創世記 50
1 若瑟伏在他父親的臉上，痛哭親吻，
Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
2 然後吩咐照料自己的醫生，用香料包殮他父親；醫生便用香料包殮了以色列。
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 為他共費了四十天，因為用香料包殮屍體原需要這些天數。埃及人為他舉哀七十天。
Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
4 舉哀期一過，若瑟就向法郎的朝廷說：「我如在你們眼中得寵，請你們代我轉告法郎說：
When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favour in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 我父親曾叫我起誓，對我說：看，我快要死了! 我在客納罕地，曾為自己鑿了一個墳墓，你應把我葬在那裏。現在請讓我上去埋葬我父親，然後回來。」
‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
6 法郎回覆說：「你就照你父親令你起的誓，上去埋葬他罷! 」
Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
7 於是若瑟上去埋葬他父親，與他一同去的，有法郎的一切臣僕，朝廷的顯要，和埃及國所有的紳士；
Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 還有若瑟全家和他的兄弟們，並他父親的家屬，只留下家中幼小，羊群和家畜在哥笙地。
all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9 與他同去的，尚有車輛和騎兵：實在是一大隊行列。
Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company.
10 當他們到了約但河對岸的阿塔得打禾場，就在那裏舉行了極備哀榮的隆重喪禮；若瑟又為自己的父親舉哀了七天。
They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
11 住在當地的客納罕人見了阿塔得打禾場上的喪禮，就說：「這為埃及人實是一場極備哀榮的喪禮。」因而給那在約但對岸的地方，起名叫阿貝耳米茲辣殷。
When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
12 雅各伯的兒子們完全照他們的父親所吩咐的給他辦了：
His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
13 將他運到客納罕地，葬在面對瑪默勒的瑪革培拉田裏的山洞內；這塊田是亞巴郎由赫特人厄斐龍買了來作為私有墳地。
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, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
14 若瑟葬了父親以後，遂和他兄弟們，以及所有與他上來埋葬他父親的人們，返回了埃及。
Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 若瑟的兄弟們見父親已死，就說：「或者若瑟仍懷恨我們，要報復我們對他所行的一切惡事。」
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
16 因此便派人去見若瑟說：「你父親未死以前曾囑咐說：
They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,
17 你們要這樣對若瑟說：請你務必饒恕你兄弟們的過失和罪惡，因為他們實在虐待了你。現在，求你饒恕你父親的天主的僕人們的過失罷! 」若瑟聽他們對他說出這樣的話，就哭了起來。
‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18 後來他的兄弟們還親自來，俯伏在他面前說：「看，我們都是你的奴隸! 」
His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19 若瑟對他們說：「不要害怕! 我豈能替代天主﹖
Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20 你們原有意對我作的惡事，天主卻有意使之變成好事，造成了今日的結果：挽救了許多人民的性命。
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
21 所以，你們不必害怕，有我維持你們和你們的孩子。」他這樣撫慰他們，使他們安心。
Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
22 若瑟和他父親的家屬，以後就住在埃及。若瑟活到了一百一十歲，
Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
23 見到了厄弗辣因的第三代子孫；默納協的兒子瑪基爾的兒子們，也都生在若瑟的膝下。
Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
24 若瑟對自己的兄弟們說：「我快要死了；但天主要看顧你們，領你們由這地回到他誓許給亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯的地方去。」
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
25 若瑟又叫以色列的兒子們起誓說「當天主看顧你們時，你們應將我的骨骸由這裏帶回去。」
Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
26 若瑟死了，享壽一百一十歲。人遂用香料包殮了他，放在棺墎內，安厝在埃及。
So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
