“Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.”
Genesis 50:21
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Connection with Esau's grudge
Reassured here is nacham, the same comfort verb used when Esau consoled himself by plotting to kill Jacob (Genesis 27:42). Joseph's brothers feared he would hold a grudge, as Esau had, and Joseph spoke kindly to them.
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Genesis 50:21 uses it of Joseph, who "reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them" (Genesis 50:21), and Ruth used it of Boaz: "you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant" (Ruth 2:13). God used the same phrase of Himself in Hosea, and He sent the prophets with it: "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem" (Isaiah 40:2).
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