Genesis 45:26

World English Bible (2000)

They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.

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  • Gen 44:28 : 28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
  • Gen 37:35 : 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
  • Gen 42:36 : 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
  • Gen 45:8-9 : 8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.
  • Job 9:16 : 16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
  • Job 29:24 : 24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.
  • Ps 105:21 : 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;
  • Ps 126:1 : 1 When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
  • Jonah 2:7 : 7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
  • Luke 24:11 : 11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.
  • Luke 24:34 : 34 saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

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    27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

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    25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

  • Gen 45:1-4
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    1 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

    2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

    3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

    4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 42:28-29
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    28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

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    1 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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  • Gen 46:28-31
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    28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

    29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

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

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    27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

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    9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

  • Gen 50:22
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    22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

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    7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

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    35 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

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    14 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

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    1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

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    28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

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    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

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    5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

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    21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.