِيُنْجِزَ مَا تَمَّ الْيَوْمَ، لإِحْيَاءِ شَعْبٍ كَثِيرٍ.

As for you, yes, you wanted to do something very evil to me. But God caused something good to come from it! He wanted to save many people from dying of hunger, and that is what happened! Today they are alive!

٢١ 21 لِذَلِكَ لَا تَخَافُوا، فَأَنَا أَعُولُكُمْ أَنْتُمْ وَأَوْلادَكُمْ». فَطَمْأَنَهُمْ وَهَدَّأَ رَوْعَهُمْ.

So I say [again], do not be afraid! I will make sure that you and your children have enough to eat.” In that way he reassured them and made made them feel much better.

٢٢ 22 وَأَقَامَ يُوسُفُ فِي مِصْرَ هُوَ وَأَهْلُ بَيْتِ أَبِيهِ. وَعَاشَ يُوسُفُ مِئَةً وَعَشْرَ سِنِينَ،

Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.

٢٣ 23 حَتَّى شَهِدَ الجِيلَ الثَّالِثَ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّةِ أَفْرَايِمَ، وَكَذَلِكَ أَوْلادَ مَاكِيرَ بْنِ مَنَسَّى الَّذِينَ احْتَضَنَهُمْ عِنْدَ وِلادَتِهِمْ.

He lived long enough to see Ephraim’s children and grandchildren. The children of Joseph’s grandson Machir, who was Manasseh’s son, were born before Joseph died, and were adopted by Joseph to be his own children [IDM].

٢٤ 24 ثُمَّ قَالَ يُوسُفُ لإِخْوَتِهِ: «أَنَا مُوْشِكٌ عَلَى الْمَوْتِ، وَلَكِنَّ اللهَ سَيَفْتَقِدُكُمْ وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ مِنْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ وَيَرُدُّكُمْ إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَعَدَ بِها بِقَسَمٍ لإِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ».

One day Joseph said to his [older] brothers, “I am about to die. But God will certainly (help/take care of) you. And [some day] he will lead your [descendants] up out of this land and take them to Canaan, the land that he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

٢٥ 25 وَاسْتَحْلَفَ يُوسُفُ أَبْنَاءَ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَائِلاً: «إِنَّ اللهَ سَيَفْتَقِدُكُمْ فَانْقُلُوا عِظَامِي مِنْ هُنَا».

Then Joseph said, “When God enables you to do that, you must take my body back to Canaan.” He made his older brothers solemnly promise to do that.

٢٦ 26 ثُمَّ مَاتَ يُوسُفُ وَقَدْ بَلَغَ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ مِئَةً وَعَشْرَ سِنِينَ. فَحَنَّطُوهُ وَوَضَعُوهُ فِي تَابُوتٍ فِي مِصْرَ.

So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.