So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave these instructions before he died:

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

After these things Joseph was told, “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.

The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

and the Lord stood at its top. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.