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Genesis 46:30

Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

Genesis 46:30 · World English Bible

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Genesis 46:30 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”

NHEB New Heart English Bible

Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

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In context

27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’

33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’

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