Testamento de Jacó 5

1E o Senhor desceu do céu, andando Miguel e Gabriel com Ele, e muitas legiões de anjos salmodiando diante d'Ele; e receberam a alma de Jacó Israel no tabernáculo de luz, junto de seus santos pais Abraão e Isaque.

1And the Lord came down from heaven, with Michael and Gabriel walking with Him, and many legions of angels singing psalms before Him; and they received the soul of Jacob Israel into the tabernacle of light, beside his holy fathers Abraham and Isaac.

2Estes são os anos da vida de Jacó Israel, o patriarca: José o pôs em pé diante de Faraó quando ele tinha cento e trinta anos, e dezessete anos habitou no Egito; todos estes perfazem cento e quarenta e sete anos.

2Now these are the years of the life of Jacob Israel the patriarch: Joseph set him before Pharaoh when he was an hundred and thirty years old, and seventeen years he dwelt in Egypt; all these make an hundred and forty and seven years.

3Descansou numa ditosa velhice, aperfeiçoado em toda a virtude e bênção espiritual juntamente; e deu glória a Deus na sua partida, na paz de Deus. Amém.

3He rested in a good old age, being perfected in all virtue and spiritual blessing together; and he gave glory unto God in his departure, in the peace of God. Amen.

4E José lançou-se sobre o seu pai e o beijou, chorando sobre ele; e José ordenou aos seus servos embalsamadores, dizendo: 'Embalsamai bem a meu pai, segundo o costume dos egípcios.'

4And Joseph cast himself upon his father and kissed him, weeping over him; and Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers, saying: 'Embalm my father well, after the custom of the Egyptians.'

5E cumpriram quarenta dias no embalsamamento de Israel; e, terminados os quarenta dias de embalsamar a Israel, prantearam-no por setenta dias; e Faraó também pranteou, chorando por Jacó, por causa de sua afeição para com José.

5And they fulfilled forty days in embalming Israel; and when the forty days of embalming Israel were ended, they mourned for him threescore and ten days; and Pharaoh also mourned, weeping for Jacob, by reason of his affection toward Joseph.

6E falou José aos grandes de Faraó, dizendo-lhes deste modo: 'Se achei graça diante dos vossos olhos, falai perante Faraó, o rei, dizendo: Meu pai me fez jurar quando estava para sair do corpo, dizendo: Sepulta o meu corpo na sepultura de meus pais na terra de Canaã; agora, pois, permita-me ele que eu sepulte a meu pai naquele lugar, e eu voltarei.'

6And Joseph spake unto the dignitaries of Pharaoh, saying unto them in this manner: 'If now I have found grace in your sight, speak unto Pharaoh the king, saying: My father made me swear when he was about to depart from the body, saying: Bury my body in the sepulchre of my fathers in the land of Canaan; now therefore let him permit me to bury my father in that place, and I will return.'

7Disse Faraó, o rei, a José, o sábio: 'Sobe em paz e sepulta a teu pai segundo o juramento que te fez jurar; leva contigo carros, e cavaleiros, e todos os nobres de meu reino, e dentre os meus servos a quem quer que desejares.' E José adorou a Deus na presença de Faraó, e retirou-se de diante dele.

7Pharaoh the king said unto Joseph the wise: 'Go up in peace, and bury thy father according to the oath wherewith he made thee swear; take with thee chariots, and horsemen, and all the nobles of my kingdom, and of my servants whomsoever thou desirest.' And Joseph worshipped God in the presence of Pharaoh, and departed from him.

8E partiu José para sepultar a seu pai, e todos os servos de Faraó partiram com ele, e os anciãos do Egito, e toda a casa de José, e seus irmãos, e toda a casa de Israel; e subiram com ele carros e cavaleiros, um arraial grandíssimo.

8And Joseph went forth to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh went forth with him, and the elders of Egypt, and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of Israel; and chariots and horsemen went up with him, a very great camp.

9E, chegando eles à eira de Gileade, que fica além do Jordão, lamentaram por ele ali com grande e doloroso pranto, comovidos com profunda tristeza, e fizeram pranto por ele durante sete dias; e os habitantes da terra de Canaã ouviram o pranto na eira de Gileade, e disseram: 'Este é um grande pranto para os egípcios'; pelo que até o dia de hoje chamam aquele lugar O Pranto do Egito.

9And when they came to the threshing-floor of Gilead, which is beyond Jordan, they lamented for him there with a great and sore lamentation, being moved with exceeding sorrow, and made mourning for him seven days; and they that dwelt in the land of Canaan heard the lamentation at the threshing-floor of Gilead, and said: 'This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians'; wherefore unto this day they call that place The Mourning of Egypt.

10E levaram a Israel, e sepultaram-no na terra de Canaã, na cova dupla que Abraão comprou por posse de sepultura de Efrom, o heteu, em frente a Manre; e José voltou ao Egito, ele e seus irmãos e todo o séquito da casa de Faraó; e viveu José depois da morte de seu pai cento e dez anos, governando sobre o Egito; e Jacó Israel faleceu, e foi recolhido ao seu povo.

10And they carried Israel, and buried him in the land of Canaan, in the double cave which Abraham bought for a possession of a burying-place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre; and Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren and all the company of Pharaoh's house; and Joseph lived after the death of his father an hundred and ten years, ruling over Egypt; and Jacob Israel died, and was gathered unto his people.