◄ Genesis 50:16 ►
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Good News Translation
So they sent a message to Joseph: "Before our father died,

New Revised Standard Version
So they approached Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this instruction before he died,

Contemporary English Version
So they sent this message to Joseph: Before our father died,

New American Bible
So they sent to Joseph and said: “Before your father died, he gave us these instructions:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,

sent.

Proverbs 29:25 He that feareth man shall quickly fall: he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be set on high.

Context
Joseph Comforts His Brothers
15Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. 16And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,17That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.…
Cross References
Genesis 50:15
Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.

Genesis 50:17
That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

Genesis 50:15
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