Genèse 50
1 Joseph se jeta 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 Il ordonna aux médecins à son service 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 Quarante jours s’écoulèrent ainsi, et furent employés à l’embaumer. Et les Égyptiens le pleurèrent 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 Quand les jours du deuil furent passés, Joseph s’adressa aux gens de la maison de Pharaon, et leur dit: Si j’ai trouvé grâce à vos yeux, rapportez, je vous prie, à Pharaon ce que je vous dis.
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 vais mourir! Tu m’enterreras dans le sépulcre que je me suis acheté au pays de Canaan. Je voudrais donc y monter, pour 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 répondit: 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. Avec lui montèrent tous les serviteurs de Pharaon, 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: on ne laissa dans le pays de Gosen que les enfants, les brebis et les 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 Il y avait encore avec Joseph des chars et des cavaliers, en sorte que le cortège était très nombreux.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 Arrivés à l’aire d’Athad, qui est audelà du Jourdain, ils firent entendre de grandes et profondes lamentations; et Joseph fit en l’honneur de 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 habitants du pays, les Cananéens, furent témoins de ce deuil dans l’aire d’Athad, et ils dirent: Voilà un grand deuil parmi les Égyptiens! C’est pourquoi l’on a donné le nom d’Abel-Mitsraïm à cette aire 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 C’est ainsi que les fils de Jacob exécutèrent les ordres de leur père.
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 Ils le transportèrent au pays de Canaan, et l’enterrèrent dans la caverne du champ de Macpéla, qu’Abraham avait achetée d’Éphron, le Héthien, comme propriété sépulcrale, et qui est vis-à-vis 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, après avoir enterré son père, retourna en Égypte, avec ses frères et tous ceux qui étaient montés avec lui pour enterrer 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 Quand les frères de Joseph virent que leur père était mort, ils dirent: Si Joseph nous prenait en haine, et nous rendait 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 Et ils firent dire à Joseph: Ton père a donné cet ordre avant de mourir:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Vous parlerez ainsi à Joseph: Oh! Pardonne le crime de tes frères et leur péché, car ils t’ont fait du mal! Pardonne maintenant le péché des serviteurs du Dieu de ton père! Joseph pleura, en entendant ces paroles.
‘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 vinrent eux-mêmes se prosterner devant lui, et ils dirent: 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: Soyez sans crainte; 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 Vous aviez médité de me faire du mal: Dieu l’a changé en bien, pour accomplir ce qui arrive aujourd’hui, pour sauver la vie à un peuple nombreux.
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 Soyez donc sans crainte; je vous entretiendrai, vous et vos enfants. Et il les consola, en parlant à leur 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 Joseph demeura en Égypte, lui et la maison de son père. Il vécut cent dix ans.
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 Joseph vit les fils d’Éphraïm jusqu’à la troisième génération; et les fils de Makir, fils de Manassé, naquirent sur ses genoux.
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 vais mourir! Mais Dieu vous visitera, et il vous fera remonter de ce pays-ci dans le pays qu’il a juré de donner 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 jurer les fils d’Israël, en disant: Dieu vous visitera; et vous ferez remonter mes os loin 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, 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.
