◄ Genesis 50:18 ►
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Good News Translation
Then his brothers themselves came and bowed down before him. "Here we are before you as your slaves," they said.

New Revised Standard Version
Then his brothers also wept, fell down before him, and said, “We are here as your slaves.”

Contemporary English Version
Right then, Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to the ground in front of him and said, "We are your slaves."

New American Bible
Then his brothers also proceeded to fling themselves down before him and said, “We are your slaves!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.

fell.

Genesis 27:29 And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.

Genesis 37:7-11 I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf. . . .

Genesis 42:6 And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,

Genesis 44:14 And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down before him on the ground.

Genesis 45:3 And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: Is my father yet living? His brethren could not answer him, being struck with exceeding great fear.

Context
Joseph Comforts His Brothers
…17That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept. 18And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.19And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?…
Cross References
Genesis 37:8
His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

Genesis 41:43
And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.

Genesis 50:17
That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

Genesis 50:19
And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?

Genesis 50:17
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