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創世記-Genesis 第 50 章

50:1	約瑟伏在他父親的麵上，為他哀哭，與他親嘴。 Then Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
50:2	約瑟吩咐伺候他的醫生，用香料薰殮他父親，醫生就用香料薰殮了以色列。 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
50:3	用香料薰殮的時間是四十天；那四十天滿了，埃及人為他哀哭了七十天。 And forty days were spent for this, for this is the time to be spent for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
50:4	為他哀哭的日子過了，約瑟對法老家中的人說，我若在你們眼前蒙恩，請你們報告法老說， And when the days of weeping for him had passed, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
50:5	我父親快要死的時候，叫我起誓說，你要將我葬在迦南地，在我為自己所掘的墳墓裏。現在求你讓我上去葬我父親，以後我必回來。 My father made me swear, saying, Now I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.
50:6	法老說，你可以上去，照著你父親叫你起的誓，將他葬埋。 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.
50:7	於是約瑟上去葬他父親；與他一同上去的，有法老的眾臣仆，和法老家中的長老，並埃及地的眾長老， And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
50:8	還有約瑟的全家，和他的弟兄們，並他父親的眷屬；隻有他們的婦人孩子，和羊群牛群，都留在歌珊地。 And all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.
50:9	又有車輛馬兵，和他一同上去；那一幫人甚多， And chariots also went up with him, as well as horsemen; and it was a very great company.
50:10	他們到了約但河外亞達的禾場，就在那裏大大的號啕痛哭；約瑟為他父親哀哭了七天。 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.
50:11	住在那地的迦南人，看見亞達禾場上的哀悼，就說，這是埃及人一場大的哀悼。因此那地方名叫亞伯麥西，是在約但河外。 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
50:12	雅各的兒子們，就遵著他們父親所吩咐的，給他辦了， And thus his sons did to him as he commanded them;
50:13	把他搬到迦南地，葬在幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞裏；那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗侖買來為業，作墳地的。 And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought with the field for a possession of a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
50:14	約瑟葬了他父親以後，就和眾弟兄，並一切同他上去葬他父親的人，都回埃及去了。 And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
50:15	約瑟的哥哥們見父親死了，就說，或者約瑟會懷恨我們，照著我們從前待他一切的惡，足足的報複我們。 And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the evil which we did to him?
50:16	他們就打發人去見約瑟，說，你父親未死以前吩咐說， And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, Your father charged before he died, saying,
50:17	你們要對約瑟這樣說：從前你哥哥們惡待你，求你饒恕他們的過犯和罪。如今求你饒恕你父親的神之仆人的過犯。他們對約瑟說這話，約瑟就哭了。 Thus shall you say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong. So now please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
50:18	他的哥哥們又來俯伏在他麵前，說，我們是你的仆人。 And his brothers also went and fell down before him and said, We are here as your servants.
50:19	約瑟對他們說，不要害怕，我豈能代替神呢？ And Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
50:20	從前你們的意思是要害我，但神的意思原是好的，要使許多人存活，成就今日的光景。 Even though you intended evil against me, God intended it for good, to do as it is this day, to preserve alive a numerous people.
50:21	所以現在你們不要害怕，我必養活你們，和你們的婦人孩子。於是約瑟用親切的話安慰他們。 Now therefore do not be afraid; I will sustain you and your little ones. And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
50:22	約瑟和他父親的眷屬，都住在埃及；約瑟活了一百一十歲。 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's household; and Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
50:23	約瑟得見以法蓮第三代的子孫。瑪拿西之子瑪吉的眾子，也養在約瑟的膝上。 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children of Machir the son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph's knees.
50:24	約瑟對他弟兄們說，我快要死了，但神必眷顧你們，領你們出這地，上到祂起誓要賜給亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各之地。 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
50:25	約瑟叫以色列的子孫起誓，說，神必定看顧你們；你們要把我的骸骨從這裏帶上去。 And Joseph made the children of Israel swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall bring my bones up from here.
50:26	約瑟死了，正一百一十歲。人用香料將他薰殮了，把他放在棺材裏，停在埃及。 And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

創世記-Genesis 第 50 章