Genesis 50:17-18

God's Good Purposes

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 _f the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. ¹⁸ His brothers also came and _g fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."

1. Cross References
   Genesis 49:25
   By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 37:7
   Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.
   Genesis 37:10
   But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?