Gênesis 50

1 Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.

4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’"

6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company. 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them, 13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. 14 Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him." 16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying, 17 ‘You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." 19 Joseph said to them, "Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years. 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees. 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, 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." 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Nā, ka hinga a Hōhepa ki runga ki te mata o tōna pāpā, ā, ka tangi i runga i a ia, ka kihi hoki i a ia. 2 Nā, ka whakahau a Hōhepa i āna tāngata, i ngā kairongoā, kia whakapakokotia tōna pāpā. Nā, whakapakokotia ana a Īharaira e ngā kairongoā. 3 Nā, ka tutuki ōna rā e whā tekau; ko ngā rā hoki ēnā e whakatutukitia ana mō te hunga e whakapakokotia ana. Ā, e whitu tekau ngā rā i uhungatia ai ia e ngā Īhipiana.

4 Ā, ka taka ngā rā e uhungatia ai ia, ka kōrero a Hōhepa ki te whare o Parao, ka mea, "Nā, ki te mea kua manakohia ahau e koutou, tēnā, kōrero atu ki ngā taringa o Parao, mea atu, 5 I whakaoati tōku pāpā i ahau, i mea, ‘Ka mate tēnei ahau; hei roto tāku tanumanga i keria e ahau mōku ki te whenua o Kanaana, hei reira ahau tanumia ai e koe.’ Nā, kia tukua ahau e koe āianei kia haere ki runga, ki te tanu i tōku pāpā, ka hoki mai ai."

6 Nā, ka mea a Parao, "Haere ki runga ki te tanu i tōu pāpā, kia rite ki tāna i whakaoati ai i a koe."

7 Nā, haere ana a Hōhepa ki runga ki te tanu i tōna pāpā, i haere tahi anō i a ia ngā pononga katoa a Parao, ngā kaumātua o tōna whare, me ngā kaumātua katoa o te whenua o Īhipa, 8 me te whare katoa anō hoki o Hōhepa, rātou ko ōna tuākana, me te whare anō hoki o tōna pāpā. Ko ā rātou tamariki anake, me ā rātou hipi, me ā rātou kau i mahue i a rātou i te whenua o Kohena. 9 I haere tahi anō i a ia ngā hāriata me ngā tāngata hōiho; he nui whakaharahara te tira.

10 Nā, ka tae rātou ki te patunga wīti a Atara, i tāwāhi o Horano, ā, he tino nui whakaharahara te tangihanga i tangi ai rātou ki reira; e whitu hoki ngā rā i uhungatia ai e ia tōna pāpā. 11 Ā, ka kite ngā tāngata whenua, ngā Kanaani, i te uhunga i te patunga wīti a Atara, ka mea rātou, "He uhunga nui tēnei nā ngā Īhipiana!" Nā reira i huaina ai te ingoa o reira ko Apere Mitiraima kei tāwāhi hoki o Horano.

12 Nā, rite tonu ki tāna i whakahau ai ki a rātou tā āna tama i mea ai ki a ia. 13 I kawea hoki ia e āna tama ki te whenua o Kanaana, ā, tanumia ana ki te ana i te pārae o Makapera, i hokona tahitia nei e Āperahama me te pārae i a Eperona Hiti, kia puritia hei tanumanga, kei te ritenga atu o Mamere. 14 Nā, hoki ana a Hōhepa ki Īhipa, rātou tahi ko ōna tuākana, ko ngā tāngata katoa anō hoki i haere tahi i a ia ki runga ki te tanu i tōna pāpā, i te mutunga o tāna tanu i tōna pāpā.

Ka Whakamārietia Ōna Tuākana e Hōhepa

15 Nā, i te kitenga o ngā tuākana o Hōhepa kua mate tō rātou pāpā, ka mea rātou, "Tērā pea e kino mai a Hōhepa ki a tātou, ā, ka utua mai e ia ā tātou kino katoa i meatia e tātou ki a ia." 16 Nā, ka tuku tangata rātou ki a Hōhepa, ā, ka mea, "I whakahau mai tōu pāpā i mua ake i tōna matenga, i mea mai, 17 ‘Kia pēnei tā koutou kupu ki a Hōhepa: Tēnā, whakarērea te hē o ōu tuākana, me tō rātou hara; he kino hoki tā rātou mahi ki a koe.’ Nā, tēnā whakarērea te hē o ngā pononga a te Atua o tōu pāpā."

Ā, ka tangi a Hōhepa i ā rātou kupu ki a ia.

18 Nā, ka haere ōna tuākana, ka tāpapa ki tōna aroaro; ka mea, "Tēnei mātou hei pononga māu."

19 Ā, ka mea a Hōhepa ki a rātou, "Kaua e wehi. He kaiwhakakapi oti ahau mō tō te Atua wāhi? 20 Ko koutou hoki, i hē ō koutou whakaaro ki ahau; he pai ia tō te Atua whakaaro, kia meatia ai tēnei ināianei, kia whakaorangia ai hoki ngā tāngata tokomaha. 21 Heoi, kaua e wehi; māku koutou e atawhai, koutou ko ā koutou tamariki." Ā, ka whakamārie ia i a rātou, ka whakamāmā hoki i ō rātou ngākau.

Te Matenga o Hōhepa

22 Nā, ka noho a Hōhepa ki Īhipa, rātou ko te whare o tōna pāpā; ā, kotahi rau kotahi tekau ngā tau i ora ai a Hōhepa. 23 Ā, i kite a Hōhepa i te tuatoru o ngā whakatupuranga o ngā tamariki a Ēparaima; i whakatupuria anō hoki ngā tamariki a Makiri, tama a Mānahi, ki runga ki ngā turi o Hōhepa.

24 Nā, ka mea a Hōhepa ki ōna tuākana, "Ka mate ahau; otiia ka āta tirohia koutou e te Atua, ā, ka kawea atu koutou e ia i tēnei whenua ki runga, ki te whenua i oati ai ia ki a Āperahama, ki a Īhaka, ki a Hākopa." 25 Nā, ka whakaoatitia ngā tama a Īharaira e Hōhepa, ka mea ia, "Ka tīkina mai koutou, ka āta tirohia e te Atua, ā, me kawe atu e koutou ōku iwi i konei ki runga."

26 Nā, ka mate a Hōhepa i te kotahi rau i te kotahi tekau o ōna tau; ā, ka whakapakokotia e rātou, ka whakatakotoria hoki ki te kāwhena i Īhipa.