Genesis 45

¹Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried , Make everyone go out from me. So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers .

²And he wept aloud , so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.

³And Joseph said to his brothers , I am Joseph ! Is my father still alive ? But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence .

⁴So Joseph said to his brothers , Come near to me, please . And they came near . And he said , I am your brother , Joseph , whom you sold into Egypt .

⁵And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here , for God sent me before you to preserve life .

⁶For the famine has been in the land these two years , and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest .

⁷And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth , and to keep alive for you many survivors .

⁸So it was not you who sent me here , but God . He has made me a father to Pharaoh , and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt .

⁹Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph , God has made me lord of all Egypt . Come down to me; do not tarry .

¹⁰You shall dwell in the land of Goshen , and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children , and your flocks , your herds , and all that you have.

¹¹There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household , and all that you have, do not come to poverty .

¹²And now your eyes see , and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

¹³You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt , and of all that you have seen . Hurry and bring my father down here .

¹⁴Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept , and Benjamin wept upon his neck .

¹⁵And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.

¹⁶When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house , Joseph’s brothers have come , it pleased Pharaoh and his servants .

¹⁷And Pharaoh said to Joseph , Say to your brothers , Do this : load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan ,

¹⁸and take your father and your households , and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt , and you shall eat the fat of the land .

¹⁹And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, Do this : take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives , and bring your father , and come .

²⁰Have no concern for your goods , for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.

²¹The sons of Israel did so : and Joseph gave them wagons , according to the command of Pharaoh , and gave them provisions for the journey .

²²To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes , but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes .

²³To his father he sent as follows : ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt , and ten female donkeys loaded with grain , bread , and provision for his father on the journey .

²⁴Then he sent his brothers away , and as they departed , he said to them, Do not quarrel on the way .

²⁵So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob .

²⁶And they told him, Joseph is still alive , and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt . And his heart became numb , for he did not believe them.

²⁷But when they told him all the words of Joseph , which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived .

²⁸And Israel said , It is enough ; Joseph my son is still alive . I will go and see him before I die .