1 Toe val Josef op sy vader se aangesig, en hy het oor hom geween en hom gesoen.

2 En Josef het aan sy dienaars, die geneeshere, bevel gegee om sy vader te balsem. En die geneeshere het Israel gebalsem.

3 En veertig dae het daarvoor verbygegaan; want so lank duur die dae van balseming. En die Egiptenaars het hom sewentig dae lank beween.

4 En toe die dae van geween oor hom verby was, het Josef met die huis van Farao gespreek en gesê: As ek dan guns in julle oë gevind het, spreek tog dit voor die ore van Farao:

5 My vader het my laat sweer en gesê: Kyk, ek gaan sterwe; in my graf wat ek vir my in die land Kana„n uitgekap het, daar moet jy my begrawe. Laat my dan nou tog optrek en my vader begrawe. Daarna sal ek terugkom.

6 En Farao sê: Trek op en begrawe jou vader soos hy jou laat sweer het.

7 Toe het Josef opgetrek om sy vader te begrawe, en al die dienaars van Farao, die oudstes van sy huis, het saam met hom opgetrek, en al die oudstes van Egipteland;

8 ook die hele huis van Josef en sy broers en die huis van sy vader. Net hulle kinders en hulle kleinvee en hulle beeste het hulle in die land Gosen laat agterbly.

9 En saam met hom het opgetrek strydwaens sowel as ruiters, sodat dit 'n baie groot trek was.

10 En toe hulle by die Steekdoring-dorsvloer kom, wat oos van die Jordaan lê, het hulle daar 'n groot en baie swaar rouklag gehou. En hy het oor sy vader rou laat bedrywe sewe dae lank.

11 Toe die inwoners van die land, die Kanaäniete, die roubedryf by die Steekdoring-dorsvloer sien, sê hulle: Dit is 'n swaar rou vir die Egiptenaars. Daarom het hulle dit Abel-Misraim genoem, wat oos van die Jordaan lê.

12 En sy seuns het met hom gedoen net soos hy hulle beveel het:

13 sy seuns het hom weggebring na die land Kanaän en hom begrawe in die spelonk van die stuk grond van Magp,la, die stuk grond wat Abraham as eiendomsgraf gekoop het van Efron, die Hetiet, oos van Mamre.

14 Daarna het Josef na Egipte teruggegaan, hy en sy broers en almal wat saam met hom opgetrek het om sy vader te begrawe, nadat hy sy vader begrawe het.

15 Toe die broers van Josef sien dat hulle vader dood was, het hulle gesê: Sê nou Josef gaan ons as vyande behandel en hy gaan ons werklik vergelde al die kwaad wat ons hom aangedoen het!

16 Daarom het hulle hierdie boodskap na Josef gestuur: U vader het voor sy dood bevel gegee met hierdie woorde:

17 So moet julle vir Josef sê: Ag, vergewe tog die oortreding van jou broers en hulle sonde, want hulle het jou kwaad aangedoen. Maar nou, vergewe tog die oortreding van ons wat die God van u vader dien. En Josef het geween toe hulle met hom spreek.

18 En sy broers het ook self gegaan en voor hom neergeval en gesê: Kyk, ons is u slawe.

19 Maar Josef het hulle geantwoord: Moenie bevrees wees nie; want is ek in die plek van God?

20 Want julle het wel kwaad teen my bedink, maar God het dit ten goede gedink om te doen soos dit vandag is, om 'n groot volk in die lewe te hou.

21 Wees dan nou nie bevrees nie: ,k sal julle en julle kinders onderhou. So het hy hulle dan getroos en na hulle hart gespreek.

22 En Josef het in Egipte gewoon, hy en die huis van sy vader. En Josef het honderd en tien jaar gelewe.

23 En Josef het van Efraim kinders gesien van die derde geslag. Ook die kinders van Magir, die seun van Manasse, is op Josef se knieë gebore.

24 En Josef het aan sy broers gesê: Ek gaan sterwe, maar God sal gewis op julle ag gee en julle uit hierdie land laat optrek na die land wat Hy aan Abraham, Isak en Jakob met 'n eed beloof het.

25 En Josef het die seuns van Israel laat sweer en gesê: As God sekerlik op julle ag sal gee -- bring dan my gebeente hiervandaan op.

26 En Josef het gesterwe, honderd en tien jaar oud. En hulle het hom gebalsem, en hy is in 'n kis gesit in Egipte.

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.