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Joseph Deals Kindly with His Brothers

¹ Then Joseph could not control himself in front of everyone standing before him, and he shouted, "Have everyone leave me!" So there ^(F1)was no one with him ^(C1)when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.² Then ^(C1)he ^(F1)wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard about it.³ And 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 in his presence.

⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come ^(F1)closer to me." And they came ^(F1)closer. And he said, "I am your brother Joseph, whom you ^(C1)sold to Egypt.⁵ "Now do not be grieved or angry ^(F1)with yourselves because ^(C1)you sold me here, for ^(C2)God sent me ahead of you ^(F2)to save lives.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 "So ^(C1)God sent me ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on the earth, and to ^(F1)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 ^(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, 'This is what your son Joseph says: "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.¹⁰ "For you shall live in the land of ^(C1)Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your ^(F1)grandchildren, 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, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished."'¹² "Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which is speaking to you.¹³ "Now you must tell my father of all my splendor 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 And he kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

¹⁶ Now when ^(C1)the ^(F1)news was heard in Pharaoh's house ^">(F2)that Joseph's brothers had come, it ^(F3)pleased Pharaoh and his servants.¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your livestock 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 ordered, '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 'And do not ^(F1)concern yourselves with your property, 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 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 And to his father he sent ^(F1)the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the ^(F2)best things of Egypt, ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and sustenance for his father ^(F3)on the journey.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and ^(F1)as they departed, he said to them, "Do not ^(F2)quarrel 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)he was stunned, for ^(C1)he did not believe them.²⁷ When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the ^(C1)wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of their father Jacob revived.²⁸ Then Israel said, "It is enough; my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."