‏ Genesis 45:1-5

could not Gen 43:30-31; Isa 42:14; Jer 20:9

Cause 2Sam 1:20; Matt 18:15; Acts 10:41; 1Cor 13:5

wept aloud Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping, "This," says Sir J. Chardin, "is exactly the genius of the people of Asia; their sentiments of joy or grief are properly transports, and their transports are ungoverned, excessive, and truly outrageous. When anyone returns from a long journey or dies, his family burst into cries that may be heard twenty doors off; and this is renewed at different times, and continues many days, according to the vigour of the passion. Sometimes they cease all at once, and then begin as suddenly, with a greater shrillness and loudness than one could easily imagine." Num 14:1; Ruth 1:9; 2Kgs 20:3; Acts 20:37

I am Joseph Matt 14:27; Acts 7:13, Acts 9:5

for they Job 4:5, Job 23:15; Zech 12:10; Matt 14:26; Mark 6:50; Luke 5:8, Luke 24:37-38; Rev 1:7

troubled or, terrified

I am Joseph Gen 37:28, Gen 50:18; Matt 14:27; Acts 9:5

be not grieved Isa 40:1-2; Luke 23:34; 2Cor 2:7, 2Cor 2:11

nor angry with yourselves Heb. neither let there be anger in your eyes

God Gen 45:7-8, Gen 47:25, Gen 50:20; 1Sam 1:19; 2Sam 12:12, 2Sam 16:10-12, 2Sam 17:14; Job 1:21; Ps 105:16-17; Acts 2:23-24, Acts 4:24-28, Acts 7:9-15

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