¹Zvino Josefa akawira pamusoro pechiso chababa vake, akachema pamusoro pake, akamutsvoda.

¹And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

²Josefa akaraira varanda vake dzakanga dziri n'anga, kuti vasasike baba vake, n'anga dzikasasika Isiraeri.

²And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

³Vakapedza mazuva makumi mana naye, nekuti ndiwo aiva mazuva okusasika; navaEgipita vakamu­chema mazuva makumi manomwe.

³And 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.

⁴Zvino mazuva okuchema akati apera, Josefa akataura naveimba yaFarao, akati, Zvino kana ndawana nyasha kwa­muri, dorevai munzeve dzaFarao, muti,

⁴And 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,

⁵Baba vangu vakandipikisa, vachiti tari­rai, ndofa, muguva randakazvicherera munyika yeKanani, ndimo maunofanira kundivigamo. Naizvozvo zvino dondite­nderai henyu kuti ndikwire, ndindoviga baba vangu, ndogodzoka.

⁵My 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.

⁶Farao akati, Kwira, undoviga baba vako, sezvavakakupikisa.

⁶And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

⁷Ipapo Josefa akakwira kundoviga baba vake, navaranda vose vaFarao va­kakwira naye, vakuru veimba yake, na­vakuru venyika yeEgipita,

⁷And 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,

⁸naveimba yose yaJosefa, navana vababa vake, naveimba yababa vake; asi pwere dzavo dzoga, namakwai avo, nemombe dzavo, vaka­zvisiya panyika yeGosheni,

⁸And 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.

⁹ngoro nava­tasvi vamabhiza vakakwirawo naye, ri­kava boka guru-guru.

⁹And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

¹⁰Vakasvika paburiro raAtadhi, riri mhiri kwaJoridhani, vakamuchemapo nokuchema kukuru kwazvo; akachema baba vake mazuva manomwe.

¹⁰And 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.

¹¹Zvino vanhu vaigara panyika yeKanani vakati vachiona kuchema ikoko paburiro raAtadhi, vakati, Kuchema uku kukuru ndokwavaEgipita; naizvozvo nzvimbo iyoyo ikatumidzwa Abherimiziraimu, iri mhiri kwaJoridhani.

¹¹And 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 Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

¹²Vanakomana vake vakamuitira sezvaakanga avaraira;

¹²And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

¹³nekuti vanakomana vake vakando­muisa kunyika yeKanani, vakamuviga mubako romunda weMakapera, riya ra­katengwa naAbhurahamu, pamwechete nomunda kuna Efuroni muHeti, pakata­risana neMamure, kuti zvive zvake, ive nzvimbo yake yokuviga.

¹³For 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.

¹⁴Zvino Josefa akati aviga baba vake, akadzokera Egipita, iye navakoma vake, navose vakanga vakwira naye ku­ndoviga baba vake.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁵Zvino vakoma vaJosefa vakati vachiona kuti baba vavo vafa, vakati, Zvimwe Josefa achative­nga, nokutitsiva kwazvo zvakaipa zvose zvatakamuitira.

¹⁵And 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.

¹⁶Naizvozvo vakatuma shoko kuna Josefa, vachiti, Baba venyu vakaraira, vasati vafa, vachiti,

¹⁶And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

¹⁷Taurai naJosefa, muti, Zvino dokangamwirai henyu kutadza kwavakoma venyu; ne­zvivi zvavo, nekuti vakakuitirai zva­kaipa; zvino dokangamwirai kutadza kwa­varanda vaMwari wababa venyu. Josefa akachema pakutaura kwavo naye.

¹⁷So 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.

¹⁸Vakuru vake vakaendawo, vaka­wira pasi pamberi pake, vakati, Tarirai, tiri varanda venyu.

¹⁸And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

¹⁹Josefa akati kwavari, Musatya, nekuti ini ndiri pachigaro chaMwari here?

¹⁹And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

²⁰Kana murimwi, makandifungira zvakaipa, asi Mwari akafunga kuti zvive zvakanaka, kuti zviitwe sezvinoitwa nhasi, kuti vanhu vazhinji vararamiswe.

²⁰But 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.

²¹Naizvozvo zvino musatya, ndichaku­chengetai, nepwere dzenyu. Akavanya­radza, akataura navo nomoyo waka­naka.

²¹Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

²²Josefa akagara Egipita, iye navei­mba yababa vake; Josefa akagara makore ane zana negumi.

²²And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

²³Josefa akaona vana vaEfuremu vorudzi rwechitatu, navana vaMakiri, mwanakomana waManase, va­kaberekerwa pamabvi aJosefa.

²³And 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.

²⁴Josefa akati kuhama dzake, Ndofa, asi Mwari achakumutsai zvirokwazvo, nokukubudi­sai panyika ino, muende kunyika yaaka­pikira Abhurahamu naIsaka, naJakove.

²⁴And 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.

²⁵Josefa akapikisa vana vaIsiraeri, akati, Mwari achakumutsai zvirokwazvo, nemwi mutakure mafupa angu abve pano.

²⁵And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

²⁶Ipapo Josefa akafa, ava namakore ane zana negumi; vakamusasika, akaiswa mubhokisi paEgipita.

²⁶So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.