1 José atirou-se sobre seu pai, chorou sobre ele e o beijou.
2 Em seguida deu ordens aos médicos, que estavam ao seu serviço, que embalsamassem seu pai Israel. E eles o embalsamaram.
3 Levaram quarenta dias completos, pois esse era o tempo para o embalsamamento. E os egípcios choraram sua morte setenta dias.
4 Passados os dias de luto, José disse à corte do faraó: "Se posso contar com a bondade de vocês, falem com o faraó em meu favor. Digam-lhe que
5 meu pai fez-me prestar-lhe o seguinte juramento: ‘Estou à beira da morte; sepulte-me no túmulo que preparei para mim na terra de Canaã’. Agora, pois, peçam-lhe que me permita partir e sepultar meu pai; logo depois voltarei".
6 Respondeu o faraó: "Vá e faça o sepultamento de seu pai como este o fez jurar".
7 Então José partiu para sepultar seu pai. Com ele foram todos os conselheiros do faraó, as autoridades da sua corte e todas as autoridades do Egito,
8 e, além deles, todos os da família de José, os seus irmãos e todos os da casa de seu pai. Somente as crianças, as ovelhas e os bois foram deixados em Gósen.
9 Carruagens e cavaleiros também o acompanharam. A comitiva era imensa.
10 Chegando à eira de Atade, perto do Jordão, lamentaram em alta voz, com grande amargura; e ali José guardou sete dias de pranto pela morte do seu pai.
11 Quando os cananeus que lá habitavam viram aquele pranto na eira de Atade, disseram: "Os egípcios estão celebrando uma cerimônia de luto solene". Por essa razão, aquele lugar, próximo ao Jordão, foi chamado Abel Mizraim.
12 Assim fizeram os filhos de Jacó o que este lhes havia ordenado:
13 Levaram-no à terra de Canaã e o sepultaram na caverna do campo de Macpela, perto de Manre, que Abraão havia comprado de Efrom, o hitita, para que lhe servisse de propriedade para sepultura, juntamente com o campo.
14 Depois de sepultar seu pai, José voltou ao Egito, com os seus irmãos e com todos os demais que o tinham acompanhado.
15 Vendo os irmãos de José que seu pai havia morrido, disseram: "E se José guardar rancor contra nós e resolver retribuir todo o mal que lhe causamos? "
16 Então mandaram um recado a José, dizendo: "Antes de morrer, teu pai nos ordenou
17 que te disséssemos o seguinte: ‘Peço-lhe que perdoe os erros e pecados de seus irmãos que o trataram com tanta maldade! ’ Agora, pois, perdoa os pecados dos servos do Deus do teu pai". Quando recebeu o recado, José chorou.
18 Depois vieram seus irmãos, prostraram-se diante dele e disseram: "Aqui estamos. Somos teus escravos! "
19 José, porém, lhes disse: "Não tenham medo. Estaria eu no lugar de Deus?
20 Vocês planejaram o mal contra mim, mas Deus o tornou em bem, para que hoje fosse preservada a vida de muitos.
21 Por isso, não tenham medo. Eu sustentarei vocês e seus filhos". E assim os tranqüilizou e lhes falou amavelmente.
22 José permaneceu no Egito, com toda a família de seu pai. Viveu cento e dez anos
23 e viu a terceira geração dos filhos de Efraim. Além disso, recebeu como seus os filhos de Maquir, filho de Manassés.
24 Antes de morrer José disse a seus irmãos: "Estou à beira da morte. Mas Deus certamente virá em auxílio de vocês e os tirará desta terra, levando-os para a terra que prometeu com juramento a Abraão, a Isaque e a Jacó".
25 E José fez que os filhos de Israel lhe prestassem um juramento, dizendo-lhes: "Quando Deus intervier em favor de vocês, levem os meus ossos daqui".
26 Morreu José com a idade de cento e dez anos. E, depois de embalsamado, foi colocado num sarcófago no Egito.
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.