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When Joseph'sbrotherssaw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Josephbears a grudgeagainst us and pays us back in full for all the wrongwhich we did to him!"
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'Thus you shall say to Joseph, "Pleaseforgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong."' And now, pleaseforgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Josephwept when they spoke to him.
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Josephsaid to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surelytakecare of you and bring you up from thisland to the landwhich He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob."