創世記 第 50 章

And Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.

And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father, and the embalmers embalmed Israel.

And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of burial reckoned; and Egypt mourned him seventy days.

And when the days of mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to the magnates of Pharaoh, saying, If I have found favour before you, speak concerning me in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

My father made me swear, saying, In the tomb which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me. So now let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.

And Pharaoh said, Go up, bury your father, just as he made you swear.

And Joseph went up to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt;

and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and all his father's house; and they left behind the kindred and the sheep and the oxen in the land of Gesem.

And chariots and horsemen also went up with him, and the company was exceedingly great.

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented him with a great and exceedingly strong lamentation; and he made mourning for his father seven days.

And the inhabitants of the land of Canaan saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad and said, This is a great mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore he called its name Mourning of Egypt, which is beyond the Jordan.

And his sons did for him thus, and they buried him there.

And his sons carried him up into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave, the cave which Abraham bought as a burial possession from Ephron the Hittite, opposite Mambre.

And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and those who had gone up with him to bury his father.

And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father had died, they said, Perhaps Joseph will bear a grudge against us and repay us in full for all the evils that we displayed toward him.

And they came to Joseph, saying, Your father adjured us before he died, saying,

Thus you shall say to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, because they displayed evil things to you. And now accept the injustice of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept while they were speaking to him.

And they came to him and said, Here we are, your household servants.

And Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for I belong to God.

You planned evil against me, but God planned good concerning me, so that it might come about as it is today, that many people might be sustained.

And he said to them, Do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your households. And he comforted them and spoke to their heart.

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brothers and all his father's household. And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation, and the sons of Machir the son of Manasse were born on Joseph's thighs.

And Joseph said to his brothers, saying, I am dying, but God will surely visit you and will bring you up out of this land into the land which God swore to our fathers, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, At the visitation with which God will visit you, you shall also carry up my bones from here with you.

And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they buried him and placed him in the coffin in Egypt.