“Come near to me, please.”

“Do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me into slavery, for God sent me before you to preserve life. God sent me before you to preserve you. It was not you who sent me here, but God.”

“Come and live near me.”

“I will provide for you, so that you do not come to poverty.”

And he kissed all of his abusers and wept upon them. And they talked together.

excerpts from an active and living ancient document [a.k.a. Genesis 45]