50¹ And Joseph falleth on his father's face, and weepeth over him, and kisseth him; ² and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel; ³ and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days. ⁴ And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaketh unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, 'If, I pray you, I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, ⁵ My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;' ⁶ and Pharaoh saith, 'Go up and bury thy father, as he caused thee to swear.'

⁷ And Joseph goeth up to bury his father, and go up with him do all the servants of Pharaoh, elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, ⁸ and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen; ⁹ and there go up with him both chariot and horsemen, and the camp is very great. ¹⁰ And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which 'is' beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days, ¹¹ and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, see the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad, and say, 'A grievous mourning 'is' this to the Egyptians;' therefore hath 'one' called its name 'The mourning of the Egyptians,' which 'is' beyond the Jordan. ¹² And his sons do to him so as he commanded them, ¹³ and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre. ¹⁴ And Joseph turneth back to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father.

The Death of Joseph

¹⁵ And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, 'Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.' ¹⁶ And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, 'Thy father commanded before his death, saying, ¹⁷ Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him. ¹⁸ And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, 'Lo, we 'are' to thee for servants.' ¹⁹ And Joseph saith unto them, 'Fear not, for 'am' I in the place of God? ²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil—God devised it for good, in order to do as 'at' this day, to keep alive a numerous people; ²¹ and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.

²² And Joseph dwelleth in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph liveth a hundred and ten years, ²³ and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third 'generation'; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph. ²⁴ And Joseph saith unto his brethren, 'I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.' ²⁵ And Joseph causeth the sons of Israel to swear, saying, 'God doth certainly inspect you, and ye have brought up my bones from this 'place'.' ²⁶ And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.

Man's Disobedience

3¹ And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' ² And the woman saith unto the serpent, 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat, ³ and of the fruit of the tree which 'is' in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die.' ⁴ And the serpent saith unto the woman, 'Dying, ye do not die, ⁵ for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it—your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'

⁶ And the woman seeth that the tree 'is' good for food, and that it 'is' pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make 'one' wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat; ⁷ and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they 'are' naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles. ⁸ And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

⁹ And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, 'Where 'art' thou?' ¹⁰ and he saith, 'Thy sound I have heard in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.'

¹¹ And He saith, 'Who hath declared to thee that thou 'art' naked? of the tree of which I have commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?' ¹² and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me—she hath given to me of the tree—and I do eat.' ¹³ And Jehovah God saith to the woman, 'What 'is' this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, 'The serpent hath caused me to forget—and I do eat.'

¹⁴ And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, 'Because thou hast done this, cursed 'art' thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life; ¹⁵ and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee—the head, and thou dost bruise him—the heel.'

¹⁶ Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband 'is' thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

¹⁷ And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed 'is' the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, ¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; ¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou 'art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'

²⁰ And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

²¹ And Jehovah God doth make to the man and to his wife coats of skin, and doth clothe them.

²² And Jehovah God saith, 'Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,'— ²³ Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken; ²⁴ yea, he casteth out the man, and causeth to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flame of the sword which is turning itself round to guard the way of the tree of life.