Genesi 50
1 Allora Giuseppe si gettò sulla faccia di suo padre, pianse su lui, e lo baciò.
Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
2 Poi Giuseppe ordinò ai medici ch’erano al suo servizio, d’imbalsamare 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 Ci vollero quaranta giorni; perché tanto è il tempo che s’impiega ad imbalsamare; e gli Egiziani lo piansero 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 quando i giorni del lutto fatto per lui furon passati, Giuseppe parlò alla casa di Faraone, dicendo: “Se ora ho trovato grazia agli occhi vostri, fate giungere agli orecchi di Faraone queste parole:
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 Mio padre m’ha fatto giurare e m’ha detto: Ecco, io mi muoio; seppelliscimi nel mio sepolcro, che mi sono scavato nel paese di Canaan. Ora dunque, permetti ch’io salga e seppellisca mio padre; poi tornerò”.
‘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 rispose: “Sali, e seppellisci tuo padre come t’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 Allora Giuseppe salì a seppellire suo padre; e con lui salirono tutti i servitori di Faraone, gli Anziani della sua casa e tutti gli Anziani del paese d’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 casa di Giuseppe e i suoi fratelli e la casa di suo padre. Non lasciarono nel paese di Goscen che i loro bambini, i loro greggi 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 salirono pure carri e cavalieri; talché il corteggio era numerosissimo.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 E come furon giunti all’aia di Atad, ch’è oltre il Giordano, vi fecero grandi e profondi lamenti; e Giuseppe fece a suo padre un lutto di 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 quando gli abitanti del paese, i Cananei, videro il lutto dell’aia di Atad, dissero: “Questo e un grave lutto per gli Egiziani!” Perciò fu messo nome Abel-Mitsraim a quell’aia, ch’è oltre il 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 I figliuoli di Giacobbe fecero per lui quello ch’egli aveva ordinato loro:
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 lo trasportarono nel paese di Canaan, e lo seppellirono nella spelonca del campo di Macpela, che Abrahamo avea comprato, col campo, da Efron lo Hitteo, come sepolcro di sua proprietà, dirimpetto a 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 Giuseppe, dopo ch’ebbe sepolto suo padre, se ne tornò in Egitto coi suoi fratelli e con tutti quelli ch’erano saliti con lui a seppellire 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 I fratelli di Giuseppe, quando videro che il loro padre era morto, dissero: “Chi sa che Giuseppe non ci porti odio, e non ci renda 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 E mandarono a dire a Giuseppe: “Tuo padre, prima di morire, dette quest’ordine:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Dite così a Giuseppe: Deh, perdona ora ai tuoi fratelli il loro misfatto e il loro peccato; perché t’hanno fatto del male. Deh, perdona dunque ora il misfatto de’ servi dell’Iddio di tuo padre!” E Giuseppe, quando gli fu parlato così, pianse.
‘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 E i suoi fratelli vennero anch’essi, si prostrarono ai suoi piedi, e dissero: “Ecco, siamo tuoi 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 E Giuseppe disse loro: “Non temete; poiché son io forse al posto 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 avevate pensato del male contro a me; ma Dio ha pensato di convertirlo in bene, per compiere quello che oggi avviene: per conservare in vita un popolo numeroso.
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 temete; io sostenterò voi e i vostri figliuoli”. E li confortò, e parlò al loro cuore.
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 Giuseppe dimorò in Egitto: egli, con la casa di suo padre; e visse centodieci anni.
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 Giuseppe vide i figliuoli di Efraim, fino alla terza generazione; anche i figliuoli di Makir, figliuolo di Manasse, nacquero sulle sue ginocchia.
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 ai suoi fratelli: “Io sto per morire; ma Dio per certo vi visiterà, e vi farà salire, da questo paese, nel paese che promise con giuramento 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, in età di centodieci anni; e fu imbalsamato, e posto in una bara in Egitto.
So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
