创世记 50
1 约瑟伏在他父亲的面上哀哭，与他亲嘴。
And Joseph fell upon the face of his father, and wept upon him and kissed him.
2 约瑟吩咐伺候他的医生用香料薰他父亲，医生就用香料薰了以色列。
Then Joseph commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father, —so the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 薰尸的常例是四十天；那四十天满了，埃及人为他哀哭了七十天。
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 为他哀哭的日子过了，约瑟对法老家中的人说：“我若在你们眼前蒙恩，请你们报告法老说：
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 ‘我父亲要死的时候叫我起誓说：你要将我葬在迦南地，在我为自己所掘的坟墓里。’现在求你让我上去葬我父亲，以后我必回来。”
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 法老说：“你可以上去，照着你父亲叫你起的誓，将他葬埋。”
And Pharaoh said, —Go up., and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
7 于是约瑟上去葬他父亲。与他一同上去的，有法老的臣仆和法老家中的长老，并埃及国的长老，
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 还有约瑟的全家和他的弟兄们，并他父亲的眷属；只有他们的妇人孩子，和羊群牛群，都留在歌珊地。
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 又有车辆马兵，和他一同上去；那一帮人甚多。
And there went up with him, both chariots and horsemen, —so it came to pass that, the company, was exceeding great,
10 他们到了约旦河外、亚达的禾场，就在那里大大地号咷痛哭。约瑟为他父亲哀哭了七天。
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 迦南的居民见亚达禾场上的哀哭，就说：“这是埃及人一场极大的哀哭。”因此那地方名叫亚伯·麦西，是在约旦河东。
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 雅各的儿子们就遵着他父亲所吩咐的办了，
And his sons did for him thus as he had commanded them;
13 把他搬到迦南地，葬在幔利前、麦比拉田间的洞里；那洞和田是亚伯拉罕向赫人以弗 买来为业，作坟地的。
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 约瑟葬了他父亲以后，就和众弟兄，并一切同他上去葬他父亲的人，都回埃及去了。
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 约瑟的哥哥们见父亲死了，就说：“或者约瑟怀恨我们，照着我们从前待他一切的恶足足地报复我们。”
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 他们就打发人去见约瑟，说：“你父亲未死以先吩咐说：
So they sent in charge unto Joseph saying, —Thy father, gave command before he died saying:
17 ‘你们要对约瑟这样说：从前你哥哥们恶待你，求你饶恕他们的过犯和罪恶。’如今求你饶恕你父亲 神之仆人的过犯。”他们对约瑟说这话，约瑟就哭了。
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 他的哥哥们又来俯伏在他面前，说：“我们是你的仆人。”
Then went his brethren also, and fell down before him, —and said, Behold us! thine for servants.
19 约瑟对他们说：“不要害怕，我岂能代替 神呢？
And Joseph said unto them—Do not fear, —although in place of God, I am.
20 从前你们的意思是要害我，但 神的意思原是好的，要保全许多人的性命，成就今日的光景。
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 现在你们不要害怕，我必养活你们和你们的妇人孩子。”于是约瑟用亲爱的话安慰他们。
Now, therefore do not fear! I will nourish you and your little ones. Thus he consoled them, and spake unto their heart.
22 约瑟和他父亲的眷属都住在埃及。约瑟活了一百一十岁。
And Joseph abode in Egypt, he, and his father’s house, —and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
23 约瑟得见以法莲第三代的子孙。玛拿西的孙子、玛吉的儿子也养在约瑟的膝上。
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s, sons of three generations—moreover the sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, were born upon Joseph’s knees.
24 约瑟对他弟兄们说：“我要死了，但 神必定看顾你们，领你们从这地上去，到他起誓所应许给亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各之地。”
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 约瑟叫以色列的子孙起誓说：“神必定看顾你们；你们要把我的骸骨从这里搬上去。”
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 约瑟死了，正一百一十岁。人用香料将他薰了，把他收殓在棺材里，停在埃及。
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, —and they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
