Genesis 50:16
And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- mandaverunt ei dicentes : Pater tuus præcepit nobis antequam moreretur,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ παρεγένοντο πρὸς Ἰωσὴφ λέγοντες Ὁ πατήρ σου ὥρκισεν πρὸ τοῦ τελευτῆσαι αὐτὸν λέγων
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְצַוּ֕וּ אֶל יוֹסֵ֖ף לֵאמֹ֑ר אָבִ֣יךָ צִוָּ֔ה לִפְנֵ֥י מוֹת֖וֹ לֵאמֹֽר
Haydock's commentary
A message; perhaps by Benjamin. (Menochius)
They hope thus to obtain pardon for the sake of their deceased father, and for the sake of their common God.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.