Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
| آنگاه یوسف خود را روی جسد پدرش انداخته، گریست و او را بوسید. |
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.
| سپس دستور داد تا جسد وی را مومیایی کنند. |
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.
| کار مومیایی کردن مرده چهل روز طول می‌کشید. پس از مومیایی کردن جسد یعقوب، مردمِ مصر مدت هفتاد روز برای او عزاداری کردند. |
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:
| بعد از اتمام ایام عزاداری، یوسف نزد درباریان فرعون رفته، از ایشان خواست که از طرف وی به فرعون بگویند: |
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.’”
| «پدرم مرا قسم داده است که پس از مرگش جسد وی را به کنعان برده، در قبری که برای خود آماده کرده است دفن کنم. درخواست می‌کنم به من اجازه دهید بروم و پدرم را دفن کنم. پس از دفن پدرم مراجعت خواهم کرد.» |
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.’”
| فرعون موافقت کرد و به یوسف گفت: «برو و همان‌طوری که قول داده‌ای پدرت را دفن کن.» |
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.
| پس یوسف روانه شد تا پدرش را دفن کند. تمام مشاوران فرعون، بزرگان خاندان فرعون، و همۀ بزرگان سرزمین مصر همراه وی رفتند. |
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.
| یوسف همچنین همۀ اهل خانۀ خود و برادرانش و اهل خانۀ پدرش را نیز با خود برد. اما بچه‌ها و گله‌ها و رمه‌هایشان در جوشن ماندند. |
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
| ارابه‌ها و سواران نیز آنها را همراهی می‌کردند. به این ترتیب گروه عظیمی راهی کنعان شد. |
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.
| وقتی که به خرمنگاه اطاد در آن طرف رود اردن رسیدند، با صدای بلند گریستند و به نوحه‌گری پرداختند و یوسف برای پدرش هفت روز ماتم گرفت. |
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].’
| کنعانی‌های ساکن اطاد چون این سوگواری را دیدند آن محل را آبِل مِصرایِم نامیدند و گفتند: «اینجا مکانی است که مصری‌ها ماتمی عظیم گرفتند.» |
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
| بدین ترتیب، پسران یعقوب همان‌طور که او به ایشان وصیت کرده بود، عمل کردند: |
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.
| بدن او را به سرزمین کنعان برده، در غاری دفن کردند که در زمین مکفیله در نزدیکی ممری بود و ابراهیم آن را با مزرعه‌اش از عفرون حیتّی خریده بود تا مقبرۀ خانوادگی‌اش باشد. |
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.
| یوسف پس از دفن پدرش، با برادران و همهٔ کسانی که همراه او رفته بودند به مصر بازگشت. |
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?”
| وقتی برادران یوسف دیدند که پدرشان مرده است، به یکدیگر گفتند: «حالا یوسف انتقام همهٔ بدیهایی را که به او روا داشتیم از ما خواهد گرفت.» |
16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
| پس این پیغام را برای یوسف فرستادند: «پدرت قبل از این که بمیرد چنین وصیت کرد: |
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.
| ”به یوسف بگویید: از تو تمنا دارم از سر تقصیر برادرانت بگذری و گناهشان را ببخشی، زیرا که به تو بدی کرده‌اند.“حال ما، بندگان خدای پدرت، التماس می‌کنیم که ما را ببخشی.» وقتی که یوسف این پیغام را شنید گریست. |
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.”
| آنگاه برادرانش آمده، به پای او افتادند و گفتند: «ما غلامان تو هستیم.» |
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]
| اما یوسف به ایشان گفت: «از من نترسید. مگر من خدا هستم؟ |
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!
| هر چند شما به من بدی کردید، اما خدا عمل بد شما را برای من به نیکی مبدل نمود و چنانکه می‌بینید مرا به این مقام رسانیده است تا افراد بی‌شماری را از مرگِ ناشی از گرسنگی نجات دهم. |
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.
| پس نترسید. من از شما و خانواده‌های شما مواظبت خواهم کرد.» او با آنها به مهربانی سخن گفت و خیال آنها آسوده شد. |
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
| یوسف و برادرانش و خانواده‌های آنها مثل سابق به زندگی خود در مصر ادامه دادند. یوسف صد و ده سال زندگی کرد. |
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].
| او توانست سومین نسل فرزندانِ افرایم را ببیند، و نیز شاهد تولد فرزندان ماخیر، پسر منسی که فرزندان یوسف محسوب می‌شدند، باشد. |
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.”
| یوسف به برادران خود گفت: «من به‌زودی می‌میرم، ولی بدون شک خدا شما را از مصر به کنعان، سرزمینی که وعدهٔ آن را به نسل ابراهیم و اسحاق و یعقوب داده است، خواهد برد.» |
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.
| سپس یوسف برادرانش را قسم داده، گفت: «هنگامی که خدا شما را به کنعان می‌برد، استخوانهای مرا نیز با خود ببرید.» |
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
| یوسف در سن صد و ده سالگی در مصر درگذشت و جسد او را مومیایی کرده در تابوتی قرار دادند. |
