“And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,”
So they sent word to Joseph, saying: your father left these instructions before he died. The invented instruction from their father — there is no record of Jacob giving this instruction — is the brothers' attempt to protect themselves using the authority of the dead patriarch. The application: the appeal to an authority who can no longer be verified is the appeal of people who do not yet trust the forgiveness that was directly given.
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