When
Jacob was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, Joseph will perhaps hate us and will
requite us all the evil which we did to him.
So
they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, “Thy father did command before he
died, Forgive, I pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin.”
And
Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
His
brothers also went and fell down before him, and they said, “Behold, we be thy
servants.”
But
Joseph said to them, “Fear not, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it to
bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” So he comforted
them and spoke kindly to them.
Joseph
dwelt in Egypt a long time. He lived a hundred and ten years.
Then
Joseph said to his brethren, “I die, and God will surely visit you, and bring
you out of this land unto the land he sware to Abraham, and ye shall carry up
my bones with you.”
So
Joseph died, and they embalmed him as was the custom of the Egyptians, and he
was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Gen. 50:15-26