Genesis 50
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Genèse 50
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| And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him. | Joseph se jeta sur le visage de son père, pleura sur lui, et le baisa. |
| 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. | Il ordonna aux médecins à son service d`embaumer son père, et les médecins embaumèrent Israël. |
| And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days. | Quarante jours s`écoulèrent ainsi, et furent employés à l`embaumer. Et les Égyptiens le pleurèrent soixante-dix jours. |
| 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: | Quand les jours du deuil furent passés, Joseph s`adressa aux gens de la maison de Pharaon, et leur dit: Si j`ai trouvé grâce à vos yeux, rapportez, je vous prie, à Pharaon ce que je vous dis. |
| 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. | Mon père m`a fait jurer, en disant: Voici, je vais mourir! Tu m`enterreras dans le sépulcre que je me suis acheté au pays de Canaan. Je voudrais donc y monter, pour enterrer mon père; et je reviendrai. |
| And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him. | Pharaon répondit: Monte, et enterre ton père, comme il te l`a fait jurer. |
| 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, | Joseph monta, pour enterrer son père. Avec lui montèrent tous les serviteurs de Pharaon, anciens de sa maison, tous les anciens du pays d`Égypte, |
| 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. | toute la maison de Joseph, ses frères, et la maison de son père: on ne laissa dans le pays de Gosen que les enfants, les brebis et les boeufs. |
| And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. | Il y avait encore avec Joseph des chars et des cavaliers, en sorte que le cortège était très nombreux. |
| 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. | Arrivés à l`aire d`Athad, qui est au delà du Jourdain, ils firent entendre de grandes et profondes lamentations; et Joseph fit en l`honneur de son père un deuil de sept jours. |
| 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. | Les habitants du pays, les Cananéens, furent témoins de ce deuil dans l`aire d`Athad, et ils dirent: Voilà un grand deuil parmi les Égyptiens! C`est pourquoi l`on a donné le nom d`Abel Mitsraïm à cette aire qui est au delà du Jourdain. |
| So his sons did as he had given them orders to do: | C`est ainsi que les fils de Jacob exécutèrent les ordres de leur père. |
| 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. | Ils le transportèrent au pays de Canaan, et l`enterrèrent dans la caverne du champ de Macpéla, qu`Abraham avait achetée d`Éphron, le Héthien, comme propriété sépulcrale, et qui est vis-à-vis de Mamré. |
| And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt. | Joseph, après avoir enterré son père, retourna en Égypte, avec ses frères et tous ceux qui étaient montés avec lui pour enterrer son père. |
| 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. | Quand les frères de Joseph virent que leur père était mort, ils dirent: Si Joseph nous prenait en haine, et nous rendait tout le mal que nous lui avons fait! |
| So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying, | Et ils firent dire à Joseph: Ton père a donné cet ordre avant de mourir: |
| 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. | Vous parlerez ainsi à Joseph: Oh! pardonne le crime de tes frères et leur péché, car ils t`ont fait du mal! Pardonne maintenant le péché des serviteurs du Dieu de ton père! Joseph pleura, en entendant ces paroles. |
| Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants. | Ses frères vinrent eux-mêmes se prosterner devant lui, et ils dirent: Nous sommes tes serviteurs. |
| And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God? | Joseph leur dit: Soyez sans crainte; car suis-je à la place de Dieu? |
| 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. | Vous aviez médité de me faire du mal: Dieu l`a changé en bien, pour accomplir ce qui arrive aujourd`hui, pour sauver la vie à un peuple nombreux. |
| So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words. | Soyez donc sans crainte; je vous entretiendrai, vous et vos enfants. Et il les consola, en parlant à leur coeur. |
| 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. | Joseph demeura en Égypte, lui et la maison de son père. Il vécut cent dix ans. |
| 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. | Joseph vit les fils d`Éphraïm jusqu`à la troisième génération; et les fils de Makir, fils de Manassé, naquirent sur ses genoux. |
| 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. | Joseph dit à ses frères: Je vais mourir! Mais Dieu vous visitera, et il vous fera remonter de ce pays-ci dans le pays qu`il a juré de donner à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob. |
| 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. | Joseph fit jurer les fils d`Israël, en disant: Dieu vous visitera; et vous ferez remonter mes os loin d`ici. |
| 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. | Joseph mourut, âgé de cent dix ans. On l`embauma, et on le mit dans un cercueil en Égypte. |
