1 Mose 50
1 Da fiel Joseph auf seines Vaters Angesicht und weinete über ihm und küssete ihn.
Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
2 Und Joseph befahl seinen Knechten, den Ärzten, daß sie seinen Vater salbeten. Und die Ärzte salbeten Israel,
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 bis daß vierzig Tage um waren; denn so lange währen die Salbetage. Und die Ägypter beweineten ihn siebenzig Tage.
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 Da nun die Leidetage aus waren, redete Joseph mit Pharaos Gesinde und sprach: Habe ich Gnade vor euch funden, so redet mit Pharao und sprechet:
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 Mein Vater hat einen Eid von mir genommen und gesagt: Siehe, ich sterbe; begrabe mich in meinem Grabe, das ich mir im Lande Kanaan gegraben habe. So will ich nun hinaufziehen und meinen Vater begraben und wiederkommen.
‘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 Pharao sprach: Zeuch hinauf und begrabe deinen Vater, wie du ihm geschworen hast.
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 Also zog Joseph hinauf, seinen Vater zu begraben. Und es zogen mit ihm alle Knechte Pharaos, die Ältesten seines Hauses und alle Ältesten des Landes Ägypten,
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 dazu das ganze Gesinde Josephs und seine Brüder und das Gesinde seines Vaters. Alleine ihre Kinder, Schafe und Ochsen ließen sie im Lande Gosen.
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 Und zogen auch mit ihm hinauf Wagen und Reisige, und waren ein fast großes Heer.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 Da sie nun an die Tenne Atad kamen, die jenseit des Jordans liegt, da hielten sie eine sehr große und bittere Klage; und er trug über seinen Vater Leid sieben Tage.
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 Und da die Leute im Lande, die Kanaaniter, die Klage bei der Tenne Atad sahen, sprachen sie: Die Ägypter halten da große Klage. Daher heißt man den Ort der Ägypter Klage, welcher liegt jenseit des Jordans.
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 Und seine Kinder taten, wie er ihnen befohlen hatte,
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 und führeten ihn ins Land Kanaan und begruben ihn in der zwiefachen Höhle des Ackers, die Abraham erkauft hatte mit dem Acker zum Erbbegräbnis von Ephron, dem Hethiter, gegen Mamre.
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 Als sie ihn nun begraben hatten, zog Joseph wieder nach Ägypten mit seinen Brüdern und mit allen, die mit ihm hinaufgezogen waren, seinen Vater zu begraben.
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 Die Brüder Josephs aber fürchteten sich, da ihr Vater gestorben war, und sprachen: Joseph möchte uns gram sein und vergelten alle Bosheit, die wir an ihm getan haben.
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 Darum ließen sie ihm sagen: Dein Vater befahl vor seinem Tode und sprach:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Also sollt ihr Joseph sagen: Lieber, vergib deinen Brüdern die Missetat und ihre Sünde, daß sie so übel an dir getan haben. Lieber, so vergib nun die Missetat uns, den Dienern des Gottes deines Vaters! Aber Joseph weinete, da sie solches mit ihm redeten.
‘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 Und seine Brüder gingen hin und fielen vor ihm nieder und sprachen: Siehe, wir sind deine Knechte.
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 sprach zu ihnen: Fürchtet euch nicht, denn ich bin unter Gott.
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 Ihr gedachtet es böse mit mir zu machen; aber Gott gedachte es gut zu machen, daß er täte, wie es jetzt am Tage ist, zu erhalten viel Volks.
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 So fürchtet euch nun nicht; ich will euch versorgen und eure Kinder. Und er tröstete sie und redete freundlich mit ihnen.
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 Also wohnete Joseph in Ägypten mit seines Vaters Hause und lebte hundertundzehn Jahre.
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 Und sah Ephraims Kinder bis ins dritte Glied. Desselbigengleichen die Kinder Machirs, Manasses Sohnes, zeugeten auch Kinder auf Josephs Schoß.
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 Und Joseph sprach zu seinen Brüdern: Ich sterbe, und Gott wird euch heimsuchen und aus diesem Lande führen in das Land, das er Abraham, Isaak und Jakob geschworen hat.
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 Darum nahm er einen Eid von den Kindern Israels und sprach: Wenn euch Gott heimsuchen wird, so führet meine Gebeine von dannen.
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 Also starb Joseph, da er war hundertundzehn Jahre alt. Und sie salbeten ihn und legten ihn in eine Lade in Ägypten.
So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
