16. So they sent word to Joseph saying, “Your father commanded us before his death, saying,
17. “Thus you must say to Joseph, ‘O, please now forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.’ So now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18. Then his brothers went also and fell before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19. Then Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20. As for you, you planned evil against me, but God planned it for good, in order to do this—to keep many people alive—as it is today.
21. 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.
22. So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
23. And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. Moreover, the children of Makir, son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.
24. And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
25. Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here.”
26. So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.