“So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.”
This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly. Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father. When their message came to him, Joseph wept. The weeping of Joseph at the brothers' appeal — the fifth recorded weeping, or perhaps the sixth depending on the count — is the weeping of the person who discovers that his forgiveness has not yet fully landed. The application: the forgiveness given completely can still be doubted by the ones who received it. Joseph weeps at the evidence that the brothers are still afraid.
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