“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.””
Genesis 50:15
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Connection with Esau's grudge
The Hebrew for bears a grudge here is satam, the word used when Esau held a grudge against Jacob (Genesis 27:41). Genesis comes back to it at the very end, as Joseph's brothers fear the same hostility from the brother they wronged.
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