Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
Allora Giuseppe si gettò sulla faccia di suo padre, pianse su di lui e lo baciò.
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.
Poi Giuseppe ordinò ai suoi medici di imbalsamare suo padre. I medici imbalsamarono Israele
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.
e vi impiegarono quaranta giorni, perché tanti ne occorrono per l'imbalsamazione. Gli Egiziani lo piansero settanta giorni.
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:
Passati i giorni del lutto, Giuseppe parlò alla casa del faraone: «Se ho trovato grazia ai vostri occhi, vogliate riferire agli orecchi del faraone queste parole:
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.’”
Mio padre mi ha fatto giurare: Ecco, io sto per morire: tu devi seppellirmi nel sepolcro che mi sono scavato nel paese di Canaan. Ora, possa io andare a seppellire mio padre e tornare».
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.’”
Il faraone rispose: «Và e seppellisci tuo padre com'egli ti ha fatto giurare».
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.
Allora Giuseppe andò a seppellire suo padre e con lui andarono tutti i ministri del faraone, gli anziani della sua casa, tutti gli anziani del paese d'Egitto,
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.
tutta la casa di Giuseppe e i suoi fratelli e la casa di suo padre. Soltanto i loro bambini e i loro greggi e i loro armenti essi lasciarono nel paese di Gosen.
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
Andarono con lui anche i carri da guerra e la cavalleria, così da formare una carovana imponente.
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.
Quando arrivarono all'Aia di Atad, che è al di là del Giordano, fecero un lamento molto grande e solenne ed egli celebrò per suo padre un lutto di sette giorni.
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].’
I Cananei che abitavano il paese videro il lutto alla Aia di Atad e dissero: «E' un lutto grave questo per gli Egiziani». Per questo la si chiamò Abel-Mizraim, che si trova al di là del Giordano.
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
Poi i suoi figli fecero per lui così come aveva loro comandato.
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.
I suoi figli lo portarono nel paese di Canaan e lo seppellirono nella caverna del campo di Macpela, quel campo che Abramo aveva acquistato, come proprietà sepolcrale, da Efron l'Hittita, e che si trova di fronte a Mamre.
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.
Dopo aver sepolto suo padre, Giuseppe tornò in Egitto insieme con i suoi fratelli e con quanti erano andati con lui a seppellire suo padre.
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?”
Ma i fratelli di Giuseppe cominciarono ad aver paura, dato che il loro padre era morto, e dissero: «Chissà se Giuseppe non ci tratterà da nemici e non ci renderà tutto il male che noi gli abbiamo fatto?».
16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
Allora mandarono a dire a Giuseppe: «Tuo padre prima di morire ha dato quest'ordine:
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.
Direte a Giuseppe: Perdona il delitto dei tuoi fratelli e il loro peccato, perché ti hanno fatto del male! Perdona dunque il delitto dei servi del Dio di tuo padre!». Giuseppe pianse quando gli si parlò così.
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.”
E i suoi fratelli andarono e si gettarono a terra davanti a lui e dissero: «Eccoci tuoi schiavi!».
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]
Ma Giuseppe disse loro: «Non temete. Sono io forse al posto di Dio?
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!
Se voi avevate pensato del male contro di me, Dio ha pensato di farlo servire a un bene, per compiere quello che oggi si avvera: far vivere un popolo numeroso.
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.
Dunque non temete, io provvederò al sostentamento per voi e per i vostri bambini». Così li consolò e fece loro coraggio.
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
Ora Giuseppe con la famiglia di suo padre abitò in Egitto; Giuseppe visse centodieci anni.
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].
Così Giuseppe vide i figli di Efraim fino alla terza generazione e anche i figli di Machir, figlio di Manasse, nacquero sulle ginocchia di Giuseppe.
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.”
Poi Giuseppe disse ai fratelli: «Io sto per morire, ma Dio verrà certo a visitarvi e vi farà uscire da questo paese verso il paese ch'egli ha promesso con giuramento ad Abramo, a Isacco e a Giacobbe».
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.
Giuseppe fece giurare ai figli di Israele così: «Dio verrà certo a visitarvi e allora voi porterete via di qui le mie ossa».
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
Poi Giuseppe morì all'età di centodieci anni; lo imbalsamarono e fu posto in un sarcofago in Egitto.
