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Genesis 50:15

And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

KJV

Quo mortuo, timentes fratres ejus, et mutuo colloquentes : Ne forte memor sit injuriæ quam passus est, et reddat nobis omne malum quod fecimus,

Vulgate

ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ Ἰωσὴφ ὅτι τέθνηκεν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῶν εἶπαν Μή ποτε μνησικακήσῃ ἡμῖν Ἰωσήφ, καὶ ἀνταπόδομα ἀνταποδῷ ἡμῖν πάντα τὰ κακὰ ἃ ἐνεδειξάμεθα αὐτῷ.

LXX

And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

ASV

וַ/יִּרְא֤וּ אֲחֵֽי יוֹסֵף֙ כִּי מֵ֣ת אֲבִי/הֶ֔ם וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ ל֥וּ יִשְׂטְמֵ֖/נוּ יוֹסֵ֑ף וְ/הָשֵׁ֤ב יָשִׁיב֙ לָ֔/נוּ אֵ֚ת כָּל הָ֣/רָעָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר גָּמַ֖לְנוּ אֹתֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In this verse

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
ו
v
noun · 629×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
יוֹסֵ֖ף
yvsp
proper_noun · 213×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ל֥וּ
lv
conjunction · 25×
נִי
ny
verb · 34×
נִי
ny
verb · 6×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 7:9 — And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
  • Gen 27:41 — And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
  • Gen 42:21 — And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
  • Job 15:21 — A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
  • Lev 26:36 — And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from
  • Prov 19:11 — The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
  • Prov 28:1 — The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
  • Ps 14:5 — There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
  • Ps 53:5 — There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.