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17 So shall you say to Joseph: Forgive (take up and away all resentment and all claim to requital concerning), I pray you now, the trespass of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you. Now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of your father’s God. And Joseph wept when they spoke thus to him.

18 Then his brothers went and fell down before him, saying, See, we are your servants (your slaves)!

19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God? [Vengeance is His, not mine.]

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17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins(A) and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’(B) Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.(C)” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.(D)

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

19 But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?(G)

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