Genesis 50 Summary
Genesis 50 closes the book with the burial of Jacob and Joseph's stunning declaration that what his brothers meant for evil, God meant for good — Genesis's last word on God's hidden providence.
Joseph honors his father with a great mourning procession back to Canaan to be buried. Then his brothers, still afraid Joseph might now repay them for selling him into slavery, send word and fall before him pleading for mercy.
Joseph weeps, and gives them perhaps the most theologically rich line in the book: 'You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive.' The book of beginnings ends with God's redeeming hand revealed in retrospect.
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