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Genesis 50:21
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Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.
So don't be afraid. I will take care of you and your children." So Joseph comforted his brothers and spoke kind words to them.
So now, don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children." Then he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.
"So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and support you and your little ones." So he comforted them [giving them encouragement and hope] and spoke [with kindness] to their hearts.
"So therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones." So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Feare not nowe therefore, I will nourish you, and your children: and hee comforted them, and spake kindly vnto them.
So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones." And he comforted them and spoke to their heart.
Don't be afraid! I will take care of you and your children." After Joseph said this, his brothers felt much better.
(vii) So don't be afraid — I will provide for you and your little ones." In this way he comforted them, speaking kindly to them.
And now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to them.
So don't be afraid. I will take care of you and your children." And so Joseph said kind things to his brothers, and this made them feel better.
So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Now therefore do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
You have nothing to fear. I will take care of you and your children." So he reassured them with kind words that touched their hearts.
Therefore don’t be afraid. I will take care of you and your children.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
And now do not fear; I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke to their hearts.
Therfore be not ye now afrayed, I wyl care for you and youre children. And he comforted them, and spake louyngly vnto them.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.
Feare not therefore, nowe I wyll noryshe you and your chyldren. And he comforted them, and spake kyndly vnto them.
Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.' And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
Now therefore feare yee not: I will nourish you, and your litle ones. And hee comforted them, and spake kindly vnto them.
And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.
nyle ye drede, Y schal fede you and youre litle children. And he coumfortide hem, and spak swetli, and liytly;
and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.
Now therefore don't be afraid: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
No, don't be afraid. I will continue to take care of you and your children." So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them.
So do not be afraid. I will take care of you and your little ones." He gave them comfort and words of kindness.
So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones." In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.
Now, therefore do not fear! I will nourish you and your little ones. Thus he consoled them, and spake unto their heart.
Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.
So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he reassured them and comforted them.
"So therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones." So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I will nourish: Genesis 45:10, Genesis 45:11, Genesis 47:12, Matthew 5:44, Matthew 6:14, Romans 12:20, Romans 12:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:15, 1 Peter 3:9
kindly unto them: Heb. to their hearts, Genesis 34:3, Isaiah 40:2, *marg.
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:8 - also our Genesis 49:24 - the shepherd Judges 19:3 - speak
Cross-References
His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman.
Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with bread, according to the number in their families.
Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, [fn] which is beyond the Jordan.
But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones." And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
"Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD's hand Double for all her sins."
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, [fn]
"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore, fear ye not,.... Which, is repeated to dispossess them of every fear they might entertain of him on any account whatever:
I will nourish you, and your little ones; provide food for them, and their families, not only for themselves and their sons, now grown up, but their grandchildren and even the youngest and latest of their families should share in his favours:
and he comforted them, and spake kindly to them; even "to their heart" w; such things as were quite pleasing and agreeable to them, served to banish their fears, revive their spirits, and afford comfort to them. Just so God and Christ do with backsliding sinners, and would have done with his own people by his servants; see Isaiah 40:1.
w ×¢× ××× "ad cor eorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- The Burial of Jacob
10. ××× 'aÌtÌ£aÌd Atad, âthe buck-thorn.â
11. ×צר×× ××× 'aÌbeÌl-mıÌtsrayıÌm, Abel-Mitsraim, âmourning of Mizraim,â or meadow of Mizraim.
This chapter records the burial of Jacob and the death of Joseph, and so completes the history of the chosen family, and the third bible for the instruction of man.
Genesis 50:1-3
After the natural outburst of sorrow for his deceased parent, Joseph gave orders to embalm the body, according to the custom of Egypt. âHis servants, the physicians.â As the grand vizier of Egypt, he has physicians in his retinue. The classes and functions of the physicians in Egypt may be learned from Herodotus (ii. 81-86). There were special physicians for each disease; and the embalmers formed a class by themselves. âForty daysâ were employed in the process of embalming; âseventy days,â including the forty, were devoted to mourning for the dead. Herodotus mentions this number as the period of embalming. Diodorus (i. 91) assigns upwards of thirty days to the process. It is probable that the actual process was continued for forty days, and that the body lay in natron for the remaining thirty days of mourning. See Hengstenbergâs B. B. Mos. u. Aeg., and Rawlinsonâs Herodotus.
