NASB
"So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father charged before he died, saying,"
— Genesis 50:16, NASB
“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 to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!"
So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father charged before he died, saying,
'Thus you shall say to Joseph, "Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong."' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."
But Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in God's place?