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|Génesis 50:11|
When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim. [Abel Mizraim means mourning of the Egyptians.]
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|Génesis 50:12|
So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:
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|Génesis 50:13|
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.
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|Génesis 50:14|
After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.
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|Génesis 50:15|
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?”
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|Génesis 50:16|
So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died:
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|Génesis 50:17|
‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
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|Génesis 50:18|
His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.
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|Génesis 50:19|
But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
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|Génesis 50:20|
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
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