Liber Genesis

Genesis, chapter 50, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 50 Vulgate

   1 Ioseph ruit super faciem patris flens et deosculans eum.
   2 Praecepitque servis suis medicis, ut aromatibus condirent patrem.
   3 Quibus iussa explentibus, transierunt quadraginta dies; iste quippe mos erat cadaverum conditorum. Flevitque eum Aegyptus septuaginta diebus.
   4 Et, expleto planctus tempore, locutus est Ioseph ad familiam pharaonis: "Si inveni gratiam in conspectu vestro, loquimini in auribus pharaonis,
   5 eo quod pater meus adiuraverit me dicens: "En morior; in sepulcro meo, quod fodi mihi in terra Chanaan, sepelies me"; ascendam nunc et sepeliam patrem meum ac revertar"
   6 Dixitque ei pharao: "Ascende et sepeli patrem tuum, sicut adiuratus es"
   7 Quo ascendente, ierunt cum eo omnes servi pharaonis, senes domus eius cunctique maiores natu terrae Aegypti,
   8 domus Ioseph cum fratribus suis, absque parvulis et gregibus atque armentis, quae dereliquerant in terra Gessen.
   9 Habuit quoque in comitatu currus et equites; et facta est turba non modica.
   10 Veneruntque ad Gorenatad (id est Aream rhamni), quae sita est trans Iordanem; ubi celebrantes exsequias planctu magno atque vehementi impleverunt septem dies.
   11 Quod cum vidissent habitatores terrae Chanaan, dixerunt: "Planctus magnus est iste Aegyptiis" et idcirco vocatum est nomen loci illius Abelmesraim (id est Planctus Aegypti).
   12 Fecerunt ergo filii Iacob, sicut praeceperat eis;
   13 et portantes eum in terram Chanaan sepelierunt eum in spelunca Machpela, quam emerat Abraham cum agro in possessionem sepulcri ab Ephron Hetthaeo contra faciem Mambre.
   14 Reversusque est Ioseph in Aegyptum cum fratribus suis et omni comitatu, sepulto patre.
   15 Quo mortuo, timentes fratres eius et mutuo colloquentes: "Ne forte memor sit iniuriae, quam passus est, et reddat nobis omne malum, quod fecimus"
   16 mandaverunt ei dicentes: "Pater tuus praecepit nobis, antequam moreretur,
   17 ut haec tibi verbis illius diceremus: "Obsecro, ut obliviscaris sceleris fratrum tuorum et peccati atque malitiae, quam exercuerunt in te". Nos quoque oramus, ut servis Dei patris tui dimittas iniquitatem hanc" Quibus auditis, flevit Ioseph.
   18 Veneruntque ad eum fratres sui et proni coram eo dixerunt: "Servi tui sumus"
   19 Quibus ille respondit: "Nolite timere. Num Dei possumus resistere voluntati?
   20 Vos cogitastis de me malum; sed Deus vertit illud in bonum, ut exaltaret me, sicut in praesentiarum cernitis, et salvos faceret multos populos.
   21 Nolite timere: ego pascam vos et parvulos vestros" Consolatusque est eos et blande ac leniter est locutus.
   22 Et habitavit in Aegypto cum omni domo patris sui; vixitque centum decem annis
   23 et vidit Ephraim filios usque ad tertiam generationem; filii quoque Machir filii Manasse nati sunt in genibus Ioseph.
   24 Quibus transactis, locutus est fratribus suis: "Post mortem meam Deus visitabit vos et ascendere vos faciet de terra ista ad terram, quam iuravit Abraham, Isaac et Iacob"
   25 Cumque adiurasset eos atque dixisset: "Deus visitabit vos; asportate ossa mea vobiscum de loco isto"
   26 mortuus est, expletis centum decem vitae suae annis. Et conditus aromatibus repositus est in loculo in Aegypto.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
   2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
   3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
   4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
   5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
   6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
   7 ¶ And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
   8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
   9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
   10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
   11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
   12 And his sons did unto him according 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 for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
   14 ¶ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
   15 ¶ And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
   16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
   17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
   18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
   19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
   20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
   21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
   22 ¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
   23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
   24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
   25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
   26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.