Genesis 50

1 Quod cernens Ioseph, ruit super faciem patris flens et deosculans eum.

And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 Præcepitque servis suis medicis ut aromatibus condirent patrem.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 Quibus iussa explentibus, transierunt quadraginta dies: iste quippe mos erat cadaverum conditorum. Flevitque eum Ægyptus septuaginta diebus.

And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed: ) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

4 Et expleto planctus tempore, locutus est Ioseph ad familiam Pharaonis: Si inveni gratiam in conspectu vestro, loquimini in auribus Pharaonis:

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 eo quod pater meus adiuraverit me, dicens: En morior, in sepulchro meo quod fodi mihi in terra Chanaan, sepelies me. Ascendam igitur, et sepeliam patrem meum, ac revertar.

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 Dixitque ei Pharao: Ascende et sepeli patrem tuum sicut adiuratus es.

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

7 Quo ascendente, ierunt cum eo omnes senes domus Pharaonis, cunctique maiores natu Terræ Ægypti:

And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 domus Ioseph cum fratribus suis, absque parvulis et gregibus, atque armentis quæ dereliquerant in Terra Gessen.

And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

9 Habuit quoque in comitatu currus et equites: et facta est turba non modica.

And there went with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 Veneruntque ad Aream Atad, quæ sita est trans Iordanem: ubi celebrantes exequias planctu magno atque vehementi, impleverunt septem dies.

And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11 Quod cum vidissent habitatores Terræ Chanaan, dixerunt: Planctus magnus est iste Ægyptiis. Et idcirco vocatum est nomen loci illius, Planctus Ægypti.

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan.

12 Fecerunt ergo filii Iacob sicut præceperat eis:

And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:

13 Et portantes eum in Terram Chanaan, sepelierunt eum in spelunca duplici, quam emerat Abraham cum agro in possessionem sepulchri ab Ephron Hethæo contra faciem Mambre.

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 Reversusque est Ioseph in Ægyptum cum fratribus suis, et omni comitatu, sepulto patre.

And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 Quo mortuo, timentes fratres eius, et mutuo colloquentes: Ne forte memor sit iniuriæ quam passus est, et reddat nobis omne malum quod fecimus,

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him.

16 mandaverunt ei dicentes: Pater tuus præcepit nobis antequam moreretur,

And they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying,

17 ut hæc tibi verbis illius diceremus: Obsecro ut obliviscaris sceleris fratrum tuorum, et peccati atque malitiæ quam exercuerunt in te: nos quoque oramus ut servis Dei patris tui dimittas iniquitatem hanc. Quibus auditis flevit Ioseph.

So shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did to thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 Veneruntque ad eum fratres sui: et proni adorantes in terram dixerunt: Servi tui sumus.

And his brethren also went and fell down before his face: and they said, Behold, we [are] thy servants.

19 Quibus ille respondit: Nolite timere: num Dei possumus resistere voluntati?

And Joseph said to them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God?

20 Vos cogitastis de me malum: sed Deus vertit illud in bonum, ut exaltaret me, sicut in præsentiarum cernitis, et salvos faceret multos populos.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save many people alive.

21 Nolite timere: ego pascam vos et parvulos vestros. Consolatusque est eos, et blande ac leniter est locutus.

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

22 Et habitavit in Ægypto cum omni domo patris sui: vixitque centum decem annis.

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

23 Et vidit Ephraim filios usque ad tertiam generationem. Filii quoque Machir filii Manasse nati sunt in genibus Ioseph.

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third [generation]: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

24 Quibus transactis, locutus est fratribus suis: Post mortem meam Deus visitabit vos, et ascendere vos faciet de terra ista ad terram quam iuravit Abraham, Isaac, et Iacob.

And Joseph said to his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 Cumque adiurasset eos atque dixisset: Deus visitabit vos: asportate ossa mea vobiscum de loco isto:

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

26 mortuus est, expletis centum decem vitæ suæ annis. Et conditus aromatibus, repositus est in loculo in Ægypto.

So Joseph died, [being] a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.