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Genesis 50:21 KJV
Genesis · chapter 50 · verse 21
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.Genesis 50:21 · King James Version
Genesis 50:21 in context
19And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
21Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- comfortednâchamproperly, to sighH5162 →
- nourishkûwlproperly, to keep inH3557 →
- spakedâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- fearyârêʼto fearH3372 →
- onesṭapha familyH2945 →
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We have here the settling of a good correspondence between Joseph and his brethren, now that their father was dead. Joseph was at court, in the royal city; his brethren were in Goshen, remote in the country;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-21