Your in the right place! Genesis 50:15-20

Genesis 50:15-20

15 When 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.” 16 So 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 the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

19 But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?

20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

21 So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ge 50:15–21.

The life of Joseph is hall marked by a coat of many colours Genesis 37:3 “Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.”

Jospeh was not the BABY SON of Jacob, but the son which took care of Jacob in his old age. The sons of Jacob disliked the son which was favored.

What is the birth order of Jacob’s thirteen children?

Jacob had thirteen children, twelve sons and one daughter, by four different women. These children are important in biblical history, as the twelve sons of Jacob became the heads of the twelve tribes. The account of the birth of Jacob’s children is found in Genesis 29—30, 35. 1) Reuben was Jacob’s firstborn. He was the son of Leah, Jacob’s first wife. 2) Simeon was next, and he was also a son of Leah. 3) Levi was the third of Jacob and Leah’s children. 4) Judah was the next. After bearing Judah, Leah stopped bearing children for a time. 5) Dan was born to Jacob by Bilhah, his wife Rachel’s handmaid. It was common practice in that day for a barren wife to give her servant to her husband to bear children in her name. 6) Naphtali was the next child, also through Bilhah. 7) Gad was number seven. He was the child of Jacob and Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah. 8) Asher was next. He was the second son of Zilpah. 9) Issachar was another son granted to Leah. 10) Zebulun was the next child, Leah’s sixth. 11) Dinah was Jacob’s only daughter, and her mother was Leah. 12) Joseph was Jacob’s twelfth child and Rachel’s first, as God opened her womb and enabled her to conceive. 13) Benjamin was Jacob’s last child. His mother, Rachel, who died during labor, named him Ben-Oni, which means “son of my trouble,” but Jacob renamed him Benjamin, which means “son of my right hand.” So the first four of Jacob’s children belonged to Leah, and she later bore him two more sons and a daughter—seven children total. The last two of Jacob’s children belonged to Rachel. In between were two sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s maid) and two sons of Zilpah (Leah’s maid).

The Life of Jospeh

Jospeh is born next to the last son, mother rachel.

Joseph Dream, Gensis

Joseph Dream

Joseph Coat

Jospeh Betrayed