Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
José se postró sobre el rostro de su padre, lloró sobre él y lo besó.
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.
José ordenó a sus servidores, los médicos, que embalsamaran a su padre; y 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.
Le dedicaron cuarenta días, pues son los que se necesitan para embalsamar. Los egipcios lloraron a Israel durante setenta 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:
Cuando pasaron los días de llanto por él, José habló al bastón del faraón, diciendo: “Si ahora he encontrado gracia ante tus ojos, por favor, habla en los oídos del faraón, diciendo:
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 jurar, diciendo: “He aquí que me estoy muriendo. Entiérrame en mi tumba que me he cavado en la tierra de Canaán”. Ahora, pues, te ruego que me dejes subir a enterrar a mi padre, y 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 dijo: “Sube 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 subió a enterrar a su padre, y con él subieron todos los servidores del faraón, los ancianos de su casa, todos los ancianos del país 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.
toda la casa de José, sus hermanos y la casa de su padre. Sólo dejaron en la tierra de Gosén a sus pequeños, sus rebaños y sus manadas.
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
Tanto los carros como los jinetes subieron con él. Era una compañía 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.
Llegaron a la era de Atad, que está al otro lado del Jordán, y allí se lamentaron con un lamento muy grande y severo. Hicieron duelo por su padre durante siete días.
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].’
Cuando los habitantes de la tierra, los cananeos, vieron el luto en la era de Atad, dijeron: “Este es un luto grave de los egipcios”. Por eso su nombre fue llamado Abel Mizraim, que está al otro lado del Jordán.
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
Sus hijos le hicieron tal como 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.
pues sus hijos lo llevaron a la tierra de Canaán y lo enterraron en la cueva del campo de Macpela, que Abraham compró con el campo, como posesión para un lugar de entierro, a Efrón el hitita, cerca de 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.
José regresó a Egipto, junto con sus hermanos y todos los que subieron con él para enterrar a su padre, después de haber enterrado a su 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?”
Cuando los hermanos de José vieron que su padre había muerto, dijeron: “Puede ser que José nos odie y nos pague plenamente todo el mal que le hicimos.”
16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
Enviaron un mensaje a José, diciendo: “Tu padre ordenó antes de morir, diciendo:
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.
“Ahora dirás a José: “Por favor, perdona la desobediencia de tus hermanos y su pecado, porque te hicieron mal”. Ahora, por favor, perdona la desobediencia de los siervos del Dios de tu padre”. José lloró cuando le hablaron.
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.”
Sus hermanos también fueron y se postraron ante su rostro, y dijeron: “He aquí que somos tus siervos”.
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]
José les dijo: “No tengáis miedo, porque ¿estoy en el lugar de Dios?
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!
En cuanto a ustedes, quisieron hacer el mal contra mí, pero Dios lo quiso para el bien, para salvar a mucha gente con vida, como sucede hoy.
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.
Ahora, pues, no tengas miedo. Yo los mantendré a ustedes y a sus hijos”. Los consoló y les habló con amabilidad.
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
José vivió en Egipto, él y la casa de su padre. José vivió ciento diez 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].
José vio a los hijos de Efraín hasta la tercera generación. También los hijos de Maquir, hijo de Manasés, nacieron sobre las rodillas de José.
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.”
José dijo a sus hermanos: “Yo me estoy muriendo, pero seguramente Dios los visitará y los hará subir de esta tierra a la tierra que juró a Abraham, a Isaac y a 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 un juramento a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: “Ciertamente Dios os visitará y haréis subir mis huesos de aquí.”
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
Murió, pues, José, de ciento diez años de edad; lo embalsamaron y lo pusieron en un ataúd en Egipto.
