Livre de la Genèse 50

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Alors Joseph se jeta sur le visage de son père, le couvrit de larmes et de baisers.	1 Joseph, realizing this, fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him.
2 Puis Joseph donna aux médecins qui étaient à son service l'ordre d'embaumer son père, et lesmédecins embaumèrent Israël.	2 And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics.
3 Cela dura 40 jours, car telle est la durée de l'embaumement. Les Egyptiens le pleurèrent 70 jours.	3 And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.
4 Quand fut écoulé le temps des pleurs, Joseph parla ainsi au palais de Pharaon: "Si vous avez del'amitié pour moi, veuillez rapporter ceci aux oreilles de Pharaon:	4 And when the time for mourning was fulfilled, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: “If I have found favor in your sight, speak to the ears of Pharaoh.
5 mon père m'a fait prêter ce serment: Je vais mourir, m'a-t-il dit, j'ai un tombeau que je me suiscreusé au pays de Canaan, c'est là que tu m'enterreras. Qu'on me laisse donc monter pour enterrer mon père, et jereviendrai."	5 For my father made me swear, saying: ‘See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return.”
6 Pharaon répondit: "Monte et enterre ton père, comme il te l'a fait jurer."	6 And Pharaoh said to him, “Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear.”
7 Joseph monta enterrer son père, et montèrent avec lui tous les officiers de Pharaon, les dignitairesde son palais et tous les dignitaires du pays d'Egypte,	7 So as he went up, all the elders of the house of Pharaoh went with him, along with every patriarch in the land of Egypt,
8 ainsi que toute la famille de Joseph, ses frères et la famille de son père. Ils ne laissèrent en terre deGoshèn que les invalides, le petit et le gros bétail.	8 and the house of Joseph with his brothers, except their little ones and flocks and also the herds, which they left behind in the land of Goshen.
9 Avec lui montèrent aussi des chars et des charriers: c'était un cortège très imposant.	9 Likewise, he had in his company chariots and horsemen. And it became a crowd without restraint.
10 Etant parvenus jusqu'à Gorèn-ha-Atad, --c'est au-delà du Jourdain,-- ils y firent une grande etsolennelle lamentation, et Joseph célébra pour son père un deuil de sept jours.	10 And they arrived at the threshing place of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan. There they spent seven full days celebrating the funeral rites with a great and vehement lamentation.
11 Les habitants du pays, les Cananéens, virent le deuil àGorèn-ha-Atad: "Voilà un grand deuil pourles Egyptiens"; et c'est pourquoi on a appelé ce lieu Abel-Miçrayim -- c'est au-delà du Jourdain.	11 And when the inhabitants of the land of Canaan had seen this, they said, “This is a great Lamentation for the Egyptians.” And for this reason, the name of that place was called, “The Lamentation of Egypt.”
12 Ses fils agirent à son égard comme il leur avait ordonné	12 And so, the sons of Jacob did just as he had instructed them.
13 et ils le transportèrent au pays de Canaan et l'ensevelirent dans la grotte du champ de Makpéla,qu'Abraham avait acquise d'Ephrôn le Hittite comme possession funéraire, en face de Mambré.	13 And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial, opposite Mamre.
14 Joseph revint alors en Egypte, ainsi que ses frères et tous ceux qui étaient montés avec lui pourenterrer son père.	14 And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brothers and all those of his company, having buried his father.
15 Voyant que leur père était mort, les frères de Joseph se dirent: "Si Joseph allait nous traiter enennemis et nous rendre tout le mal que nous lui avons fait?"	15 Now that he was dead, his brothers were afraid, and they said to one another: “Perhaps now he may remember the injury that he suffered and requite us for all the evil that we did to him.”
16 Aussi envoyèrent-ils dire à Joseph: "Avant de mourir, ton père a exprimé cette volonté:	16 So they sent a message to him, saying: “Your father instructed us before he died,
17 Vous parlerez ainsi à Joseph: Ah! pardonne à tes frères leur crime et leur péché, tout le mal qu'ilst'ont fait! Et maintenant, veuille pardonner le crime des serviteurs du Dieu de ton père!" Et Joseph pleura auxparoles qu'ils lui adressaient.	17 that we should say these words to you from him: ‘I beg you to forget the wickedness of your brothers, and the sin and malice that they practiced against you.’ Likewise, we petition you to release the servants of the God of your father from this iniquity.” Hearing this, Joseph wept.
18 Ses frères eux-mêmes vinrent et, se jetant à ses pieds, dirent: "Nous voici pour toi comme desesclaves!"	18 And his brothers went to him. And reverencing prostrate on the ground, they said, “We are your servants.”
19 Mais Joseph leur répondit: "Ne craignez point! Vais-je me substituer à Dieu?	19 And he answered them: “Do not be afraid. Are we able to resist the will of God?
20 Le mal que vous aviez dessein de me faire, le dessein de Dieu l'a tourné en bien, afin d'accomplirce qui se réalise aujourd'hui: sauver la vie à un peuple nombreux.	20 You devised evil against me. But God turned it into good, so that he might exalt me, just as you presently discern, and so that he might bring about the salvation of many peoples.
21 Maintenant, ne craignez point: c'est moi qui vous entretiendrai, ainsi que les personnes à votrecharge." Il les consola et leur parla affectueusement.	21 Do not be afraid. I will pasture you and your little ones.” And he consoled them, and he spoke mildly and leniently.
22 Ainsi Joseph et la famille de son père demeurèrent en Egypte, et Joseph vécut 110 ans.	22 And he lived in Egypt with all his father’s house; and he survived for one hundred and ten years. And he saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation. Likewise, the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born onto Joseph’s knees.
23 Joseph vit les arrière-petits-enfants qu'il eut d'Ephraïm, de même les enfants de Makir, fils deManassé, naquirent sur les genoux de Joseph.	23 After these things happened, he said to his brothers: “God will visit you after my death, and he will make you ascend from this land into the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
24 Enfin Joseph dit à ses frères: "Je vais mourir, mais Dieu vous visitera et vous fera remonter de cepays dans le pays qu'il a promis par serment à Abraham, Isaac et Jacob."	24 And when he had made them swear and had said, “God will visit you; carry my bones with you from this place,”
25 Et Joseph fit prêter ce serment aux fils d'Israël: "Quand Dieu vous visitera, vous emporterez d'icimes ossements."	25 he died, having completed one hundred and ten years of his life. And having been embalmed with aromatics, he was laid to rest in a coffin in Egypt.
26 Joseph mourut à l'âge de 110 ans, on l'embauma et on le mit dans un cercueil en Egypte.