Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
Joseph se jeta sur le visage de son père, pleura sur lui et le baisa.
2 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.
Puis il ordonna aux médecins à son service d’embaumer son père, et les médecins embaumèrent Israël.
3 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.
Ils y employèrent quarante jours, car c’est le temps que l’on emploie à embaumer; et les Egyptiens le pleurèrent soixante-dix jours.
4 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:
Quand les jours de son deuil furent passés, Joseph s’adressa aux gens de la maison de Pharaon, et leur dit: « Si j’ai trouvé grâce à vos yeux, rapportez ceci, je vous prie, aux oreilles de Pharaon:
5 ‘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.’”
Mon père m’a fait jurer, en disant: Voici que je vais mourir; tu m’enterreras dans le sépulcre que je me suis creusé au pays de Canaan. Je voudrais donc y monter pour enterrer mon père; et je reviendrai. »
6 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.’”
Pharaon répondit: « Monte et enterre ton père, comme il te l’a fait jurer. »
7 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.
Joseph monta pour enterrer son père. Avec lui montèrent tous les serviteurs de Pharaon, les anciens de sa maison, et tous les anciens du pays d’Égypte,
8 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.
toute la maison de Joseph, ses frères et la maison de son père: ils ne laissèrent dans le pays de Gessen que leurs petits enfants, leurs brebis et leurs bœufs.
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
Il montait encore avec Joseph des chars et des cavaliers, en sorte que le cortège était très nombreux.
10 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.
Arrivés à l’aire d’Atad, qui est au delà du Jourdain, ils firent entendre de grandes et profondes lamentations, et Joseph célébra en l’honneur de son père un deuil de sept jours.
11 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].’
Les habitants du pays, les Chananéens, ayant vu ce deuil dans l’aire d’Atad, dirent: « Voilà un grand deuil parmi les Egyptiens! » C’est pourquoi l’on a donné le nom d’Abel-Mitsraïm à ce lieu, qui est au delà du Jourdain.
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
Les fils de Jacob firent donc envers lui comme il leur avait commandé.
13 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.
Ses fils le transportèrent au pays de Canaan et l’enterrèrent dans la caverne du champ de Macpéla, qu’Abraham avait acquise d’Ephron le Hittite, avec le champ, pour avoir un sépulcre qui lui appartint, vis-à-vis de Mambré.
14 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.
Après avoir enterré son père, Joseph retourna en Égypte avec ses frères et tous ceux qui étaient montés avec lui pour enterrer son père.
15 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?”
Quand les frères de Joseph virent que leur père était mort, ils dirent: « Si Joseph nous prenait en haine, et nous rendait tout le mal que nous lui avons fait! »
16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
Et ils firent dire à Joseph: « Ton père a donné cet ordre avant de mourir:
17 ‘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.
Vous parlerez ainsi à Joseph: Oh! pardonne le crime de tes frères et leur péché, car ils t’ont fait du mal! Maintenant donc, je te prie, pardonne le crime des serviteurs du Dieu de ton père. » Joseph pleura, en entendant ces paroles.
18 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.”
Ses frères vinrent eux-mêmes se prosterner devant lui, en disant: « Nous sommes tes serviteurs. »
19 But Joseph replied to them, “Do not be afraid! [God is the one who punishes people]; (am I God?/I am not God!) [RHQ]
Joseph leur dit: « Soyez sans crainte; car suis-je à la place de Dieu?
20 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!
Vous aviez dans la pensée de me faire du mal; mais Dieu avait dans la sienne d’en faire sortir du bien, afin d’accomplir ce qui arrive aujourd’hui, afin de conserver la vie à un peuple nombreux.
21 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.
Soyez donc sans crainte; je vous entretiendrai, vous et vos enfants. » C’est ainsi qu’il les consola, en parlant à leurs cœurs.
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
Joseph demeura en Égypte, lui et la maison de son père. Il vécut cent dix ans.
23 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].
Joseph vit les fils d’Ephraïm jusqu’à la troisième génération; des fils de Machir, fils de Manassé, naquirent aussi sur les genoux de Joseph.
24 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.”
Joseph dit à ses frères: « Pour moi, je vais mourir; mais Dieu vous visitera certainement et vous fera remonter de ce pays dans le pays qu’il a juré de donner à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob. »
25 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.
Joseph fit jurer les fils d’Israël, en disant: « Certainement Dieu vous visitera, et vous ferez remonter mes os d’ici. »
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
Joseph mourut, âgé de cent dix ans. On l’embauma et on le mit dans un cercueil en Égypte.
