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Then
Joseph could not refrain himself before all them
that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man
to go out from me. And there stood no man with
him, while Joseph made himself known unto his
brethren.
02 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and
the house of Pharaoh heard.
03 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am
Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren
could not answer him; for they were troubled at
his presence.
04 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come
near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And
he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold
into Egypt.
05 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry
with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God
did send me before you to preserve life.
06 For these two years hath the famine been
in the land: and yet there are five years, in the
which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
07 And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth, and to save your
lives by a great deliverance.
08 So now it was not you that sent me
hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to
Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt.
09 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and
say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath
made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me,
tarry not:
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of
Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and
thy children, and thy children's children, and
thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou
hast:
11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet
there are five years of famine; lest thou, and
thy household, and all that thou hast, come to
poverty.
12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes
of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that
speaketh unto you.
13 And ye shall tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and
ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's
neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
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15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and
wept upon them: and after that his brethren
talked with him.
16 And the fame thereof was heard in
Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are
come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his
servants.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto
thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and
go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
18 And take your father and your
households, and come unto me: and I will give you
the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat
the fat of the land.
19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take
you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your
little ones, and for your wives, and bring your
father, and come.
20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good
of all the land of Egypt is your's.
21 And the children of Israel did so: and
Joseph gave them wagons, according to the
commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision
for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man changes
of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred
pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
23 And to his father he sent after this
manner; ten asses laden with the good things of
Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and
bread and meat for his father by the way.
24 So he sent his brethren away, and they
departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall
not out by the way.
25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came
into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet
alive, and he is governor over all the land of
Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed
them not.
27 And they told him all the words of
Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he
saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry
him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my
son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I
die.
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