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 who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy 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 spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favour 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, Behold, I die; in my grave which I have dug myself in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. And now, let me go up, I pray thee, that I may 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 bondmen 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 the camp was very great.

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

¹⁰And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of 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 the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

¹²Vanakomana vake vakamuitira sezvaakanga avaraira;

¹²And his sons did to him according as he had 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.

¹³and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre.

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

¹⁴And, after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that had gone up with him to bury 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, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him!

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

¹⁶And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded 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.

¹⁷Thus shall ye speak to Joseph: Oh forgive, I pray thee, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin! for they did evil to thee. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to 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 said, Behold, we are thy bondmen.

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

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

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

²⁰Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as [it is] this day, to save a great people alive.

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

²¹And now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to 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 a 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 sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.

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

²⁴And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into the land that he swore unto 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 certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence.

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

²⁶And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.