Genesis 45:4-7 ▼

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 to Egypt.

5 Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to save lives.

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 So God sent me ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.