Quotes about Family

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”

‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,

And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”