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Genesis 45:1 (show verse)

Then Joseph could not control 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 brothers.

Genesis 45:2 (show verse)

And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Genesis 45:3 (show verse)

And Joseph said unto his brothers, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

Genesis 45:4 (show verse)

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

Genesis 45:5 (show verse)

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 45:6 (show verse)

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

Genesis 45:7 (show verse)

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:8 (show verse)

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 a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:9 (show verse)

Haste you, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

Genesis 45:10 (show verse)

And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near unto me, you, and your children, and your children's children, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have:

Genesis 45:11 (show verse)

And there will I nourish you; for yet there are five years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.

Genesis 45:12 (show verse)

And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks unto you.

Genesis 45:13 (show verse)

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.

Genesis 45:14 (show verse)

And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Genesis 45:15 (show verse)

Moreover he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them: and after that his brothers talked with him.

Genesis 45:16 (show verse)

And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

Genesis 45:17 (show verse)

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto your brothers, This do you; load your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

Genesis 45:18 (show verse)

And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

Genesis 45:19 (show verse)

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.

Genesis 45:20 (show verse)

Also regard not your goods; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

Genesis 45:21 (show verse)

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.
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Genesis 45:22 (show verse)

To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of clothing.

Genesis 45:23 (show verse)

And to his father he sent after this manner; ten donkeys laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-donkeys laden with grain and bread and food for his father by the way.

Genesis 45:24 (show verse)

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that you fall not out by the way.

Genesis 45:25 (show verse)

And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
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Genesis 45:26 (show verse)

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.

Genesis 45:27 (show verse)

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:

Genesis 45:28 (show verse)

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