Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
Yusuf kendini babasının üzerine attı, ağlayarak onu öptü.
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.
Babasının cesedini mumyalamaları için özel hekimlerine buyruk verdi. Hekimler İsrail'i mumyaladılar.
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.
Bu iş kırk gün sürdü. Mumyalama için bu süre gerekliydi. Mısırlılar İsrail için yetmiş gün yas tuttu.
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:
Yas günleri geçince, Yusuf firavunun ev halkına, “Eğer benden hoşnut kaldınızsa, lütfen firavunla konuşun” dedi,
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.’”
“Babam bana ant içirdi: ‘Ölmek üzereyim. Beni Kenan ülkesinde kendim için kazdırdığım mezara gömeceksin’ dedi. Şimdi lütfen firavuna bildirin, izin versin gideyim, babamı gömüp geleyim.”
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.’”
Firavun, “Git, babanı göm, andını yerine getir” dedi.
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.
Böylece Yusuf babasını gömmeye gitti. Firavunun bütün görevlileri, sarayın ve Mısır'ın ileri gelenleri ona eşlik etti.
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.
Yusuf'un bütün ailesi, kardeşleri, babasının ev halkı da onunla birlikteydi. Yalnız çocukları, davarlarla sığırları Goşen'de bıraktılar.
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
Arabalarla atlılar da onları izledi. Büyük bir alay oluşturdular.
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.
Şeria Irmağı'nın doğusunda Atat Harmanı'na varınca, yüksek sesle, acı acı ağıt yaktılar. Yusuf babası için yedi gün yas tuttu.
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].’
O bölgede yaşayan Kenanlılar, Atat Harmanı'ndaki yası görünce, “Mısırlılar ne kadar hüzünlü yas tutuyor!” dediler. Bu yüzden, Şeria Irmağı'nın doğusundaki bu yere Avel-Misrayim adı verildi.
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
Yakup'un oğulları, babalarının vermiş olduğu buyruğu tam tamına yerine getirdiler.
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.
Onu Kenan ülkesine götürüp Mamre yakınlarında Makpela Tarlası'ndaki mağaraya gömdüler. O mağarayı mezar yapmak üzere tarlayla birlikte Hititli Efron'dan İbrahim satın almıştı.
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.
Yusuf babasını gömdükten sonra, kendisi, kardeşleri ve onunla birlikte babasını gömmeye gelenlerin hepsi Mısır'a döndüler.
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?”
Babalarının ölümünden sonra Yusuf'un kardeşleri, “Belki Yusuf bize kin besliyordur” dediler, “Ya ona yaptığımız kötülüğe karşılık bizden öç almaya kalkarsa?”
16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
Böylece Yusuf'a haber gönderdiler: “Babamız ölmeden önce Yusuf'a şöyle deyin diye buyurmuştu: ‘Kardeşlerin sana kötülük yaptılar, lütfen onların suçunu, günahını bağışla.’ Ne olur şimdi günahımızı bağışla. Biz babanın Tanrısı'nın kullarıyız.” Yusuf bu haberi alınca ağladı.
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.
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.”
Bunun üzerine kardeşleri gidip onun önünde yere kapanarak, “Senin köleniz” dediler.
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]
Yusuf, “Korkmayın” dedi, “Ben Tanrı mıyım?
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!
Siz bana kötülük düşündünüz, ama Tanrı bugün olduğu gibi birçok halkın yaşamını korumak için o kötülüğü iyiliğe çevirdi.
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.
Korkmanıza gerek yok, size de çocuklarınıza da bakacağım.” Yüreklerine dokunacak güzel sözlerle onlara güven verdi.
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
Yusuf'la babasının ev halkı Mısır'a yerleştiler. Yusuf yüz on yıl yaşadı.
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].
Efrayim'in üç göbek çocuklarını gördü. Manaşşe'nin oğlu Makir'in çocukları onun elinde doğdu.
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.”
Yusuf yakınlarına, “Ben ölmek üzereyim” dedi, “Ama Tanrı kesinlikle size yardım edecek; sizi İbrahim'e, İshak'a, Yakup'a ant içerek söz verdiği topraklara götürecek.”
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.
Sonra onlara ant içirerek, “Tanrı kesinlikle size yardım edecek” dedi, “O zaman kemiklerimi buradan götürürsünüz.”
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
Yusuf yüz on yaşında öldü. Onu mumyalayıp Mısır'da bir tabuta koydular.
