Genesis:45:1-8
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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 .
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And he wept aloud :
and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard .
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And Joseph said unto his brethren ,
I am Joseph ;
doth my father yet live ?
And his brethren could not answer him ;
for they were troubled at his presence .
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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 .
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Now therefore be not grieved ,
nor angry with yourselves ,
that ye sold me hither :
for God did send me before you to preserve life .
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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 .
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And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth ,
and to save your lives by a great deliverance .
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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 house ,
and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt .