< Genesis 50 >

1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
約瑟伏在他父親的面上哀哭,與他親嘴。
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
約瑟吩咐伺候他的醫生用香料薰他父親,醫生就用香料薰了以色列。
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed: ) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
薰屍的常例是四十天;那四十天滿了,埃及人為他哀哭了七十天。
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
為他哀哭的日子過了,約瑟對法老家中的人說:「我若在你們眼前蒙恩,請你們報告法老說:
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
『我父親要死的時候叫我起誓說:你要將我葬在迦南地,在我為自己所掘的墳墓裏。』現在求你讓我上去葬我父親,以後我必回來。」
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
法老說:「你可以上去,照着你父親叫你起的誓,將他葬埋。」
7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
於是約瑟上去葬他父親。與他一同上去的,有法老的臣僕和法老家中的長老,並埃及國的長老,
8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.
還有約瑟的全家和他的弟兄們,並他父親的眷屬;只有他們的婦人孩子,和羊群牛群,都留在歌珊地。
9 And there went with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
又有車輛馬兵,和他一同上去;那一幫人甚多。
10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
他們到了約旦河外、亞達的禾場,就在那裏大大地號咷痛哭。約瑟為他父親哀哭了七天。
11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan.
迦南的居民見亞達禾場上的哀哭,就說:「這是埃及人一場極大的哀哭。」因此那地方名叫亞伯‧麥西,是在約旦河東。
12 And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:
雅各的兒子們就遵着他父親所吩咐的辦了,
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
把他搬到迦南地,葬在幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞裏;那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業,作墳地的。
14 And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
約瑟葬了他父親以後,就和眾弟兄,並一切同他上去葬他父親的人,都回埃及去了。
15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him.
約瑟的哥哥們見父親死了,就說:「或者約瑟懷恨我們,照着我們從前待他一切的惡足足地報復我們。」
16 And they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying,
他們就打發人去見約瑟,說:「你父親未死以先吩咐說:
17 So shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did to thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
『你們要對約瑟這樣說:從前你哥哥們惡待你,求你饒恕他們的過犯和罪惡。』如今求你饒恕你父親上帝之僕人的過犯。」他們對約瑟說這話,約瑟就哭了。
18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face: and they said, Behold, we [are] thy servants.
他的哥哥們又來俯伏在他面前,說:「我們是你的僕人。」
19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God?
約瑟對他們說:「不要害怕,我豈能代替上帝呢?
20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save many people alive.
從前你們的意思是要害我,但上帝的意思原是好的,要保全許多人的性命,成就今日的光景。
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
現在你們不要害怕,我必養活你們和你們的婦人孩子。」於是約瑟用親愛的話安慰他們。
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
約瑟和他父親的眷屬都住在埃及。約瑟活了一百一十歲。
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third [generation]: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
約瑟得見以法蓮第三代的子孫。瑪拿西的孫子、瑪吉的兒子也養在約瑟的膝上。
24 And Joseph said to his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
約瑟對他弟兄們說:「我要死了,但上帝必定看顧你們,領你們從這地上去,到他起誓所應許給亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各之地。」
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
約瑟叫以色列的子孫起誓說:「上帝必定看顧你們;你們要把我的骸骨從這裏搬上去。」
26 So Joseph died, [being] a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
約瑟死了,正一百一十歲。人用香料將他薰了,把他收殮在棺材裏,停在埃及。

< Genesis 50 >