Verse 20
Genesis 50:20
Bible in Basic English
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As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God (Elohim) has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אַתֶּ֕ם חֲשַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָלַ֖/י רָעָ֑ה אֱלֹהִים֙ חֲשָׁבָ֣/הּ לְ/טֹבָ֔ה לְמַ֗עַן עֲשֹׂ֛ה כַּ/יּ֥וֹם הַ/זֶּ֖ה לְ/הַחֲיֹ֥ת עַם רָֽב
English Translation
And you thought evil against me; God intended it for good in order to do as it is this day, to keep a numerous people alive.
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Chapter 50 Context
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And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.
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And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body re...
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And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the...
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And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you h...
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My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made read...
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And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.
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So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of...
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And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and t...
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And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.
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And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last h...
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And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief,...
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So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:
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For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Mac...
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And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, wen...
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Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's h...
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So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,
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You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did t...
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Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.
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And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God (Elohim)?
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As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God (Elohim) has given a happy outcome, the salva...
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So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with...
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Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were...
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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Ma...
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God (Elohim) will keep you in m...
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Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God (Elohim) will certainly give effec...
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So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he...
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