Genesis 50:17
‘This is what you are to tell Joseph: Forgive your brothers their sins, the bad things they did to you, treating you in such a nasty way.’ Now please forgive us our sins, we who are servants of the God of your father.” When Joseph received their message, he cried.
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16So they sent a message to Joseph to tell him, “Before your father died, he gave this order:
18Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”
Cross References
Genesis 42:21“Clearly we're being punished for what we did to our brother,” they said to each other. “We watched him in agony pleading with us for mercy, but we refused to listen to him. That's why we're in all this trouble.”
Genesis 45:8So it wasn't you who sent me here, but God. He was the one who made me Pharaoh's chief advisor in charge of all his affairs, and ruler of the whole country of Egypt.
Genesis 50:20While you planned bad things for me, God planned it for good so that in the end many lives could be saved.
Psalms 21:11Though they plot evil against you, their malicious schemes will not succeed.
Matthew 6:12Forgive our sins, just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.
Matthew 10:42I tell you the truth, those who give a drink of cool water to the least important of my disciples will definitely not miss out on their reward.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 50:16-22
Joseph Comforts His Brethren. ( b. c. 1689.) 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God… Read the whole commentary →