Genesis 50:15

Plain English Version

After Jacob died, Joseph’s brothers started to worry, and they said to each other, “When our father was alive, Joseph was good to us. But maybe Joseph is still angry about all those bad things that we did to him. Now our father is dead, maybe Joseph will do payback to us.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:18

But Joseph was still a long way away, and his brothers saw him coming. So they talked quickly to each other and made a plan to kill him.

Genesis 37:28

So when that Midian mob got near to them, Joseph’s brothers pulled Joseph out of that hole, and they sold him to the Midian mob for 20 pieces of silver money. Then the Midian mob took Joseph to Egypt country.

Genesis 42:17

Then Joseph put his brothers in jail, and they stayed there for 3 days.

Genesis 50:14

That’s the story about how Joseph buried his father. After that, Joseph went back to Egypt country with his brothers, and with everybody else that came to Canaan country with him.

Genesis 50:16

So Joseph’s brothers sent a message to Joseph. This is what they said in that message, “Joseph, our father talked to us before he died.

Romans 2:15

They show that God wrote his law inside them. They feel bad whenever they do something that is wrong, but sometimes they do something that is right, and it makes them feel good.