Genesis 50:16

Thy father did command. Joseph’s brothers were now filled with alarm, fearing that he might avenge himself for their cruelty. They thought that Joseph’s tender love for his aged father might have restrained him from taking revenge so long as he lived. Literally, “they charged Joseph,” meaning they sent one of their number, possibly Benjamin, to appeal to Joseph to honor the desire expressed by their father before his death and to implore forgiveness. There is no reason for regarding the appeal to their father’s wish as a mere pretense. The fact that no reference was made to their sin by Jacob in his blessings proves that he, as their father, had forgiven the sin of his sons, in view of the fact that the grace of God had made their crime the means of his family’s salvation.