1 约瑟伏在他父亲的脸上， 为他哀哭， 与他亲嘴。 2 约瑟吩咐臣仆中作医生的， 用香料包殓了他的父亲。他们就用香料包殓了以色列。 3 这事足足费了四十天， 因为用香料包殓尸体是需要这样长的时间。埃及人为他哀哭了七十天。 4 为他哀哭的日子过了， 约瑟就对法老家里的人说： "我若在你们面前得蒙喜悦， 请你们代我禀告法老说： 5 ‘我父亲曾经叫我起誓， 说： "看哪， 我快要死了； 你要把我埋葬在迦南地， 在我为自己所掘的坟墓里。"现在求你让我上去， 埋葬我的父亲， 之后我必定回来。’" 6 法老说： "你可以上去， 照着你父亲叫你起的誓， 把他埋葬。" 7 于是， 约瑟上去埋葬他的父亲。与他一同上去的， 有法老所有的臣仆， 法老家中的长老， 和埃及地所有的长老， 8 还有约瑟的全家， 他的兄弟们和他父亲的家人； 他们把孩子和牛羊留在歌珊地。 9 又有车辆和马兵与他一同上去， 成了一大队行列。 10 他们到了约旦河东岸的亚达禾场， 就在那里大大地哀悼痛哭。约瑟为他父亲举哀七天。 11 住在那地的迦南人看见了亚达禾场的哀悼， 就说： "这是埃及人一场非常伤痛的哀悼。"因此， 在约旦河东岸的那地方名叫亚伯．麦西。 12 雅各的众子就照着父亲嘱咐他们的去作， 13 把雅各运到迦南地， 葬在麦比拉田间的洞里。那地方在幔利的前面， 是亚伯拉罕向赫人以弗仑买下来作坟地的。 14 约瑟埋葬了他父亲以后， 就和他的众兄弟， 以及所有与他一同上去埋葬他父亲的人都回埃及去了。 15 约瑟的哥哥们看见父亲死了， 就说： "或者约瑟仍然会怀恨我们， 要报复我们从前向他所作的一切恶事。" 16 他们就打发人到约瑟那里， 说： "你父亲未死以前曾经嘱咐说： 17 ‘你们要对约瑟这样说： 从前你的哥哥们恶待你， 求你饶恕他们的过犯和罪恶。现在求你饶恕你父亲 神之仆人的过犯。’"约瑟听见这话就哭了。 18 他的哥哥们也亲自来了， 俯伏在他面前， 说： "看哪， 我们是你的奴仆。" 19 约瑟对他们说： "你们不要害怕， 我怎能代替 神呢？ 20 从前你们有意要害我， 但 神有美好的意思在其中， 为要成就今日的光景， 使许多人的性命得以保全。 21 现在你们不要害怕， 我必供养你们和你们的孩子。"于是约瑟用仁慈的话安慰他们。 22 约瑟和他父亲的家人， 都住在埃及。约瑟活了一百一十岁。 23 约瑟见到以法莲的第三代子孙； 玛拿西的儿子玛吉的众子， 也归在约瑟的膝下。 24 约瑟对他的兄弟们说： "我快要死了， 但 神必定眷顾你们， 领你们从这地上到他起誓应许给亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各之地去。" 25 约瑟又叫以色列的子孙起誓， 说： " 神必定眷顾你们， 那时你们要把我的骸骨从这里带上去应许之地。" 26 约瑟死了， 享寿一百一十岁。人用香料把他包殓了， 放在棺材里， 停在埃及。

1 And Joseph falleth on his father`s face, and weepeth over him, and kisseth him;2 and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;3 and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days.4 And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaketh unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, `If, I pray you, I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,5 My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;`6 and Pharaoh saith, `Go up and bury thy father, as he caused thee to swear.`7 And Joseph goeth up to bury his father, and go up with him do all the servants of Pharaoh, elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen;9 and there go up with him both chariot and horsemen, and the camp is very great.10 And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which [is] beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days,11 and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, see the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad, and say, `A grievous mourning [is] this to the Egyptians;` therefore hath [one] called its name `The mourning of the Egyptians,` which [is] beyond the Jordan.12 And his sons do to him so as he commanded them,13 and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre.14 And Joseph turneth back to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father.15 And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, `Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.`16 And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, `Thy father commanded before his death, saying,17 Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;` and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him.18 And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we [are] to thee for servants.`19 And Joseph saith unto them, `Fear not, for [am] I in the place of God?20 As for you, ye devised against me evil -- God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people;21 and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;` and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.22 And Joseph dwelleth in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph liveth a hundred and ten years,23 and Joseph looketh on Ephraim`s sons of the third [generation]; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.24 And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.`25 And Joseph causeth the sons of Israel to swear, saying, `God doth certainly inspect you, and ye have brought up my bones from this [place].`26 And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.