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Isn't this that in which my lord drinks, and whereby he indeed uses it for magic? you have done evil in so doing.

And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my slave but as for you, you get up in peace to your father.

Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh, my lord, let your slave, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your slave; for you are even as Pharaoh.

And we said to my lord, The lad can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

And we said, We can't go down: if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother is with us.

For your slave became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I don't bring him to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad is not with me? Or else, I will see the evil that shall come on my father.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

And now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God sent me before you to preserve life.

For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

and there I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; or else you will come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.

Now you are commanded, this you do: you take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

Also don't regard your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

And the sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

And to his father he sent after this manner: ten donkeys laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-donkeys laden with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.

And he said, I am God, the God of your father: don't be afraid to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation:

and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

that you shall say, Your slaves have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is disgusting to the Egyptians.

And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land we have come; for there is no pasture for your slaves' flocks; for the famine is intense in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your slaves dwell in the land of Goshen.