Genesis 50
1 Then Joseph hugged his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.
約瑟伏在他父親的面上哀哭，與他親嘴。
2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
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。
3 Forty days were required for it, for that is how many the days it takes for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him for seventy days.
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。
4 When the days for mourning for him had passed, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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：
5 'My father made me take an oath, saying, "Look, I am dying. Bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will return again.'"
『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。」
6 And Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, in keeping with your oath."
法老說：「你可以上去，照着你父親叫你起的誓，將他葬埋。」
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father, and all the officials of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
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，
8 all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
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。
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very large company.
又有車輛馬兵，和他一同上去；那一幫人甚多。
10 Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad which is across the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very bitter lamentation. And he observed seven days of mourning for his father.
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。
11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a deep mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is across the Jordan.
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。
12 So his sons did to him just as he commanded them,
雅各的兒子們就遵着他父親所吩咐的辦了，
13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hethite.
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。
14 Then after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all that went up with him to bury his father.
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。
15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will pay us back in full for all of the evil that we did to him."
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。」
16 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died, saying,
他們就打發人去見約瑟，說：「你父親未死以先吩咐說：
17 Thus you are to tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you."' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
『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。
18 Then his brothers also went and fell down in front of him, and they said, "Look, we are your slaves."
他的哥哥們又來俯伏在他面前，說：「我們是你的僕人。」
19 But Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
約瑟對他們說：「不要害怕，我豈能代替上帝呢？
20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God turned it into good in order to bring about this present result, to save the lives of many people.
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。
21 So therefore, do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." And he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.
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。
22 So Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's household. And Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
約瑟和他父親的眷屬都住在埃及。約瑟活了一百一十歲。
23 Joseph saw Ephraim's descendants to the third generation. The children also of Makir, the son of Manasseh, were counted as Joseph's own.
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。
24 And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up out of this land to the land which he promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
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。」
25 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath, saying, "God will surely take care of you. Then you must carry up my bones from here."
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。」
26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.
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。
