創世記 50
1 若瑟伏在他父親的臉上，痛哭親吻，
And Joseph fell upon the face of his father, and wept upon him and kissed him.
2 然後吩咐照料自己的醫生，用香料包殮他父親；醫生便用香料包殮了以色列。
Then Joseph commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father, —so the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 為他共費了四十天，因為用香料包殮屍體原需要這些天數。埃及人為他舉哀七十天。
And they fulfilled for him forty days, for so, are they wont to fulfil the days of the embalmed, —and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
4 舉哀期一過，若瑟就向法郎的朝廷說：「我如在你們眼中得寵，請你們代我轉告法郎說：
And, when the days of weeping for him were passed, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh saying, —If I pray you, I have found favour in your eyes, speak ye I pray you in the ears of Pharaoh saying:
5 我父親曾叫我起誓，對我說：看，我快要死了! 我在客納罕地，曾為自己鑿了一個墳墓，你應把我葬在那裏。現在請讓我上去埋葬我父親，然後回來。」
My father, made me swear saying, —Lo! I, am about to die, —in my grave which I digged for myself in the land of Canaan, there, shalt thou bury me. Now, therefore, let me go up, I pray thee and bury my father, and return.
6 法郎回覆說：「你就照你父親令你起的誓，上去埋葬他罷! 」
And Pharaoh said, —Go up., and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
7 於是若瑟上去埋葬他父親，與他一同去的，有法郎的一切臣僕，朝廷的顯要，和埃及國所有的紳士；
So Joseph went up. to bury his father, —and there went up with him all the servants of Pharaoh the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt;
8 還有若瑟全家和他的兄弟們，並他父親的家屬，只留下家中幼小，羊群和家畜在哥笙地。
and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father, —only their little ones and their flocks and their herds, left they. in the land of Goshen.
9 與他同去的，尚有車輛和騎兵：實在是一大隊行列。
And there went up with him, both chariots and horsemen, —so it came to pass that, the company, was exceeding great,
10 當他們到了約但河對岸的阿塔得打禾場，就在那裏舉行了極備哀榮的隆重喪禮；若瑟又為自己的父親舉哀了七天。
And they came in, as far as the threshing-floor of the Buckthorn, which is beyond the Jordan, then wailed they there—an exceeding great and grievous wailing, —and he made for his father a mourning, of seven days.
11 住在當地的客納罕人見了阿塔得打禾場上的喪禮，就說：「這為埃及人實是一場極備哀榮的喪禮。」因而給那在約但對岸的地方，起名叫阿貝耳米茲辣殷。
And when the dwellers in the land—the Canaanites—saw the mourning in the threshing-floor of the Buckthorn, they said, —A grievous mourning, this! for the Egyptians. For this cause, was the name thereof called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
12 雅各伯的兒子們完全照他們的父親所吩咐的給他辦了：
And his sons did for him thus as he had commanded them;
13 將他運到客納罕地，葬在面對瑪默勒的瑪革培拉田裏的山洞內；這塊田是亞巴郎由赫特人厄斐龍買了來作為私有墳地。
so his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, —which Abraham bought—with the field—for a possession of a buryingplace from Ephron the Hittite over against Mamre.
14 若瑟葬了父親以後，遂和他兄弟們，以及所有與他上來埋葬他父親的人們，返回了埃及。
Then Joseph returned to Egypt he and his brethren and all who had been up with him to bury his father, —after he had buried his father.
15 若瑟的兄弟們見父親已死，就說：「或者若瑟仍懷恨我們，要報復我們對他所行的一切惡事。」
Now when the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said—Oh! if Joseph should lie in wait for us, —and should return, to us, all the evil wherewith we requited him!
16 因此便派人去見若瑟說：「你父親未死以前曾囑咐說：
So they sent in charge unto Joseph saying, —Thy father, gave command before he died saying:
17 你們要這樣對若瑟說：請你務必饒恕你兄弟們的過失和罪惡，因為他們實在虐待了你。現在，求你饒恕你父親的天主的僕人們的過失罷! 」若瑟聽他們對他說出這樣的話，就哭了起來。
Thus, shall ye say to Joseph—Ah now! do forgive we pray thee the transgression of thy brethren and their sin in that with evil, they requited thee. Now, therefore grant forgiveness we pray thee, for the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father! And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
18 後來他的兄弟們還親自來，俯伏在他面前說：「看，我們都是你的奴隸! 」
Then went his brethren also, and fell down before him, —and said, Behold us! thine for servants.
19 若瑟對他們說：「不要害怕! 我豈能替代天主﹖
And Joseph said unto them—Do not fear, —although in place of God, I am.
20 你們原有意對我作的惡事，天主卻有意使之變成好事，造成了今日的結果：挽救了許多人民的性命。
Ye, indeed, planned against me, evil, —God, planned it, for good, for the sake of doing, as at this day, to save alive much people.
21 所以，你們不必害怕，有我維持你們和你們的孩子。」他這樣撫慰他們，使他們安心。
Now, therefore do not fear! I will nourish you and your little ones. Thus he consoled them, and spake unto their heart.
22 若瑟和他父親的家屬，以後就住在埃及。若瑟活到了一百一十歲，
And Joseph abode in Egypt, he, and his father’s house, —and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
23 見到了厄弗辣因的第三代子孫；默納協的兒子瑪基爾的兒子們，也都生在若瑟的膝下。
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s, sons of three generations—moreover the sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, were born upon Joseph’s knees.
24 若瑟對自己的兄弟們說：「我快要死了；但天主要看顧你們，領你們由這地回到他誓許給亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯的地方去。」
Then said Joseph unto his brethren, I, am about to die, —but God will surely concern, himself for you, so will he take you up out of this land, into the land which he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob.
25 若瑟又叫以色列的兒子們起誓說「當天主看顧你們時，你們應將我的骨骸由這裏帶回去。」
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear saying, —God will, surely concern, himself for you, So shall ye carry up my bones, from hence.
26 若瑟死了，享壽一百一十歲。人遂用香料包殮了他，放在棺墎內，安厝在埃及。
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, —and they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
