Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
Entonces se echó José sobre el rostro de su padre, y 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.
Y mandó José a sus siervos médicos que embalsamasen 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.
Y le cumplieron cuarenta días, porque así cumplían los días de los embalsamados, y lo lloraron los egipcios 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:
Y pasados los días de su luto, habló José a los de la casa del Faraón, diciendo: Si he hallado ahora gracia en vuestros ojos, os ruego que habléis en 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 conjuró diciendo: He aquí yo muero; en mi sepulcro, que yo cavé para mí en la tierra de Canaán, allí me sepultarás; ruego pues que vaya yo ahora, y sepultaré 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.’”
Y el Faraón dijo: Ve, y sepulta a tu padre, como él te conjuró.
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.
Entonces José subió a sepultar a su padre; y subieron con él todos los siervos del Faraón, los ancianos de su casa, y todos los ancianos de la tierra 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.
Y toda la casa de José, y sus hermanos, y la casa de su padre; solamente dejaron en la tierra de Gosén sus niños, y sus ovejas y sus vacas.
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
Y subieron también con él carros y gente de a caballo, y se hizo un escuadrón 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.
Y llegaron hasta la era de Atad, que está al otro lado del Jordán, y endecharon allí con grande y muy grave lamentación; y José hizo a su padre duelo por 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].’
Y viendo los moradores de la tierra, los cananeos, el llanto en la era de Atad, dijeron: Llanto grande es este de los egipcios: por eso fue llamado su nombre Abel-mizraim, que está al otro lado del Jordán.
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
E hicieron sus hijos con él, según les había mandado;
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 lo llevaron sus hijos a la tierra de Canaán, y lo sepultaron en la cueva del campo de la dobladura, la que había comprado Abraham con el mismo campo, en heredad de sepultura, de Efrón el heteo, delante 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.
Y se tornó José a Egipto, él y sus hermanos, y todos los que subieron con él a sepultar a su padre, después que lo hubo sepultado.
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?”
Y viendo los hermanos de José que su padre era muerto, dijeron: Por ventura nos aborrecerá José, y nos dará el pago de 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:
Y enviaron a decir a José: Tu padre mandó antes de su muerte, 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.
Así diréis a José: Te ruego que perdones ahora la maldad de tus hermanos, y su pecado, porque mal te galardonaron; por tanto ahora te rogamos que perdones la maldad de los siervos del Dios de tu padre. Y José lloró mientras hablaban.
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.”
Y vinieron también sus hermanos, y se postraron delante de él, y dijeron: Henos aquí por 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]
Y les respondió José: No temáis: ¿Soy yo en 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!
Vosotros pensasteis mal sobre mí, mas Dios lo pensó por bien, para hacer lo que vemos hoy, para dar vida a mucho pueblo.
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 tengáis miedo; yo os sustentaré a vosotros y a vuestros hijos. Así los consoló, y les habló al corazón.
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
Y estuvo José en Egipto, él y la casa de su padre: y vivió José 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].
Y vio José los hijos de Efraín hasta la tercera generación; también los hijos de Maquir, hijo de Manasés, fueron criados 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.”
Y José dijo a sus hermanos: Yo me muero; mas Dios ciertamente os visitará, y os 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.
Y conjuró José a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Dios ciertamente os visitará, y haréis llevar de aquí mis huesos.
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
Y murió José de edad de ciento diez años; y lo embalsamaron, y fue puesto en un arca en Egipto.
