16. So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died:
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.
18. His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.
19. But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
20. You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
21. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
22. Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years
23. and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.
24. Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”