Genesis 50:21 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. {kindly...: Heb. to their hearts}”

Genesis 50:21

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And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for {am} I in the place of God?

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; {but} God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as {it is} this day, to save much people alive.

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. {kindly...: Heb. to their hearts}

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third {generation}: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. {brought...: Heb. born}

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Genesis 50:1

"And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him."

Genesis 50:2

"And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel."

Genesis 50:3

"And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. {mourned: Heb. wept}"

Genesis 50:4

"And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,"

Genesis 50:5

"My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again."

Genesis 50:6

"And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."

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