Genesis 50:15

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 the evil which we did to him.”

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

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

16They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

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Cross References

Genesis 37:18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Genesis 42:17He put them all together into custody for three days.

Leviticus 26:36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

Psalms 14:5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 50:8-15

7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great… Read the whole commentary →

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