Genèse 50
1 Joseph aussitôt se jeta sur la face de son père, le baisa et le pleura.
Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
2 Puis il ordonna à ses serviteurs préposés aux funérailles d'embaumer son père, et ses serviteurs 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 Ils y employèrent quarante jours, car tel est le nombre des jours de l'embaumement, et l'Égypte fut en deuil 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 Dès que les jours du deuil furent écoulés, Joseph s'adressa aux grands officiers du Pharaon, et il leur dit: Si j'ai trouvé grâce devant vous, parlez de moi au Pharaon, dites-lui que mon père m'a adjuré, 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 Tu m'enseveliras dans le sépulcre que j'ai creusé pour moi en la terre de Chanaan; que maintenant donc je parte pour ensevelir mon père, et je reviendrai auprès de vous.
‘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 Et le Pharaon dit à Joseph: Pars et ensevelis ton père comme il t'en a adjuré.
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 partit donc pour ensevelir son père; et avec lui partirent tous les serviteurs du Pharaon, les anciens de sa maison, tous les anciens du peuple 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 Et toute la famille de Joseph, ses frères, toute sa famille paternelle ainsi que toute sa parenté; mais les brebis et les bœufs restèrent en la terre de Gessen.
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 partirent en outre avec Joseph, et ils formèrent un camp très nombreux.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 Arrivés à l'aire d'Atad, qui est au delà du Jourdain, ils pleurèrent Jacob avec de grands et violents gémissements, et Joseph fit à son père un deuil de 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 Les hommes qui habitaient la terre de Chanaan virent le deuil auprès de l'aire d'Atad, et ils dirent: C'est un grand deuil des Égyptiens. À cause de cela on appela Deuil d'Égypte ce lieu 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 Ainsi firent à leur père les enfants de Jacob.
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 Ils le transportèrent en la terre de Chanaan et ils l'ensevelirent dans la caverne double qu'avait achetée Abraham d'Ephron l'Hettéen, en face de Membré, pour en faire une sépulture.
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 Après cela, Joseph retourna en Égypte avec ses frères et tous ceux qui l'avaient accompagné pour ensevelir Israël.
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 Et les frères de Joseph, leur père mort, se dirent: Craignons que Joseph ne nous garde rancune, et ne nous fasse porter la peine de toute la méchanceté que nous avons montrée pour lui.
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 Sur quoi, ils allèrent trouver Joseph, et ils lui dirent: Ton père au moment de mourir t'a adjuré, et nous a dit:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Parlez en ces termes à Joseph: Remets à tes serviteurs leur iniquité et le crime qu'ils ont commis en exerçant contre toi leur malice. Pardonne maintenant l'iniquité des serviteurs du Dieu de ton père. Or, pendant qu'ils parlaient ainsi, Joseph pleura.
‘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 Et, s'étant approchés de lui, ils lui dirent: Nous sommes tes esclaves.
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 répondit: N'ayez point de crainte, car je suis 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 Vous m'avez voulu du mal; mais Dieu m'a voulu du bien, afin qu'advînt ce qui est aujourd'hui et qu'un peuple nombreux fût nourri.
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 Il leur dit encore: N'ayez point de crainte: je vous nourrirai vous et vos familles. Et il les consola, et il leur parla au cœur.
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 Après cela, Joseph demeura en Égypte avec ses frères, et toute la famille de son père; et Joseph vécut cent dix ans.
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 Joseph vit des fils d'Ephraïm jusqu'à la troisième génération, et les fils de Machir, fils de Manassé, naquirent 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 parla ensuite à ses frères, et il leur dit: Je meurs; mais Dieu vous visitera, et il vous conduira de cette terre en la terre qu'il a promise à nos pères Abraham, Isaac et 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 Et Joseph adjura ses frères, disant: Lorsque Dieu vous visitera, emportez d'ici mes ossements avec vous.
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 à cent dix ans, et après qu'ils l'eurent embaumé, ils le mirent 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.
