Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 50

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As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?

So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.