Genesis 50
1 Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
Ce que voyant Joseph, il se jeta sur le visage de son père, pleurant et l’embrassant.
2 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.
Et il ordonna aux médecins qui étaient à son service d’embaumer son père.
3 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.
Pendant qu’ils exécutaient cet ordre, quarante jours se passèrent; car telle était la coutume pour les corps embaumés; et l’Égypte pleura Jacob pendant soixante-dix jours.
4 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:
Or le temps du deuil accompli, Joseph dit à la famille de Pharaon: Si j’ai trouvé grâce devant vous, faites entendre aux oreilles de Pharaon,
5 ‘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.’”
Que mon père m’a adjuré, disant: Voici que je meurs; vous m’ensevelirez dans le sépulcre que je me suis creusé dans la terre de Chanaan. J’y monterai donc, et j’ensevelirai mon père, et je reviendrai.
6 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.’”
Et Pharaon lui dit: Montes-y et ensevelis ton père, comme tu as été adjuré.
7 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.
Joseph y montant, avec lui allèrent tous les anciens de la maison de Pharaon, tous les anciens de la terre d’Égypte,
8 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.
La maison de Joseph, avec ses frères, excepté les petits enfants, les troupeaux de menu et de gros bétail, qu’ils laissèrent dans la terre de Gessen.
9 Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
Il eut aussi à sa suite des chars et des esclaves; et il se forma une troupe considérable.
10 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.
Ils vinrent à l’aire d’Atad, qui est située au-delà du Jourdain, où ils passèrent sept jours pleins, célébrant les funérailles par un deuil grand et solennel.
11 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].’
Ce qu’ayant vu les habitants de la terre de Chanaan, ils dirent: Voilà un grand deuil parmi les Égyptiens. Et c’est pourquoi on appela ce lieu du nom de Deuil de l’Égypte.
12 Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
Les fils de Jacob firent donc comme il leur avait commandé;
13 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.
Et le portant dans la terre de Chanaan, ils l’ensevelirent dans la caverne double, située vis-à-vis de Mambré, et qu’Abraham avait achetée d’Ephron l’Héthéen, avec le champ, pour y posséder un sépulcre.
14 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.
Et Joseph retourna en Égypte avec ses frères et toute sa suite, son père ayant été enseveli.
15 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?”
Jacob mort, les frères de Joseph craignant et se disant mutuellement: Pourvu qu’il ne se souvienne pas de l’injure qu’il a soufferte, et qu’il ne nous rende point tout le mal que nous lui avons fait,
16 So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
Ils envoyèrent vers lui, disant: Votre père nous a commandé, avant qu’il mourût,
17 ‘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.
Que nous vous disions en ses propres paroles: Je te conjure d’oublier le crime de tes frères, leur péché et la malice qu’ils ont exercée contre toi: nous aussi nous vous prions de pardonner cette iniquité aux serviteurs du Dieu de votre père. Ces paroles entendues, Joseph pleura.
18 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.”
Et ses frères vinrent à lui, et inclinés, se prosternant en terre, ils dirent: Nous sommes vos serviteurs.
19 But Joseph replied to them, “Do not be afraid! [God is the one who punishes people]; (am I God?/I am not God!) [RHQ]
Joseph leur répondit: Ne craignez point: Est-ce que nous pouvons résister à la volonté de Dieu?
20 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!
Vous, vous avez formé un mauvais dessein contre moi, mais Dieu l’a changé en bien, pour m’élever, comme vous voyez à présent, et pour sauver beaucoup de peuples.
21 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.
Ne craignez point: c’est moi qui vous nourrirai, vous et vos petits enfants; et il les consola, et il leur parla avec affection et douceur.
22 Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
Il habita donc en Égypte avec toute la maison de son père, et il vécut cent dix ans. Et il vit les enfants d’Ephraïm jusqu’à la troisième génération. Les enfants même de Machir fils de Manassé naquirent sur les genoux de Joseph.
23 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].
Ces choses s’étant passées, Joseph dit à ses frères: Après ma mort Dieu vous visitera et vous fera monter de cette terre à celle qu’il a jurée à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob.
24 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.”
Et lorsqu’il les eut adjurés, et leur eut dit: Dieu vous visitera; emportez mes os avec vous de ce lieu-ci,
25 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.
Il mourut, cent dix ans de sa vie ayant été accomplis. Et ayant été embaumé, il fut mis dans un cercueil en Égypte.
26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
