Genèse 50
1 Alors Joseph se jeta sur le visage de son père, et pleura sur lui, et le baisa.
Joseph leaned close to his father’s face and cried over him and kissed him.
2 Et Joseph commanda à ceux de ses serviteurs qui étaient médecins, d'embaumer son père; et les médecins embaumèrent Israël.
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 Et on employa quarante jours à l'embaumer: car c'était la coutume d'embaumer les corps [pendant quarante] jours; et les Egyptiens le pleurèrent soixante et dix jours.
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 Or le temps du deuil étant passé, Joseph parla à ceux de la maison de Pharaon, en disant: Je vous prie, si j'ai trouvé grâce envers vous, faites savoir ceci à Pharaon;
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 Que mon père m'a fait jurer, et m'a dit: Voici, je m'en vais mourir; tu m'enterreras dans mon sépulcre, que je me suis creusé au pays de Canaan; maintenant donc, je te prie, que j'y monte, et que j'y enterre mon père: puis je retournerai.
‘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 Et Pharaon répondit: Monte, et enterre ton père, comme il t'a fait jurer.
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 Alors Joseph monta pour enterrer son père, et les serviteurs de Pharaon, les Anciens de la maison de Pharaon, et tous les Anciens du pays d'Egypte montèrent avec lui.
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 Et toute la maison de Joseph, et ses frères, et la maison de son père [y montèrent aussi], laissant seulement leurs familles, et leurs troupeaux, et leurs bœufs dans la contrée de Goscen.
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 Il monta aussi avec lui des chariots, et des gens de cheval; tellement qu'il y eut un fort gros camp.
Men riding in chariots [MTY] and on horses also went along. It was a huge group.
10 Et lorsqu'ils furent venus à l'aire d'Atad, qui est au-delà du Jourdain, ils y firent de grandes et de douloureuses lamentations; et [Joseph] pleura son père pendant sept jours.
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 Et les Cananéens, habitants du pays, voyant ce deuil dans l'aire d'Atad, dirent: Ce deuil est grand pour les Egyptiens; c'est pourquoi cette aire, qui est au-delà du Jourdain, fut nommée Abel-Mitsraïm.
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 Les fils donc de [Jacob] firent à l'égard de son corps ce qu'il leur avait commandé.
Then Jacob’s sons did for him what their father had commanded.
13 Car ses fils le transportèrent au pays de Canaan, et l'ensevelirent dans la caverne du champ de Macpéla, vis-à-vis de Mamré, laquelle Abraham avait acquise d'Héphron Héthien avec le champ, pour le posséder [comme le lieu] de son sépulcre.
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 Et après que Joseph eut enseveli son père il retourna en Egypte avec ses frères, et tous ceux qui étaient montés avec lui pour enterrer son père.
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 Et les frères de Joseph voyant que leur père était mort, dirent [entr'eux]: Peut-être que Joseph nous aura en haine, et ne manquera pas de nous rendre tout le mal que nous lui avons fait.
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 C'est pourquoi ils envoyèrent dire à Joseph: Ton père avait commandé avant qu'il mourût, en disant:
So they sent someone to tell this to Joseph for them: “Before our father died, he told us this:
17 Vous parlerez ainsi à Joseph: Je te prie, pardonne maintenant l'iniquité de tes frères, et leur péché; car ils t'ont fait du mal. Maintenant donc, je te supplie, pardonne cette iniquité aux serviteurs du Dieu de ton père. Et Joseph pleura quand on lui parla.
‘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 Puis ses frères même y allèrent, et se prosternèrent devant lui, et lui dirent: Voici, nous sommes tes serviteurs.
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 Et Joseph leur dit: Ne craignez point; car suis-je en la place de Dieu?
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 [Ce que] vous aviez pensé en mal contre moi, Dieu l'a pensé en bien, pour faire selon ce que ce jour-ci [le montre], afin de faire vivre un grand peuple.
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 Ne craignez donc point maintenant; moi-même je vous entretiendrai, vous et vos familles; et il les consola, et leur parla selon leur cœur.
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 Joseph donc demeura en Egypte, lui et la maison de son père, et vécut cent et dix ans,
Joseph lived with his father’s family in Egypt until he was 110 years old.
23 Et Joseph vit des enfants d'Ephraim, jusqu'à la troisième génération. Makir aussi, fils de Manassé, eut des enfants qui furent élevés sur les genoux de Joseph.
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 Et Joseph dit à ses frères: Je m'en vais mourir, et Dieu ne manquera pas de vous visiter, et il vous fera remonter de ce pays au pays dont il a juré à Abraham, Isaac et à 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 Et Joseph fit jurer les enfants d'Israël, et leur dit: Dieu ne manquera pas de vous visiter, et alors vous transporterez mes os d'ici.
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 Puis Joseph mourut, âgé de cent et dix ans; et on l'embauma, et on le mit dans un cercueil en Egypte.
So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.
