Genesis 50:17
'Tell Joseph this, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin when they did evil to you.”' Now please forgive the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
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In Context
18His brothers also went and lay facedown before him. They said, “See, we are your servants.”
Cross References
Genesis 42:21They said to one another, “We are truly guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us and we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
Genesis 45:8So now it was not you who sent me here but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, master of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 50:20As for you, you meant to harm me, but God meant it for good, to preserve the lives of many people, as you see today.
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against you; 1 they conceived a plot with which they will not succeed! 1
Matthew 6:12Forgive us our debts, 2 as we also have forgiven our debtors. 2
Matthew 10:42Whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink because he is a disciple, truly I say to you, he will in no way lose his 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 →