Genesis 37:10
10But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and ayour mother and your brothers indeed come bto bow ourselves to the ground before you?”Genesis 43:28
28They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” And they cbowed their heads and prostrated themselves.Genesis 44:14
14When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there. They dfell before him to the ground.Genesis 44:19
19My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’Genesis 45:9
9Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.Genesis 46:29
29Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and efell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.Genesis 47:12
12And Joseph fprovided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.Genesis 50:15-21
God’s Good Purposes
15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” 16So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: 17‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of gthe God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18His brothers also came and hfell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” 19But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for iam I in the place of God? 20As for you, you meant evil against me, but jGod meant it for good, to bring it about that many people ▼▼Or a numerous people
should be kept alive, as they are today. 21So do not fear; lI will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. Acts 7:9-14
9“And the patriarchs, mjealous of Joseph, nsold him into Egypt; but oGod was with him 10and rescued him out of all his afflictions and pgave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, qwho made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. 11Now rthere came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. 12 sBut when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. 13And ton the second visit uJoseph made himself known to his brothers, and vJoseph’s family became known to Pharaoh. 14And wJoseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, xseventy-five persons in all.
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