Genèse 50
1 Joseph tomba sur le visage de son père, pleura sur lui et le baisa.
Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
2 Joseph ordonna à ses serviteurs, les médecins, d'embaumer son père; et les médecins embaumèrent Israël.
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.
3 On lui consacra quarante jours, car c'est le nombre de jours qu'il faut pour embaumer. Les Égyptiens pleurèrent Israël pendant soixante-dix jours.
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.
4 Lorsque les jours où il pleurait furent écoulés, Joseph s'adressa au bâton de Pharaon, en disant: « Si maintenant j'ai trouvé grâce à tes yeux, parle aux oreilles de Pharaon, en disant:
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:
5 Mon père m'a fait jurer en disant: « Voici, je meurs. Enterre-moi dans le tombeau que je me suis creusé au pays de Canaan. » Maintenant, laisse-moi monter et enterrer mon père, et je reviendrai. »
‘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.’”
6 Pharaon dit: « Monte, et enterre ton père, comme il te l'a fait jurer. »
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.’”
7 Joseph monta pour enterrer son père; et avec lui montèrent tous les serviteurs de Pharaon, les anciens de sa maison, tous les anciens du pays d'Égypte,
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.
8 toute la maison de Joseph, ses frères et la maison de son père. Ils ne laissèrent dans le pays de Gosen que leurs petits enfants, leurs brebis et leurs bœufs.
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.
9 Des chars et des cavaliers montèrent avec lui. C'était une très grande troupe.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 Ils arrivèrent à l'aire d'Atad, qui est de l'autre côté du Jourdain, et là ils se lamentèrent d'une manière très grande et très sévère. Il porta le deuil de son père pendant sept jours.
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.
11 Lorsque les habitants du pays, les Cananéens, virent le deuil dans l'aire d'Atad, ils dirent: « C'est là un deuil très grave chez les Égyptiens. » C'est pourquoi on l'appela Abel Mizraim, qui est au-delà du Jourdain.
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].’
12 Ses fils lui firent ce qu'il leur avait ordonné,
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 car ses fils le transportèrent au pays de Canaan et l'enterrèrent dans la grotte du champ de Macpéla, qu'Abraham avait achetée avec le champ, comme possession pour une sépulture, à Ephron le Hittite, près de Mamré.
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.
14 Joseph retourna en Égypte, lui et ses frères, et tous ceux qui étaient montés avec lui pour enterrer son père, après qu'il eut enterré son père.
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.
15 Lorsque les frères de Joseph virent que leur père était mort, ils dirent: « Il se peut que Joseph nous haïsse et qu'il nous rembourse entièrement tout le mal que nous lui avons fait. »
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?”
16 Ils envoyèrent un message à Joseph en disant: « Avant de mourir, ton père a donné cet ordre:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Tu diras à Joseph: « Maintenant, pardonne la désobéissance de tes frères et leur péché, car ils t'ont fait du mal. » Maintenant, pardonnez la désobéissance des serviteurs du Dieu de votre père. » Joseph pleura quand ils lui parlèrent.
‘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 Ses frères allèrent aussi se prosterner devant lui, et ils dirent: « Voici, nous sommes tes serviteurs. »
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.”
19 Joseph leur dit: « N'ayez pas peur, car suis-je à la place de Dieu?
But Joseph replied to them, “Do not be afraid! [God is the one who punishes people]; (am I God?/I am not God!) [RHQ]
20 Quant à vous, vous avez voulu le mal contre moi, mais Dieu l'a voulu en bien, pour sauver beaucoup de gens en vie, comme cela arrive aujourd'hui.
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!
21 Ne crains donc pas maintenant. Je subviendrai à vos besoins et à ceux de vos enfants. » Il les réconforta et leur parla avec bonté.
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.
22 Joseph vécut en Égypte, lui et la maison de son père. Joseph vécut cent dix ans.
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 Joseph vit les enfants d'Éphraïm jusqu'à la troisième génération. Les enfants de Makir, fils de Manassé, naquirent aussi sur les genoux de Joseph.
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].
24 Joseph dit à ses frères: « Je meurs, mais Dieu vous visitera et vous fera monter de ce pays dans le pays qu'il a juré à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob. »
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.”
25 Joseph fit prêter serment aux enfants d'Israël, en disant: « Dieu vous visitera certainement, et vous ferez monter mes ossements d'ici. »
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.
26 Joseph mourut donc, âgé de cent dix ans, on l'embauma et on le mit dans un cercueil en Égypte.
So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