Genesis 50:4-6
Joseph, by means of Pharaohâs courtiers, not in person, because he was a mourner, applies for leave to bury his father in the land of Kenaan, according to his oath. This leave is freely and fully allowed.
Genesis 50:7-14
The funeral procession is now described. âAll the servants of Pharaoh.â The highest honor is conferred on Jacob for Josephâs sake. âThe elders of Pharaoh, and all the elders of the land of Mizraim.â The court and state officials are here separately specified. âAll the house.â Not only the heads, but all the sons and servants that are able to go. Chariots and horsemen accompany them as a guard on the way. âThe threshing-floor of Atari, or of the buck-thorn.â This is said to be beyond Jordan. Deterred, probably, by some difficulty in the direct route, they seem to have gone round by the east side of the Salt Sea. âA mourning of seven days.â This is a last sad farewell to the departed patriarch. Abel-Mizraim. This name, like many in the East, has a double meaning. The word Abel no doubt at first meant mourning, though the name would be used by many, ignorant of its origin, in the sense of a meadow. âHis sons carried him.â The main body of the procession seems to have halted beyond the Jordan, and awaited the return of the immediate relatives, who conveyed the body to its last resting-place. The whole company then returned together to Egypt.
Genesis 50:15-21
His brethren supplicate Joseph for forgiveness. âThey sent unto Joseph,â commissioned one of their number to speak to him. now that our common father has given us this command. âAnd Joseph weptâ at the distress and doubt of his brothers. He no doubt summons them before him, when they fall down before him entreating his forgiveness. Joseph removes their fears. âAm I in Godâs stead?â that I should take the law into my own hands, and take revenge. God has already judged them, and moreover turned their sinful deed into a blessing. He assures them of his brotherly kindness toward them.
Genesis 50:22-26
The biography of Joseph is now completed. âThe children of the third generationâ - the grandsons of grandsons in the line of Ephraim. We have here an explicit proof that an interval of about twenty years between the births of the father and that of his first-born was not unusual during the lifetime of Joseph. âAnd Joseph took an oath.â He thus expressed his unwavering confidence in the return of the sons of Israel to the land of promise. âGod will surely visit.â He was embalmed and put in a coffin, and so kept by his descendants, as was not unusual in Egypt. And on the return of the sons of Israel from Egypt they kept their oath to Joseph Exodus 13:19, and buried his bones in Shekem Joshua 24:32.
The sacred writer here takes leave of the chosen family, and closes the bible of the sons of Israel. It is truly a wonderful book. It lifts the veil of mystery that hangs over the present condition of the human race. It records the origin and fall of man, and thus explains the co-existence of moral evil and a moral sense, and the hereditary memory of God and judgment in the soul of man. It records the cause and mode of the confusion of tongues, and thus explains the concomitance of the unity of the race and the specific diversity of mode or form in human speech. It records the call of Abraham, and thus accounts for the preservation of the knowledge of God and his mercy in one section of the human race, and the corruption or loss of it in all the rest. We need scarcely remark that the six daysâ creation accounts for the present state of nature. It thus solves the fundamental questions of physics, ethics, philology, and theology for the race of Adam. It notes the primitive relation of man to God, and marks the three great stages of human development that came in with Adam, Noah, and Abraham. It points out the three forms of sin that usher in these stages - the fall of Adam, the intermarriage of the sons of God with the daughters of men, and the building of the tower of Babel. It gradually unfolds the purpose and method of grace to the returning penitent through a Deliverer who is successively announced as the seed of the woman, of Shem, of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Judah. This is the second Adam, who, when the covenant of works was about to fall to the ground through the failure of the first Adam, undertook to uphold it by fulfilling all its conditions on behalf of those who are the objects of the divine grace.
Hence, the Lord establishes his covenant successively with Adam, Noah, and Abraham; with Adam after the fall tacitly, with Noah expressly, and with both generally as the representatives of the race descending from them; with Abraham especially and instrumentally as the channel through which the blessings of salvation might be at length extended to all the families of the earth. So much of this plan of mercy is revealed from time to time to the human race as comports with the progress they have made in the education of the intellectual, moral, and active faculties. This only authentic epitome of primeval history is worthy of the constant study of intelligent and responsible man.
