American King James Version
"And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Your father did command before he died, saying, "
— Genesis 50:16, American King James Version
“And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,”
“And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, ”
“They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,”
“So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died:”
“And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,”
“So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,”
“And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,”
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burial plot of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. ¶
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. ¶
And when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him.
And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Your father did command before he died, saying,
So shall you say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your brothers, and their sin; for they did to you evil: and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
And his brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be your servants.
And Joseph said to them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?