Genesi 50
1 E GIUSEPPE, gittatosi sopra la faccia di suo padre, pianse sopra lui, e lo baciò.
Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
2 Poi comandò a' suoi servitori medici, che imbalsamassero suo padre. E i medici imbalsamarono Israele.
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 E quaranta giorni intieri furono posti [ad imbalsamarlo]; perciocchè tanto tempo appunto si metteva [ad imbalsamar] coloro che s'imbalsamavano; e gli Egizj lo piansero per settanta giorni.
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 E, dopo che furono passati i giorni del pianto [che si fece] per lui, Giuseppe parlò alla famiglia di Faraone, dicendo: Deh! se io ho trovata grazia appo voi, parlate, vi prego, a Faraone, e ditegli:
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 Che mio padre mi ha fatto giurare, dicendo: Ecco, io mi muoio; seppelliscimi nella mia sepoltura, la quale io mi ho cavata nel paese di Canaan. Deh! [lascia] ora dunque che io vada a seppellire mio padre; poi ritornerò.
‘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 E Faraone disse: Va', seppellisci tuo padre, come egli ti ha fatto giurare.
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 Giuseppe adunque salì, per seppellir suo padre; e con lui andarono tutti gli anziani della casa di Faraone, servitori di esso, e tutti gli anziani del paese di Egitto;
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 e tutta la famiglia di Giuseppe, e i suoi fratelli, e la famiglia di suo padre; sol lasciarono nella contrada di Gosen le lor famiglie, e le lor gregge, e i loro armenti.
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 Con lui andarono eziandio carri e cavalieri; talchè lo stuolo fu grandissimo.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 E, come furono giunti all'aia di Atad, che [era] di là dal Giordano, fecero quivi un grande e molto grave lamento. E [Giuseppe] fece cordoglio di suo padre per sette giorni.
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 Or i Cananei, abitanti di quel paese, veggendo il cordoglio [che si faceva] nell'aia di Atad, dissero: Quest'[è] un duolo grave agli Egizj: perciò fu posto nome a quell'aia, Abel-Misraim, ch'[è] di là dal Giordano.
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 E i figliuoli di Giacobbe gli fecero come egli avea lor comandato.
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 E lo portarono nel paese di Canaan, e lo seppellirono nella spelonca del campo di Macpela, dirimpetto a Mamre, la quale Abrahamo avea comperata, insieme col campo, da Efron Hitteo, per possession di sepoltura.
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 E Giuseppe, dopo ch'ebbe seppellito suo padre, se ne ritornò in Egitto, co' suoi fratelli, e con tutti coloro che erano andati con lui, per seppellir suo padre.
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 Or i fratelli di Giuseppe, veggendo che il padre loro era morto, dissero: Forse Giuseppe ci porterà odio, e nimistà, e non mancherà di renderci tutto il male che gli abbiam fatto.
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 Laonde commisero [ad alcuni di andare] a Giuseppe, per dir[gli]; Tuo padre, avanti che morisse, ordinò, e disse:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Dite così a Giuseppe: Perdona, ti prego, ora a' tuoi fratelli il lor misfatto, e il lor peccato; conciossiachè essi ti abbiano fatto del male. Deh! perdona dunque ora a' servitori dell'Iddio di tuo padre il lor misfatto. E Giuseppe pianse, quando [coloro] gli parlarono.
‘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 I suoi fratelli andarono eziandio [a lui]; e, gittatisi [in terra] davanti a lui, gli dissero: Eccociti per servi.
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 Ma Giuseppe disse loro: Non temiate; perciocchè, [sono] io in luogo di Dio?
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 Voi certo avevate pensato del male contro a me; [ma] Iddio ha pensato [di convertir] quel [male] in bene, per far ciò che oggi [appare], per conservare in vita una gran gente.
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 Ora dunque, non temiate; io sostenterò voi, e le vostre famiglie. Così li consolò, e li riconfortò.
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 E Giuseppe dimorò in Egitto, con la famiglia di suo padre, e visse centodieci anni.
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 E vide ad Efraim figliuoli della terza [generazione]; i figliuoli di Machir, figliuolo di Manasse, nacquero anch'essi, [e furono allevati] sopra le ginocchia di Giuseppe.
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 E Giuseppe disse a' suoi fratelli: Tosto morrò, e Iddio per certo vi visiterà, e vi farà salire fuor di questo paese, nel paese il quale egli giurò ad Abrahamo, a Isacco, e a Giacobbe.
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 E Giuseppe fece giurare i figliuoli d'Israele, dicendo: Iddio per certo vi visiterà; allora trasportate di qui le mie ossa.
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 Poi Giuseppe morì, essendo di età di centodieci anni; e fu imbalsamato, e posto in un cataletto in Egitto.
So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
