Gênesis 50
1 Então José se lançou sobre o rosto de seu pai; e chorou sobre ele, e o beijou.
Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
2 E José ordenou aos seus servos, os médicos, que embalsamassem a seu pai: e os médicos embalsamaram a 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 E cumpriram-se-lhe quarenta dias; porque assim se cumprem os dias daqueles que se embalsamam: e os egípcios o choraram setenta dias.
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 Passados pois os dias de seu choro, falou José à casa de faraó, dizendo: Se agora tenho achado graça aos vossos olhos, rogo-vos que faleis aos ouvidos de faraó, dizendo:
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 Meu pai me fez jurar, dizendo: Eis que eu morro: em meu sepulcro, que cavei para mim na terra de Canaan, ali me sepultarás. Agora pois, te peço, que eu suba, para que sepulte a meu pai; então voltarei.
‘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 faraó disse: Sobe, e sepulta a teu pai como ele te fez jurar.
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 E José subiu para sepultar a seu pai: e subiram com ele todos os servos de faraó, os anciãos da sua casa, e todos os anciãos da terra do Egito,
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 Como também toda a casa de José, e seus irmãos, e a casa de seu pai: somente deixaram na terra de Gosen os seus meninos e as suas ovelhas, e as suas vacas.
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 E subiram também com ele, tanto carros como gente a cavalo; e o concurso foi grandíssimo.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 Chegando eles pois à planície do espinhal, que está além do Jordão, fizeram um grande e gravíssimo pranto; e fez a seu pai um grande pranto por sete dias.
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 E vendo os moradores da terra, os cananeus, o luto na planície do espinhal, disseram: É este o pranto grande dos egípcios. Por isso chamou-se o seu nome Abelmizraim, que está além do Jordão.
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 fizeram-lhe os seus filhos assim como ele lhes ordenara,
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 Pois os seus filhos o levaram à terra de Canaan, e o sepultaram na cova do campo de Machpela, que Abraão tinha comprado com o campo, por herança de sepultura, de Ephron, o hetheu, em frente de 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 Depois tornou-se José para o Egito, ele e seus irmãos, e todos os que com ele subiram a sepultar seu pai, depois de haver sepultado seu pai.
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 Vendo então os irmãos de José que seu pai já estava morto, disseram: Porventura nos aborrecerá José, e nos pagará certamente todo o mal que lhe fizemos.
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 Portanto enviaram a José, dizendo: Teu pai mandou, antes da sua morte, dizendo:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Assim direis a José: Perdoa, rogo-te, a transgressão de teus irmãos, e o seu pecado, porque te fizeram mal: agora pois rogamos-te que perdoes a transgressão dos servos do Deus de teu pai. E José chorou quando eles lhe falavam.
‘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 Depois vieram também seus irmãos, e prostraram-se diante dele, e disseram: Eis-nos aqui por teus servos.
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 José lhes disse: Não temais, porque porventura estou eu em lugar de Deus?
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 Vós bem intentastes mal contra mim, porém Deus o intentou para bem, para fazer como está neste dia, para conservar em vida a um povo grande:
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 Agora pois não temais: eu vos sustentarei a vós e a vossos meninos. Assim os consolou, e falou segundo o coração deles.
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 José pois habitou no Egito, ele e a casa de seu pai: e viveu José cento e dez anos,
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 E viu José os filhos de Ephraim, da terceira geração: também os filhos de Machir, filho de Manasseh, nasceram sobre os joelhos de José.
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 disse José a seus irmãos: Eu morro; mas Deus certamente vos visitará, e vos fará subir desta terra à terra que jurou a Abraão, a Isaac e a Jacob
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 José fez jurar os filhos de Israel, dizendo: Certamente vos visitará Deus, e fareis transportar os meus ossos daqui.
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 E morreu José da idade de cento e dez anos; e o embalsamaram, e o puseram num caixão no Egito.
So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
