Genesis 45:4-8 ▼

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.

8 |Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.