Genesis 45:1-7 ▼

1 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, |Have everyone go out from me.| So there was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

2 He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard [it], and the household of Pharaoh heard [of it].

3 Then 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.

4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, |Please come closer to me.| And they came closer. And he said, |I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

5 |Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because 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 are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

7 |God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.