Genesis 50

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 At this Joseph threw himself on his father's face, covering it with tears and kisses.	1 And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him.
2 Then Joseph ordered the doctors in his service to embalm his father. The doctors embalmed Israel,	2 And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
3 and it took them forty days, for embalming takes forty days to complete. The Egyptians mourned himfor seventy days.	3 And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mounted for him seventy days.
4 When the period of mourning for him was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's household, 'If you have anyaffection for me, see that this message reaches Pharaoh's ears,	4 And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:
5 "My father put me under oath, saying: I am about to die. In the tomb which I dug for myself in Canaan, that is where you are to bury me. So may I have leave to go up and bury my father, and then come back?" '	5 For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.
6 Pharaoh replied, 'Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.'	6 And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
7 Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all Pharaoh's officials, the dignitaries of hispalace and al the dignitaries of Egypt,	7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 as wel as all Joseph's family, his brothers and his father's family. The only people they left behind inGoshen were those unfit to travel, and their flocks and cattle.	8 And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.
9 Chariots and horsemen went up with him too; it was a very large retinue.	9 He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was it great company.
10 On arriving at Goren-ha-Atad, which is across the Jordan, they there held a long and solemnlamentation, and Joseph observed seven days' mourning for his father.	10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.
11 When the Canaanites, the local inhabitants, witnessed the mourning at Goren-ha-Atad, they said,'This is a solemn act of mourning by the Egyptians,' which is why the place was given the name Abel-Mizraim-itis across the Jordan.	11 And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.
12 His sons did what he had ordered them to do for him.	12 So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.
13 His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre,which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.	13 And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the held for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite over against Mambre.
14 Then Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had come up with him to bury hisfather.	14 And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.
15 Seeing that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers said, 'What if Joseph intends to treat us asenemies and pay us back for al the wrong we did him?'	15 Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another : Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.
16 So they sent this message to Joseph: 'Before your father died, he gave us this order:	16 And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
17 "You are to say to Joseph: Now please forgive the crime and faults of your brothers and al thewrong they did you." So now please forgive the crime of the servants of your father's God.' Joseph wept at themessage they sent to him.	17 That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practiced against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.
18 Then his brothers went to him themselves and, throwing themselves at his feet, said, 'Take us asyour slaves!'	18 And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants.
19 But Joseph replied, 'Do not be afraid; is it for me to put myself in God's place?	19 And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?
20 The evil you planned to do me has by God's design been turned to good, to bring about the presentresult: the survival of a numerous people.	20 You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.
21 So there is no need to be afraid; I shall provide for you and your dependants.' In this way hereassured them by speaking affectionately to them.	21 Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.
22 So Joseph stayed in Egypt with his father's family; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.	22 And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Ma-nasses were born on Joseph's knees.
23 Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim's line, as also the children of Machir son of Manasseh,who were born on Joseph's lap.	23 After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
24 At length Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die; but God wil be sure to remember you kindlyand take you out of this country to the country which he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'	24 And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, Carry my bones with you out of this place:
25 And Joseph put Israel's sons on oath, saying, 'When God remembers you with kindness, be sure totake my bones away from here.'	25 And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.
26 Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten; he was embalmed and laid in a coffin in Egypt.