1 Siis Joosep langes oma isa palge vastu, nuttis tema kohal ja suudles teda.
2 Ja Joosep käskis oma teenistuses olevaid arste tema isa palsameerida; ja arstid palsameerisid Iisraeli.
3 Selleks kulus nelikümmend päeva, sest nii palju päevi kulub palsameerimiseks; ja egiptlased nutsid teda seitsekümmend päeva.
4 Kui tema nutupäevad olid möödunud, siis Joosep rääkis vaarao hoovkonnaga, öeldes: „Kui ma nüüd teie silmis olen armu leidnud, siis rääkige vaarao kõrva ees ja öelge:
5 Minu isa laskis mind vanduda, öeldes: vaata, ma suren. Mata mind mu hauda, mille ma enesele olen kaevanud Kaananimaal. Ma tahaksin nüüd minna, oma isa matta ja siis tagasi tulla!"
6 Ja vaarao ütles: „Mine ja mata oma isa, nõnda nagu ta sind on lasknud vanduda!"
7 Ja Joosep läks oma isa matma; ja temaga ühes läksid kõik vaarao sulased, tema hoovkonna vanemad ja kõik Egiptusemaa vanemad,
8 ja kogu Joosepi pere ja tema vennad ja ta isa pere; ainult oma väetid lapsed ja pudulojused ja veised jätsid nad Gooseni maakonda.
9 Ja temaga ühes läksid niihästi vankrid kui ratsanikud, ja see oli väga suur killavoor.
10 Kui nad jõudsid Atadi rehealuse juurde, mis on teispool Jordanit, siis nad panid seal toime väga suure ja mõjuva leinakaebuse, ja ta pidas oma isa peiesid seitse päeva.
11 Kui maa elanikud, kaananlased, nägid neid peiesid Atadi rehealuse juures, siis nad ütlesid: „Need on egiptlastel suured peied!" Seepärast pandi sellele paigale nimeks Aabel-Mitsraim; see on teispool Jordanit.
12 Ja ta pojad tegid temaga nõnda, nagu ta neid oli käskinud:
13 ta pojad viisid tema Kaananimaale ja matsid ta Makpela välja koopasse Mamre kohal, mille Aabraham ühes väljaga oli ostnud pärandhauaks hetiit Efronilt.
14 Ja Joosep läks tagasi Egiptusesse, tema ja ta vennad ja kõik, kes ühes temaga olid läinud ta isa matma, pärast seda kui ta oma isa oli matnud.
15 Kui Joosepi vennad nägid, et nende isa oli surnud, siis nad ütlesid: „Kui Joosep meid nüüd vihkab ja tõesti tasub meile kätte kõige kurja eest, mis me temale oleme teinud?"
16 Ja nad käskisid Joosepile öelda: „Su isa andis käsu, enne kui ta suri, ja ütles:
17 öelge Joosepile nõnda: anna ometi andeks oma vendade üleastumine ja patt, et nad sulle on kurja teinud! Seepärast anna siis nüüd andeks oma isa Jumala sulaste üleastumine!" Ja Joosep nuttis, kui temale seda räägiti.
18 Siis tulid ka Joosepi vennad ise, heitsid maha ta ette ja ütlesid: „Vaata, me jääme sulle orjadeks!"
19 Aga Joosep vastas neile: „Ärge kartke! Kas mina olen Jumala asemik?
20 Te mõtlesite küll mu vastu kurja, aga Jumal pööras selle heaks, et teha, mis tänapäeval ongi tehtud: hoida palju rahvast elus!
21 Ja nüüd ärge kartke, mina toidan teid ja teie väeteid lapsi!" Ja ta trööstis ning rahustas neid.
22 Ja Joosep jäi Egiptusesse, tema ja ta isa pere. Ja Joosep elas saja kümne aastaseks.
23 Ja Joosep nägi Efraimi lapsi kolm põlve; ka Manasse pojast Maakirist sündis lapsi Joosepi põlvede peale.
24 Ja Joosep ütles oma vendadele: „Mina suren, aga Jumal hoolitseb kindlasti teie eest ja viib teid siit maalt sellele maale, mille Ta vandega on tõotanud anda Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile!"
25 Ja Joosep vannutas Iisraeli poegi, öeldes: „Kui Jumal tõesti hoolitseb teie eest, siis viige ka minu luud siit ära!"
26 Ja Joosep suri, sada kümme aastat vana, ja ta palsameeriti ja pandi kirstu Egiptuses.
1 And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.
2 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 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 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 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 And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.
7 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 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 And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.
10 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 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 So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:
13 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 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 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 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,
17 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 Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.
19 And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?
20 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.