Genesis 45:28

Israel said, “All right, I believe you! My son Joseph is still alive! I'm going to go and see him before I die.”

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In The King James Version

And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

In Context

27But when they told him everything that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to take him to Egypt, Jacob came back to his senses.

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Cross References

Genesis 46:30“Now I can die in peace because I have seen your face again and know you're still alive,” Israel told Joseph.

John 16:21A woman in labor suffers pain because her time has come, but once the baby is born, she forgets the agony because of the joy that a child has been brought into the world.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:26-28

The History of Joseph. ( b. c. 1707.) 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: 28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I… Read the whole commentary →

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