³ Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God ^(A)who answers me in the day of my distress and ^(B)has been with me wherever I have gone.”

¹⁷ ‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of ^(A)the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.