Genesis · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Genesis 50 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father’s face weeping and kissing him.
1 ENTONCES se echó José sobre el rostro de su padre, y lloró sobre él, y besólo.
2 And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
2 Y mandó José á sus médicos familiares que embalsamasen á su padre: y los médicos embalsamaron á Israel.
3 And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
3 Y cumpliéronle cuarenta días, porque así cumplían los días de los embalsamados, y lloráronlo los Egipcios setenta días.
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:
4 Y pasados los días de su luto, habló José á los de la casa de Faraón, diciendo: Si he hallado ahora gracia en vuestros ojos, os ruego que habléis en oídos de Faraón, diciendo:
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.
5 Mi padre me conjuró diciendo: He aquí yo muero; en mi sepulcro que yo cavé para mí en la tierra de Canaán, allí me sepultarás; ruego pues que vaya yo ahora, y sepultaré á mi padre, y volveré.
6 And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
6 Y Faraón dijo: Ve, y sepulta á tu padre, como él te conjuró.
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,
7 Entonces José subió á sepultar á su padre; y subieron con él todos los siervos de Faraón, los ancianos de su casa, y todos los ancianos de la tierra de Egipto,
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.
8 Y toda la casa de José, y sus hermanos, y la casa de su padre: solamente dejaron en la tierra de Gosén sus niños, y sus ovejas y sus vacas.
9 He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.
9 Y subieron también con él carros y gente de á caballo, é hízose un escuadrón muy grande.
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.
10 Y llegaron hasta la era de Atad, que está á la otra parte del Jordán, y endecharon allí con grande y muy grave lamentación: y José hizo á su padre duelo por siete días.
11 And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.
11 Y viendo los moradores de la tierra, los Cananeos, el llanto en la era de Atad, dijeron: Llanto grande es este de los Egipcios: por eso fué llamado su nombre Abelmizraim, que está á la otra parte del Jordán.
12 So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.
12 Hicieron, pues, sus hijos con él, según les había mandado:
13 And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite over against Mambre.
13 Pues lleváronlo sus hijos á la tierra de Canaán, y le sepultaron en la cueva del campo de Macpela, la que había comprado Abraham con el mismo campo, para heredad de sepultura, de Ephrón el Hetheo, delante de Mamre.
14 And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.
14 Y tornóse José á Egipto, él y sus hermanos, y todos los que subieron con él á sepultar á su padre, después que le hubo sepultado.
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.
15 Y viendo los hermanos de José que su padre era muerto, dijeron: Quizá nos aborrecerá José, y nos dará el pago de todo el mal que le hicimos.
16 And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
16 Y enviaron á decir á José: Tu padre mandó antes de su muerte, diciendo:
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.
17 Así diréis á José: Ruégote que perdones ahora la maldad de tus hermanos y su pecado, porque mal te trataron: por tanto ahora te rogamos que perdones la maldad de los siervos del Dios de tu padre. Y José lloró mientras hablaban.
18 And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants.
18 Y vinieron también sus hermanos, y postráronse delante de él, y dijeron: Henos aquí por tus siervos.
19 And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?
19 Y respondióles José: No temáis: ¿estoy yo en lugar de Dios?
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.
20 Vosotros pensasteis mal sobre mí, mas Dios lo encaminó á bien, para hacer lo que vemos hoy, para mantener en vida á mucho pueblo.
21 Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.
21 Ahora, pues, no tengáis miedo; yo os sustentaré á vosotros y á vuestros hijos. Así los consoló, y les habló al corazón.
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 Manasses were born on Joseph’s knees.
22 Y estuvo José en Egipto, él y la casa de su padre: y vivió José ciento diez años.
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.
23 Y vió José los hijos de Ephraim hasta la tercera generación: también los hijos de Machîr, hijo de Manasés, fueron criados sobre las rodillas de José.
24 And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place:
24 Y José dijo á sus hermanos: Yo me muero; mas Dios ciertamente os visitará, y os hará subir de aquesta tierra á la tierra que juró á Abraham, á Isaac, y á Jacob.
25 And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.
25 Y conjuró José á los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Dios ciertamente os visitará, y haréis llevar de aquí mis huesos. 26 Y murió José de edad de ciento diez años; y embalsamáronlo, y fué puesto en un ataúd en Egipto.
People & places in this chapter
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Joseph
Betrayed and enslaved, he rose to rule Egypt and saved his family from famine.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 37; 39–50
Machir
Manasseh's son, whose own sons were brought up on Joseph's knees, called the father of Gilead; his descendants captured Gilead and Moses gave it to his clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 50:23; Numbers 26:29; Numbers 32:39–40
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 46:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; Ephesians 6:4; Acts 8:2; Genesis 23:2
- 2 2 Chronicles 16:14; Genesis 50:26; John 19:39–40; Mark 16:1; Matthew 26:12
- 3 Numbers 20:29; Deuteronomy 34:8; Genesis 50:10; Deuteronomy 21:13
- 4 Genesis 18:3; Esther 4:2
- 5 2 Chronicles 16:14; Isaiah 22:16; Matthew 27:60; Genesis 47:29–31; Genesis 3:19
- 6 Genesis 48:21
- 7 Genesis 14:16
- 8 Numbers 32:24–27; Exodus 10:8–9; Exodus 10:26
- 9 Song of Songs 1:9; Exodus 14:17; Genesis 46:29; Acts 8:2; Exodus 14:28
- 10 Job 2:13; Acts 8:2; 2 Samuel 1:17; 1 Samuel 31:13; Numbers 19:11
- 11 Genesis 24:6; Genesis 10:15–19; Deuteronomy 11:30; Genesis 50:10; Deuteronomy 3:27
- 12 Acts 7:16; Genesis 49:29–32; Ephesians 6:1; Exodus 20:12; Genesis 47:29–31
- 13 Genesis 23:16–18; Acts 7:16; Genesis 49:29–31; Genesis 35:27; Genesis 23:20
- 15 Proverbs 28:1; Genesis 42:21–22; Psalm 14:5; Genesis 27:41–42; Job 15:21–22
- 16 Proverbs 29:25
- 17 Matthew 6:14–15; Ephesians 4:32; Luke 17:3–4; Genesis 45:4–5; Proverbs 28:13
- 18 Genesis 37:7–11; Genesis 44:14; Genesis 45:3; Genesis 27:29; Genesis 42:6
- 19 Romans 12:19; Genesis 30:2; Genesis 45:5; 2 Kings 5:7; Hebrews 10:30
- 20 Romans 8:28; Psalm 119:71; Genesis 45:5–8; Genesis 37:18–20; Psalm 105:16–17
- 21 Genesis 47:12; 1 Peter 3:9; Genesis 45:10–11; Matthew 5:44; Romans 12:20–21
- 23 Numbers 32:39; Job 42:16; Genesis 30:3; Genesis 48:19; Psalm 128:6
- 24 Exodus 3:16–17; Genesis 35:12; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 46:4; Genesis 28:13
- 25 Joshua 24:32; Exodus 13:19; Acts 7:16; Hebrews 11:22; Genesis 47:29–31
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
For the same Scripture speaks thus of Joseph: "And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all his father's house: and Joseph lived 110 years, and saw Ephraim's children of the third generation." That is, his great-grandson, the third from Ephraim; for the third generation means son, grandson, great-grandson.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Then it is added, "The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born upon Joseph's knees." And this is that grandson of Manasseh, and great-grandson of Joseph.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)