Genesis:45
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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 .
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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 :
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And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen ,
and thou shalt be near unto me ,
thou ,
and thy children ,
and thy children '
s children ,
and thy flocks ,
and thy herds ,
and all that thou hast :
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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 .
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And ,
behold ,
your eyes see ,
and the eyes of my brother Benjamin ,
that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you .
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And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt ,
and of all that ye have seen ;
and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither .
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And he fell upon his brother Benjamin '
s neck ,
and wept ;
and Benjamin wept upon his neck .
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Moreover he kissed all his brethren ,
and wept upon them :
and after that his brethren talked with him .
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And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh '
s house ,
saying ,
Joseph '
s brethren are come :
and it pleased Pharaoh well ,
and his servants .
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,
Say unto thy brethren ,
This do ye ;
lade your beasts ,
and go ,
get you unto the land of Canaan ;
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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 .
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Now thou art commanded ,
this do ye ;
take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones ,
and for your wives ,
and bring your father ,
and come .
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Also regard not your stuff ;
for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours .
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And the children of Israel did so :
and Joseph gave them wagons ,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh ,
and gave them provision for the way .
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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 .
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And to his father he sent after this manner ;
ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt ,
and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way .
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So he sent his brethren away ,
and they departed :
and he said unto them ,
See that ye fall not out by the way .
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And they went up out of Egypt ,
and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father ,
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And told him ,
saying ,
Joseph is yet alive ,
and he is governor over all the land of Egypt .
And Jacob '
s heart fainted ,
for he believed them not .
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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 spirit of Jacob their father revived :
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And Israel said ,
It is enough ;
Joseph my son is yet alive :
I will go and see him before I die .