Genesis 45:1-13 ▼

1 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood before him, so he cried out, |Send everyone away from me. |So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

2 And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the house of Pharaoh heard about it.

3 Then Joseph said to his brothers, |I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?| But his brothers couldn’t answer him, for they were terrified at his presence.

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

5 Now do not be upset or angry with yourselves that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

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

7 God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 So now, it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

9 Now hurry and go up to my father and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says,| God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Do not delay.

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

11 There I will provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, otherwise you and your household and all that you have would become destitute.

12 Look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth which is speaking to you.

13 So you must tell my father about all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. But you must hurry and bring my father down here.|