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Genesis 50:20

Gen50:1 Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him.Gen50:2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.Gen50:3 Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.Gen50:4 When the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,Gen50:5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”Gen50:6 Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”Gen50:7 So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,Gen50:8 and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.Gen50:9 There also went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.Gen50:10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.Gen50:11 Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore it was named Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.Gen50:12 Thus his sons did for him as he had charged them;Gen50:13 for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.Gen50:14 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.Gen50:15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!”Gen50:16 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father charged before he died, saying,Gen50:17 ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, “Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.Gen50:18 Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”Gen50:19 But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place?20 “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. Gen50:21 “So therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.Gen50:22 Now Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.Gen50:23 Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s sons; also the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.Gen50:24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.”Gen50:25 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here.”Gen50:26 So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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hanna mccown posted Rejoice. (Nov 19, 2009)
“So we can Rejoice Always in everything knowing that God's purposes in our lives are being fulfilled. Even when we suffer we can rejoice that we are not suffering for nothing but for the Glory of God. And we Rejoice. Amen”
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Imoudu Iziokhai posted Walk in the Spirit.. (Oct 05, 2009)
“The life of every believer is the fullness of the Spirit of God through the resurrection of Christ Jesus from the dead bodily and now on the throne of Grace as Lord Almighty. The believer is the power and expression of God's glory here on earth as victors. The believer is the true freedom fighter for souls from slavery to liberty in Christ Jesus.”
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Elsy Abraham posted Amen. (Oct 02, 2009)
“The ways of Our God is so marvellous in our eyes!”
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Natasha Valentine posted Thank you. (Sep 27, 2009)
“God wants to use people for good things. You shouldn't believe any evil things others tell you,for god wants to use it for good.”
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talma brown posted thank you. (Sep 08, 2009)
“This verse was a blessing to come at the time it did”
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Irma Karl posted Evil for Good. (Aug 22, 2009)
“This verse is the medal all us believers wear, a badge of honr for the Lord. How many of us have been hirt, offended, mistreated and misjudged by the world? I dare say everyone in this site knws what I mean. But the truth is, unlike unblievers who turn to addictions, the world for their answer- We KNOW that looking up answers our concerns- We know that we serve amighty God, and that trials and inequities belong to the Lord- just like us that have kids, their pain when someone hurts them makes us upset, and we try to teach our kids to stand up and if things are too hard, we stand for them. Well, I claim this verse for all our Tangle members and our families- that whatever roads we have stumbled upon, whosever hand has hurt us or our loved one- that the source of this evil be abolished and in its place a garden of the fruits of the spirit grow in us- that our ashes will be counted for Gods glory!!”
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Esther Sein posted Above All. (Aug 13, 2009)
“We serve a God of victory.Thank you father cause you are good all the time.”
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patricia coulter posted good from evil. (Aug 03, 2009)
“even unintended evil is used for our good, if only to enable us to have more compassion for others.”
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Charlette luna posted gen 50:20. (Aug 01, 2009)
“This is my family's story. God works all things together for good to thosethat love the Lord and are called according to his puposes. God is so very good.”
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alex froment posted great movies. (Jul 26, 2009)
“this reminds me of slumdog millionaire”