Genesis 50:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ So they sent a message to Joseph: “Before our father died, ¹⁷ he told us to ask you, ‘Please forgive the crime your brothers committed when they wronged you.’ Now please forgive us the wrong that we, the servants of your father's God, have done.” Joseph cried when he received this message.

¹⁸ Then his brothers themselves came and bowed down before him. “Here we are before you as your slaves,” they said.