Genesis 50:16
So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died:
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- Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be set on high.
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- Gen 50:17-182 verses83%
17‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.
18Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said,“Here we are; we are your slaves.”
- Gen 50:14-152 verses82%
14After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,“What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”
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5Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.
- Gen 50:4-74 verses80%
4When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court,“If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,
5‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,“I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
6So Pharaoh said,“Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”
7So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him– the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
- Gen 50:24-252 verses78%
24Then Joseph said to his brothers,“I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
25Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said,“God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
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17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!
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21Then Israel said to Joseph,“I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
- Gen 45:8-92 verses77%
8So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9Now go up to my father quickly and tell him,‘This is what your son Joseph says:“God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!
- Gen 46:30-312 verses77%
30Israel said to Joseph,“Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”
31Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
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12So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.
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1Manasseh and Ephraim After these things Joseph was told,“Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.
- Gen 50:1-22 verses76%
1The Burials of Jacob and Joseph Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.
2Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.
- Gen 45:3-53 verses75%
3Joseph said to his brothers,“I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.
4Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!
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28Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.
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29They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,
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25So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
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13So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”
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30but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said,“I will do as you say.”
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27He asked them how they were doing. Then he said,“Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?”
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27But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.