Gen 45
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Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood before him; and he
cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph
made himself known to his brethren.
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And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
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And Joseph said to his brethren, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brethren
could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
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And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near.
And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
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And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God
did send me before you to preserve life.
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For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years,
in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
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And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you
alive by a great deliverance.
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So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh,
and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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Haste you, 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, tarry not;
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and you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you, and your
children, and your children`s children, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that
you have:
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and there will I nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come
to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.
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And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth
that speaks to you.
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And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen:
and you shall haste and bring down my father here.
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And he fell upon his brother Benjamin`s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his
neck.
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And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked
with him.
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And its report was heard in Pharaoh`s house, saying, Joseph`s brethren are
come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brethren, This do you: lade your beasts, and
go, get you to the land of Canaan;
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and take your father and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the
good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.
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Now you are commanded, this do you: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your
little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
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And the sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment
of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
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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.
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And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses laden with the good things
of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with grain and bread and provision for his father
by the way.
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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said to them, See that you
fall not out by the way.
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And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.
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And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land
of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.
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And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them: and when he
saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father
revived:
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and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before
I die.