Genesis 50:16

World English Bible (2000)

They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

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  • Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

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  • Gen 50:17-18
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    17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

    18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

  • Gen 50:14-15
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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.

    15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."

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

  • Gen 50:4-7
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    4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

    5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

    6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

    7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

  • Gen 50:24-25
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    24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

    25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

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

  • 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.

  • Gen 45:8-9
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    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.

  • Gen 46:30-31
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    30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

    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.

  • 12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

  • 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.

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

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

  • Gen 45:3-5
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    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.

    5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

  • 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 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

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

  • 13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."

  • 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

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

  • 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.