1 Un Jāzeps metās pie sava tēva vaiga, raudāja pie viņa un skūpstīja viņu. 2 Jāzeps pavēlēja saviem kalpiem dziedniekiem iebalzamēt savu tēvu, un dziednieki iebalzamēja Israēlu. 3 Pagāja četrdesmit dienas, jo tik ilgi noritēja balzamēšana. Tad ēģiptieši viņu apraudāja septiņdesmit dienas. 4 Kad apraudāšana beidzās, Jāzeps runāja ar faraona namu un teica: “Kaut jel es gūtu jūsu vēlību! – Sakiet jel faraonam: 5 mans tēvs mani nozvērināja, sacīdams: redzi – es mirstu! Manā kapā, ko es sev izcirtu Kanaāna zemē, – tur apglabā mani! Ļauj jel man tagad iet un apglabāt tēvu, un es atkal atgriezīšos!” 6 Faraons teica: “Ej un apglabā savu tēvu, kā tu esi zvērējis!” 7 Un Jāzeps devās apglabāt savu tēvu, un kopā ar viņu devās visi faraona kalpi, viņa nama vecajie, un visi Ēģiptes zemes vecajie. 8 Arī viss Jāzepa nams un viņa brāļi, un viņa tēva nams – tie atstāja Gošenes zemē tikai savus mazuļus, avis un vēršus. 9 Un kopā ar viņu devās gan rati, gan jātnieki – tas bija varens pulks! 10 Viņi atnāca līdz Goren-Ātādai, kas viņpus Jardānas, un tur viņi jo gauži un stipri viņu apraudāja. Savam tēvam viņš rīkoja sēras septiņas dienas! 11 Tās zemes iemītnieki kanaānieši redzēja sēras Goren-Ātādā un teica: “Ēģiptiešiem šīs ir lielas sēras!” – tādēļ to vietu nosauca vārdā Ābel-Micraima , tā ir viņpus Jardānas. 12 Un viņa dēli darīja, kā viņš tiem bija pavēlējis. 13 Viņa dēli aiznesa viņu uz Kanaāna zemi un apglabāja Mahpēlas lauka alā, kuru kopā ar lauku sev par kapavietu Ābrahāms bija nopircis no hetieša Efrona, tā ir uz Mamres pusi. 14 Pēc tam kad Jāzeps bija apglabājis savu tēvu, tas atgriezās Ēģiptē – viņš un viņa brāļi, un visi, kuri kopā ar viņu bija devušies apglabāt viņa tēvu.
Jāzeps piedod brāļiem
15 Kad Jāzepa brāļi saprata, ka viņu tēvs ir miris, viņi runāja: “Varbūt nu Jāzeps sāks turēt naidu un atdarīt mums visu ļauno, ko mēs viņam esam nodarījuši!” 16 Un viņi lika Jāzepam teikt: “Tavs tēvs pirms nāves pavēlēja, sacīdams: 17 tā sakiet Jāzepam: piedod savu brāļu noziegumu un grēku, kaut viņi tev darījuši ļaunu! Tad nu piedod tava tēva Dieva kalpu noziegumu!” Un Jāzeps raudāja par viņu teikto. 18 Un atnāca arī viņa brāļi, krita viņa priekšā un teica: “Redzi – mēs tavi vergi!” 19 Bet Jāzeps tiem teica: “Nebaidieties! Vai es Dieva vietā?! 20 Kad jūs domājāt pret mani ļaunu, Dievs to domāja par labu, lai darītu kā šodien – liktu dzīvot lielai tautai! 21 Un tagad – nebaidieties! Es apgādāšu jūs un jūsu mazuļus!” – un viņš tos nomierināja un runāja tiem pa prātam.
Jāzepa nāve
(Ebr 11:22)22 Jāzeps dzīvoja Ēģiptē – viņš un viņa tēva nams. Jāzeps nodzīvoja simts desmit gadu. 23 Jāzeps vēl redzēja Efraima dēlus trešajā augumā, arī Manases dēla Māhīra dēli piedzima Jāzepam uz ceļgaliem. 24 Un Jāzeps teica saviem brāļiem: “Es nu mirstu, bet Dievs jūs nepametīs un no šīs zemes aizvedīs uz zemi, par kuru viņš ir zvērējis Ābrahāmam, Īzakam un Jēkabam!” 25 Un Jāzeps nozvērināja Israēla dēlus: “Dievs jūs nepametīs, un jūs aizvedīsiet manus kaulus no šejienes!” 26 Un Jāzeps nomira simts desmit gadu vecs, un tie viņu iebalzamēja un ielika viņu šķirstā Ēģiptē.
1 Joseph threw himself on his father, crying and kissing his face. 2 Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body. 3 It took forty days, the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4 When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials, “Please take this message to the king: 5 ‘When my father was about to die, he made me promise him that I would bury him in the tomb which he had prepared in the land of Canaan. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will come back.’”
6 The king answered, “Go and bury your father, as you promised you would.”
7 So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph. 8 His family, his brothers, and the rest of his father's family all went with him. Only their small children and their sheep, goats, and cattle stayed in the region of Goshen. 9 Men in chariots and men on horseback also went with him; it was a huge group.
10 When they came to the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan, they mourned loudly for a long time, and Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days. 11 When the citizens of Canaan saw those people mourning at Atad, they said, “What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are holding!” That is why the place was named Abel Mizraim.
12 So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them; 13 they carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre in the field which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground. 14 After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him for the funeral.
Joseph Reassures His Brothers
15 After the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said, “What if Joseph still hates us and plans to pay us back for all the harm we did to him?” 16 So they sent a message to Joseph: “Before our father died, 17 he told us to ask you, ‘Please forgive the crime your brothers committed when they wronged you.’ Now please forgive us the wrong that we, the servants of your father's God, have done.” Joseph cried when he received this message.
18 Then his brothers themselves came and bowed down before him. “Here we are before you as your slaves,” they said.
19 But Joseph said to them, “Don't be afraid; I can't put myself in the place of God. 20 You plotted evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives of many people who are alive today because of what happened. 21 You have nothing to fear. I will take care of you and your children.” So he reassured them with kind words that touched their hearts.
The Death of Joseph
22 Joseph continued to live in Egypt with his father's family; he was a hundred and ten years old when he died. 23 He lived to see Ephraim's children and grandchildren. He also lived to receive the children of Machir son of Manasseh into the family. 24 He said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” 25 Then Joseph asked his people to make a vow. “Promise me,” he said, “that when God leads you to that land, you will take my body with you.” 26 So Joseph died in Egypt at the age of a hundred and ten. They embalmed his body and put it in a coffin.
