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And he turned himself away from them and wept.

GENESIS 42:24

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Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out

GENESIS 45:1

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And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it.

GENESIS 45:2

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"But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

GENESIS 45:5

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"And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

GENESIS 45:7

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Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this was the Ahasuerus who reigned over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India to Ethiopia),

ESTHER 1:1

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"For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

ESTHER 4:14

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"Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"

ESTHER 4:16