1 José se lançou sobre o rosto de seu pai, chorou sobre ele e o beijou.2 Ordenou a seus servos, os médicos, que embalsamassem a seu pai; e os médicos embalsamaram a Israel.3 Cumpriram-se-lhe quarenta dias, pois assim se cumprem os dias da embalsamação; e os egípcios choraram-no setenta dias.4 Acabados os dias de o chorarem, disse José à casa de Faraó: Se agora achei graça aos vossos olhos, rogo-vos que faleis aos ouvidos de Faraó:5 Meu pai me fez jurar, dizendo: Eis que eu morro; no meu sepulcro que fiz abrir para mim na terra de Canaã, ali me sepultarás. Agora, pois, deixa-me subir e sepultar meu pai, depois voltarei.6 Respondeu Faraó: Vai sepultar teu pai como ele te fez jurar.7 José subiu para sepultar a seu pai; e com ele subiram todos os servos de Faraó, os anciãos da sua casa, e todos os anciãos da terra do Egito,8 e toda a casa de José, e seus irmãos e a casa de seu pai; somente deixaram na terra de Gósen os seus pequeninos, os seus rebanhos e os seus gados.9 Subiram com ele tanto carros como cavaleiros; e houve um concurso mui grande.10 Vieram à eira de Atade, que está além do Jordão, e ali prantearam com mui grande e forte pranto sete dias; e fez José uma lamentação por seu pai.11 Tendo os moradores da terra, os cananeus, visto o pranto na eira de Atade, disseram: Grande pranto é este dos egípcios; pelo que o lugar foi chamado Abelmizraim, que está além do Jordão.12 Fizeram-lhe seus filhos como lhes havia ordenado:13 levaram-no para a terra de Canaã, e o sepultaram na cova no campo de Macpela, em frente de Manré, a qual Abraão comprou com o campo para posse de lugar de sepultura a Efrom heteu.14 Depois de haverem feito isto, voltou José para o Egito, ele, seus irmãos e todos os que com ele subiram para sepultar seu pai.15 Vendo os irmãos de José que seu pai tinha morrido, disseram: Porventura José nos aborrecerá, e nos retribuirá todo o mal que lhe fizemos.16 Mandaram, então, esta mensagem a José: Teu pai ordenou antes da sua morte, dizendo:17 Assim direis a José: Perdoa a transgressão de teus irmãos e o seu pecado, porque te fizeram mal. Agora, pois, rogamos-te que perdoes a transgressão dos servos do Deus de teu pai. José chorou enquanto lhe falavam.18 Vieram também seus irmãos, prostraram-se diante dele e disseram: Nós somos teus servos.19 Respondeu-lhes José: Não temais; acaso estou eu em lugar de Deus?20 Vós, na verdade, intentastes o mal contra mim; porém Deus o intentou para o bem, para fazer, como é agora, que se conserve muita gente em vida.21 Agora, pois, não temais; eu vos sustentarei a vós e a vossos filhinhos. Assim os consolou, e lhes falou ao coração.22 José habitou no Egito, ele e a casa de seu pai; e viveu cento e dez anos.23 Viu José os filhos de Efraim até a terceira geração; também os filhos de Maquir, filho de Manassés, nasceram sobre os joelhos de José.24 Disse José a seus irmãos: Eu morro; porém Deus certamente vos visitará, e vos fará subir desta terra para a terra que jurou a Abraão, a Isaque e a Jacó.25 José fez os filhos de Israel jurar, dizendo: Certamente Deus vos visitará, e fareis transportar deste lugar os meus ossos.26 Assim morreu José, tendo cento e dez anos de idade; embalsamaram-no e puseram-no num caixão no Egito.

1 And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him.2 And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.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 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 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 And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.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 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 He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was it great company.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 And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And there- fore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.12 So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.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 And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.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 And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,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 And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants.19 And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?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 Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.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 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 And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, Carry my bones with you out of this place:25 And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.