Genesis 50

1 quod cernens Ioseph ruit super faciem patris flens et deosculans eum

And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

2 praecepitque servis suis medicis ut aromatibus condirent patrem

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

3 quibus iussa explentibus transierunt quadraginta dies iste quippe mos erat cadaverum conditorum flevitque eum Aegyptus septuaginta diebus

And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for 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 weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

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 take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

6 dixitque ei Pharao ascende et sepeli patrem tuum sicut adiuratus es

And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

7 quo ascendente ierunt cum eo omnes senes domus Pharaonis cunctique maiores natu terrae Aegypti

So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

8 domus Ioseph cum fratribus suis absque parvulis et gregibus atque armentis quae dereliquerant in terra Gessen

And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

9 habuit quoque in comitatu currus et equites et facta est turba non modica

And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.

10 veneruntque ad aream Atad quae sita est trans Iordanem ubi celebrantes exequias planctu magno atque vehementi impleverunt septem dies

And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

11 quod cum vidissent habitatores terrae Chanaan dixerunt planctus magnus est iste Aegyptiis et idcirco appellaverunt nomen loci illius Planctus Aegypti

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.

12 fecerunt ergo filii Iacob sicut praeceperat eis

So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

13 et portantes eum in terram Chanaan sepelierunt in spelunca duplici quam emerat Abraham cum agro in possessionem sepulchri ab Ephron Hettheo contra faciem Mambre

For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

14 reversusque est Ioseph in Aegyptum cum fratribus suis et omni comitatu sepulto patre

And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

15 quo mortuo timentes fratres eius et mutuo conloquentes ne forte memor sit iniuriae quam passus est et reddat nobis malum omne quod fecimus

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

16 mandaverunt ei pater tuus praecepit nobis antequam moreretur

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

17 ut haec tibi verbis illius diceremus obsecro ut obliviscaris sceleris fratrum tuorum et peccati atque malitiae quam exercuerunt in te nos quoque oramus ut servis Dei patris tui dimittas iniquitatem hanc quibus auditis flevit Ioseph

You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

18 veneruntque ad eum fratres sui et proni in terram dixerunt servi tui sumus

Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

19 quibus ille respondit nolite timere num Dei possumus rennuere voluntatem

And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?

20 vos cogitastis de me malum et Deus vertit illud in bonum ut exaltaret me sicut inpraesentiarum cernitis et salvos faceret multos populos

As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.

21 nolite metuere ego pascam vos et parvulos vestros consolatusque est eos et blande ac leniter est locutus

So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.

22 et habitavit in Aegypto cum omni domo patris sui vixitque centum decem annis

Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

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: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.

24 quibus transactis locutus est fratribus suis post mortem meam Deus visitabit vos et ascendere faciet de terra ista ad terram quam iuravit Abraham Isaac et Iacob

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

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

Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

26 mortuus est expletis centum decem vitae suae annis et conditus aromatibus repositus est in loculo in Aegypto

So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.