Genesis 50:16

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So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, 'Before he died, your father gave this command:

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  • Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be kept safe.

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  • Gen 50:17-18
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    17'This is what you are to say to Joseph: “Please forgive the transgressions of your brothers and their sin, for they treated you so badly.” Now, please forgive the transgressions of the servants of the God of your father.' Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

    18Then his brothers also came, bowed down before him, and said, 'We are your servants.'

  • Gen 50:14-15
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    14After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had gone up with him to bury his father.

    15When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, 'What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and repays us for all the evil we did to him?'

  • Gen 47:5
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    5Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Your father and brothers have come to you.'

  • Gen 50:4-7
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    4When the days of mourning were over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's household, saying, 'If I have found favor with you, please convey this message to Pharaoh.

    5'My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die. Bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now, please let me go and bury my father, and I will return.'

    6Pharaoh replied, 'Go and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.'

    7Joseph went up to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials, the elders of his household, and the elders of the land of Egypt went with him.

  • Gen 50:24-25
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    24Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.'

    25And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, 'God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.'

  • Gen 45:17
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    17Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Tell your brothers to do this: Load your animals and go back to the land of Canaan.'

  • Gen 48:21
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    21Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.'

  • Gen 45:8-9
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    8So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me like a father to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and a ruler throughout Egypt.

    9Hurry and go up to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord over all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay.’

  • Gen 46:30-31
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    30Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Now I am ready to die, since I have seen your face and know you are still alive.'

    31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, 'I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, "My brothers and my father’s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.'"

  • Gen 50:12
    76%

    12Jacob's sons did for him as he had commanded them.

  • Gen 48:1
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    1After these events, someone told Joseph, 'Your father is ill.' So Joseph took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him.

  • Gen 50:1-2
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    1Joseph fell on his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.

    2Joseph directed his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel.

  • Gen 45:3-5
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    75%

    3Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?' But his brothers could not answer him because they were so shocked and dismayed by his presence.

    4Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'Please come closer to me.' They came closer, and he said, 'I am Joseph, your brother, the one you sold into Egypt.'

    5Now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

  • Gen 46:28
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    28Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the land of Goshen,

  • Gen 42:29
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    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

  • Gen 45:25
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    25So they went up from Egypt and came to Canaan to their father Jacob.

  • Gen 45:13
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    13Tell my father about all the honor that I have in Egypt and everything you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.

  • Gen 47:30
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    30When I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph answered, 'I will do as you say.'

  • Gen 43:27
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    27He greeted them and asked, "How is your father, the old man you told me about? Is he still alive?"

  • Gen 45:27
    73%

    27But when they reported all the words Joseph had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.