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Joseph Sends for Jacob

¹ Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he called out, "Have everyone go out from me." So there ^(F1)was no man with him ^(C1)when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.^2 (C1)Then he ^(F1)wept loudly. And the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.³ Then Joseph said to his brothers, "^(C1)I am Joseph! ^(C2)Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for ^(C3)they were terrified at his presence.

⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come near to me." And they came near. And he said, "I am Joseph, your brother, whom you ^(C1)sold into Egypt.⁵ "So now do not be grieved or angry ^(F1)with yourselves because ^(C1)you sold me here, for ^(C2)God sent me before you to preserve life.⁶ "For the famine has been in the land ^(C1)these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.⁷ "^(C1)So God sent me before you to establish for you a remnant in the earth and to keep you alive for a great remnant of survivors.⁸ "So now, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has set me as a ^(C1)father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.⁹ "Hurry and go up to my father, and ^(C1)say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, "God has set me as lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.¹⁰ "And you shall ^(F1)live in the land of ^(C1)Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.¹¹ "There I will also ^(C1)provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, lest you and your household and all that you have be impoverished."'¹² "And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which is speaking to you.¹³ "So you must tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and all that you have seen; and you must hurry and ^(C1)bring my father down here."¹⁴ Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and ^(C1)wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.¹⁵ He kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

¹⁶ Now ^(C1)the ^(F1)news was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." And it was good in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants.¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and ^(F1)go to the land of Canaan,¹⁸ and take your father and your households and come to me, and ^(C1)I will give you the ^(F1)best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'¹⁹ "Now you are commanded, 'Do this: ^(F1)take ^(C1)wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come.²⁰ 'Now do not ^(F1)concern yourselves with your goods, for the ^(F2)best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

²¹ Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them ^(C1)wagons according to the ^(F1)command of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey.²² To ^(F1)each of them he gave ^(C1)changes of garments, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and ^(C2)five changes of garments.²³ Now to his father he sent ^(F1)as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the ^(F2)best things of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and sustenance for his father ^(F3)on the journey.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them, "Do not be stirred up on the journey."²⁵ Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.²⁶ And they told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." But ^(F1)his heart was stunned, for ^(C1)he did not believe them.²⁷ Yet they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and he saw the ^(C1)wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him. Then the spirit of their father Jacob revived.²⁸ And Israel said, "It is enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."