創世記 50
1 約瑟伏在他父親的面上哀哭，與他親嘴。
Joseph went and hugged his father, weeping over him and kissing him.
2 約瑟吩咐伺候他的醫生用香料薰他父親，醫生就用香料薰了以色列。
Then Joseph instructed the physicians who worked for him to embalm his father's body. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 薰屍的常例是四十天；那四十天滿了，埃及人為他哀哭了七十天。
This took a full 40 days, the normal time for the process, and the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days.
4 為他哀哭的日子過了，約瑟對法老家中的人說：「我若在你們眼前蒙恩，請你們報告法老說：
Once the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's officials, “If you'd be so kind, please speak to Pharaoh on my behalf, and explain to him that
5 『我父親要死的時候叫我起誓說：你要將我葬在迦南地，在我為自己所掘的墳墓裏。』現在求你讓我上去葬我父親，以後我必回來。」
my father made me swear an oath, telling me, ‘You must bury me in the tomb I've prepared for myself in Canaan. Please allow me to go and bury my father and then I'll return.’”
6 法老說：「你可以上去，照着你父親叫你起的誓，將他葬埋。」
Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father as he made you swear to do.”
7 於是約瑟上去葬他父親。與他一同上去的，有法老的臣僕和法老家中的長老，並埃及國的長老，
Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials went with him—all Pharaoh's senior advisors and all the leaders of Egypt—
8 還有約瑟的全家和他的弟兄們，並他父親的眷屬；只有他們的婦人孩子，和羊群牛群，都留在歌珊地。
as well as Joseph's family, his brothers, and his father's family. They only left the small children and their flocks and herds back in Goshen.
9 又有車輛馬兵，和他一同上去；那一幫人甚多。
They were accompanied by chariots and horsemen—a really large procession.
10 他們到了約旦河外、亞達的禾場，就在那裏大大地號咷痛哭。約瑟為他父親哀哭了七天。
When they got to the threshing floor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they wept loudly in sorrow. Joseph held a seven-day ceremony of mourning for his father there.
11 迦南的居民見亞達禾場上的哀哭，就說：「這是埃及人一場極大的哀哭。」因此那地方名叫亞伯‧麥西，是在約旦河東。
The Canaanites who lived there watched the ceremony of mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. They said, “This is a very sad time of mourning for the Egyptians,” so they renamed the place Abel-mizraim, which is on the other side of the Jordan.
12 雅各的兒子們就遵着他父親所吩咐的辦了，
Jacob's sons did what he had instructed them to do.
13 把他搬到迦南地，葬在幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞裏；那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業，作墳地的。
They carried his body to Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
14 約瑟葬了他父親以後，就和眾弟兄，並一切同他上去葬他父親的人，都回埃及去了。
After they had buried their father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt along with all those who had gone with them.
15 約瑟的哥哥們見父親死了，就說：「或者約瑟懷恨我們，照着我們從前待他一切的惡足足地報復我們。」
However, now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became worried, saying, “Maybe Joseph is holding a grudge against us, and he'll pay us back for all the bad things we did to him.”
16 他們就打發人去見約瑟，說：「你父親未死以先吩咐說：
So they sent a message to Joseph to tell him, “Before your father died, he gave this order,
17 『你們要對約瑟這樣說：從前你哥哥們惡待你，求你饒恕他們的過犯和罪惡。』如今求你饒恕你父親上帝之僕人的過犯。」他們對約瑟說這話，約瑟就哭了。
‘This is what you are to tell Joseph: Forgive your brothers their sins, the bad things they did to you, treating you in such a nasty way.’ Now please forgive us our sins, we who are servants of the God of your father.” When Joseph received their message, he cried.
18 他的哥哥們又來俯伏在他面前，說：「我們是你的僕人。」
Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”
19 約瑟對他們說：「不要害怕，我豈能代替上帝呢？
“You don't need to be afraid!” he told them. “I don't stand in the place of God, do I?
20 從前你們的意思是要害我，但上帝的意思原是好的，要保全許多人的性命，成就今日的光景。
While you planned bad things for me, God planned it for good so that in the end many lives could be saved.
21 現在你們不要害怕，我必養活你們和你們的婦人孩子。」於是約瑟用親愛的話安慰他們。
So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calmed them down.
22 約瑟和他父親的眷屬都住在埃及。約瑟活了一百一十歲。
Joseph remained in Egypt, together with his father's whole family. He lived to be 110,
23 約瑟得見以法蓮第三代的子孫。瑪拿西的孫子、瑪吉的兒子也養在約瑟的膝上。
and saw three generations of his son Ephraim, and the sons of Makir, Manasseh's son, were placed in his lap when they were born.
24 約瑟對他弟兄們說：「我要死了，但上帝必定看顧你們，領你們從這地上去，到他起誓所應許給亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各之地。」
“I'm going to die soon,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will be with you, and he will lead you out of this country to the land that he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
25 約瑟叫以色列的子孫起誓說：「上帝必定看顧你們；你們要把我的骸骨從這裏搬上去。」
Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, “When God comes to be with you, you must take my bones with you when you leave.”
26 約瑟死了，正一百一十歲。人用香料將他薰了，把他收殮在棺材裏，停在埃及。
Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
