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Genesis 45:28 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. "
Genesis 45:28
Verse in Context
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And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed
And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
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Genesis 45:1
"Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren."
Genesis 45:2
"And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard."
Genesis 45:3
"And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence."
Genesis 45:4
"And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt."
Genesis 45:5
"Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life."
Genesis 45:6
"For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest."
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