Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
José fue y abrazó a su padre, llorando sobre él y besándolo.
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.
Luego José instruyó a los médicos que trabajaban para él que embalsamaran el cuerpo de su padre. Así que los médicos embalsamaron a Israel.
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.
Esto tomó 40 días, el tiempo normal para el proceso, y los egipcios lloraron por él durante 70 días.
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:
Una vez terminado el tiempo de luto, José dijo a los oficiales del Faraón: “Si son tan amables, por favor hablen con el Faraón en mi nombre y explíquenle que
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.’”
mi padre me hizo hacer un juramento, diciéndome: ‘Debes enterrarme en la tumba que he preparado para mí en Canaán’. Por favor, permíteme ir a enterrar a mi padre y luego volveré”.
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.’”
El Faraón respondió: “Ve y entierra a tu padre como te hizo jurar”.
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.
José fue a enterrar a su padre, y todos los oficiales del Faraón fueron con él, todos los consejeros principales del Faraón y todos los líderes de Egipto,
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.
así como la familia de José, sus hermanos y la familia de su padre. Sólo dejaron a los niños pequeños y sus rebaños y manadas en Gosén.
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
Fueron acompañados por carros y jinetes, una procesión muy grande.
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.
Cuando llegaron a la era de Atad, al otro lado del Jordán, lloraron con gritos de dolor. José celebró una ceremonia de siete días de luto por su padre allí.
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].’
Los cananeos que vivían allí vieron la ceremonia de duelo en la era de Atad. Dijeron: “Este es un momento muy triste de luto para los egipcios”, así que rebautizaron el lugar como Abel-Mizraim, que está al otro lado del Jordán.
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
Los hijos de Jacob hicieron lo que él les había ordenado.
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.
Llevaron su cuerpo a Canaán y lo enterraron en la cueva de Macpela, en el campo cerca de Mamre, el cual Abraham le había comprado a Efrón el hitita como lugar de sepultura.
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.
Después de enterrar a su padre, José y sus hermanos regresaron a Egipto junto con todos los que habían ido con ellos.
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?”
Sin embargo, ahora que su padre había muerto, los hermanos de José se preocuparon diciendo: “Tal vez José nos guarde rencor y nos pague por todas las cosas malas que le hicimos”.
16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
Así que enviaron un mensaje a José para decirle: “Antes de que tu padre muriera, dio esta orden,
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.
‘Esto es lo que debes decirle a José: Perdona a tus hermanos sus pecados, las cosas malas que te hicieron, tratándote de una manera tan desagradable’. Ahora, por favor, perdona nuestros pecados, nosotros que somos siervos del Dios de tu padre”. Cuando José recibió el mensaje, lloró.
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.”
Entonces sus hermanos vinieron y se postraron ante José y le dijeron: “¡Somos tus esclavos!”
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]
“¡No necesitan tener miedo!” les dijo. “No me pongo en el lugar de Dios, ¿verdad?
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!
Aunque ustedes conspiraron cosas malas para mí, Dios planeó para el bien, a fin de que muchas vidas pudieran ser salvadas.
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.
Así que no se preocupen. Seguiré cuidando de ustedes y de sus hijos”. Hablando amablemente así los calmó.
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
Y José permaneció en Egipto, junto con toda la familia de su padre. Vivió hasta los 110 años,
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].
y vio tres generaciones de su hijo Efraín, y los hijos de Maquir, el hijo de Manasés, fueron puestos en su regazo cuando nacieron.
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.”
“Voy a morir pronto”, les dijo José a sus hermanos, “pero Dios estará con ustedes, y los llevará fuera de este país a la tierra que juró dar a Abraham, Isaac y 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.
José hizo jurar a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: “Cuando Dios venga a estar con ustedes, deben llevarse mis huesos cuando se vayan”.
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
José murió cuando tenía 110 años. Después de que su cuerpo fue embalsamado, fue colocado en un ataúd en Egipto.
