16 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died:
17 ‘Say to Joseph, “I beg you, forgive the transgressions of your brothers and their sin. For they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please forgive the transgressions of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18 Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face and said, “We are your servants.”
19 Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20 But as for you, you intended to harm me, but God intended it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many lives.
21 So now, do not fear. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.