Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 50

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Even 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.

But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God?

So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.

‘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.

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.”

So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.”

And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.