1 it is beyond the Jordan.
12Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them.
13 Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this instruction before he died,
17‘Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you.’ Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18 fell down before him, and said, “We are here as your slaves.”
19Gen 45.5; Deut 32.35; Rom 12.19; Heb 10.30But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God?
20Gen 37.26, 27; 45.5, 7Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
21Gen 45.11; 47.12So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.
Joseph’s Last Days and Death22So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
23Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph’s knees.
24 Gen 13.15, 17; 17.7, 8; 26.3; 28.13; 35.12; 48.21; Heb 11.22 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely come to you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
25So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.”
26And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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