Genesis Chapter 45
45:1 | Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. |
45:2 | And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the ![]() |
45:3 | And Joseph said unto his brethren, I [am] Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not ![]() |
45:4 | And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. |
45:5 | Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. |
45:6 | For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest. |
45:7 | And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the ![]() ![]() |
45:8 | So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his ![]() |
45:9 | Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: |
45:10 | And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children' children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: |
45:11 | And there will I nourish thee; for yet [there are] five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. |
45:12 | And, behold, your eyes ![]() |
45:13 | And ye shall tell my father of all my ![]() |
45:14 | And he fell upon his brother Benjamin' neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. |
45:15 | Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him. |
45:16 | And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh' ![]() |
45:17 | And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This ![]() |
45:18 | And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. |
45:19 | Now thou ![]() ![]() |
45:20 | Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours. |
45:21 | And the children of ![]() |
45:22 | To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver, and five changes of raiment. |
45:23 | And to his father he sent after this [manner]; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with ![]() ![]() ![]() |
45:24 | So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, ![]() |
45:25 | And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, |
45:26 | And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob' heart fainted, for he believed them not. |
45:27 | And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the ![]() |
45:28 | And ![]() ![]() |