Genesis 45:1-7 ▼

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.