Genesis 50 Free Bible Version
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1 Joseph went and hugged his father, weeping over him and kissing him.
1 ENTONCES se echó José sobre el rostro de su padre, y lloró sobre él, y besólo.
2 Then Joseph instructed the physicians who worked for him to embalm his father's body. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
2 Y mandó José á sus médicos familiares que embalsamasen á su padre: y los médicos embalsamaron á Israel.
3 This took a full 40 days, the normal time for the process, and the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days.
3 Y cumpliéronle cuarenta días, porque así cumplían los días de los embalsamados, y lloráronlo los Egipcios setenta días.
4 Once the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's officials, “If you'd be so kind, please speak to Pharaoh on my behalf, and explain to him that
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 my father made me swear an oath, telling me, ‘You must bury me in the tomb I've prepared for myself in Canaan. Please allow me to go and bury my father and then I'll 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 Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father as he made you swear to do.”
6 Y Faraón dijo: Ve, y sepulta á tu padre, como él te conjuró.
7 Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials went with him—all Pharaoh's senior advisors and all the leaders 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 as well as Joseph's family, his brothers, and his father's family. They only left the small children and their flocks and herds back in Goshen.
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 They were accompanied by chariots and horsemen—a really large procession.
9 Y subieron también con él carros y gente de á caballo, é hízose un escuadrón muy grande.
10 When they got to the threshing floor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they wept loudly in sorrow. Joseph held a seven-day ceremony of mourning for his father there.
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 The Canaanites who lived there watched the ceremony of mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. They said, “This is a very sad time of mourning for the Egyptians,” so they renamed the place Abel-mizraim, which is on the other side of the Jordan.
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 Jacob's sons did what he had instructed them to do.
12 Hicieron, pues, sus hijos con él, según les había mandado:
13 They carried his body to Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
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 After they had buried their father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt along with all those who had gone with them.
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 However, now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became worried, saying, “Maybe Joseph is holding a grudge against us, and he'll pay us back for all the bad things 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 So they sent a message to Joseph to tell him, “Before your father died, he gave this order:
16 Y enviaron á decir á José: Tu padre mandó antes de su muerte, diciendo:
17 ‘This is what you are to tell Joseph: Forgive your brothers their sins, the bad things they did to you, treating you in such a nasty way.’ Now please forgive us our sins, we who are servants of the God of your father.” When Joseph received their message, he cried.
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 Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”
18 Y vinieron también sus hermanos, y postráronse delante de él, y dijeron: Henos aquí por tus siervos.
19 “You don't need to be afraid!” he told them. “I don't stand in the place of God, do I?
19 Y respondióles José: No temáis: ¿estoy yo en lugar de Dios?
20 While you planned bad things for me, God planned it for good so that in the end many lives could be saved.
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 So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calmed them down.
21 Ahora, pues, no tengáis miedo; yo os sustentaré á vosotros y á vuestros hijos. Así los consoló, y les habló al corazón.
22 Joseph remained in Egypt, together with his father's whole family. He lived to be 110,
22 Y estuvo José en Egipto, él y la casa de su padre: y vivió José ciento diez años.
23 and saw three generations of his son Ephraim, and the sons of Makir, Manasseh's son, were placed in his lap when they were born.
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 “I'm going to die soon,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will be with you, and he will lead you out of this country to the land that he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
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 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, “When God comes to be with you, you must take my bones with you when you leave.”
25 Y conjuró José á los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Dios ciertamente os visitará, y haréis llevar de aquí mis huesos.
26 Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
26 Y murió José de edad de ciento diez años; y embalsamáronlo, y fué puesto en un ataúd en Egipto.
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Betrayed and enslaved, he rose to rule Egypt and saved his family from famine.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 37; 39–50
Cross references (24)
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
- 26 Joshua 24:29; Genesis 50:22; Genesis 47:28; Genesis 47:9; Genesis 50:2–3
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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.
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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)