16 So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, 17 ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; (A)for they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of (B)the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 Then his brothers also went and (C)fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

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16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions(A) before he died: 17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins(B) and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’(C) Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.(D)” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.(E)

18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him.(F) “We are your slaves,”(G) they said.

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