Quotes about Forgiveness
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
— Genesis 27:45
But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
— Genesis 33:3
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
— Genesis 33:4
Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.
— Genesis 34:5
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
— Genesis 37:12
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.
— Genesis 37:24
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
— Genesis 38:24
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
— Genesis 38:26
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
— Genesis 41:51
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
— Genesis 42:3
Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
— Genesis 42:6
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
— Genesis 42:7