Old Testament · Law

Genesis chapter 45

Joseph couldn’t any longer in front of everyone standing around him. He shouted, “Get everyone out of here!” So no one else was in the room when Joseph revealed who he was to his brothers.He that the Egyptians heard him, and word reached Pharaoh’s household.Joseph said to his brothers, “. Is my father still alive?” But his brothers couldn’t answer him -- they were by what was happening.Joseph said to his brothers, “ to me.” They came closer. He said, “I am your brother Joseph -- the one you into Egypt.But now, don’t be distressed and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because sent me ahead of you to .The famine has been in the land for two years now, and there are still five more years where there won’t be any .Elohim sent me ahead of you to make sure you survive on the earth -- to keep you alive as a great of people who would .So it wasn’t really you who sent me here -- it was Elohim. He made me , master over his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.Hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: Elohim has made me ruler over all of Egypt. Come down to me -- don’t delay.You’ll live in the region of , where you’ll be close to me -- you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you own.I’ll there, because there are still five years of famine to come. Otherwise you, your household, and everything you have will end up with nothing.’You can see for yourselves -- and my brother Benjamin can see too -- that it’s .Tell my father about all the I have in Egypt and everything you’ve seen. And hurry -- bring my father down here!”Then he and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck too.He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After that, his brothers .When the news reached ’s palace that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his officials were pleased.Pharaoh told Joseph, “Say to your brothers: ‘Here’s what to do -- load up your animals and head back to the land of Canaan.Get your father and your families and come back to me. I’ll give you the best land in Egypt, and you’ll eat from .’And you are commanded to tell them: ‘Do this -- take from Egypt for your little ones and your wives. Bring your father and come., because the best of everything in the land of Egypt is yours.’”The did exactly that. Joseph gave them wagons, just as Pharaoh had ordered, and he gave them supplies for the journey.He gave each of them a set of new clothes, but to Benjamin he gave and five .And to his father he sent this: ten donkeys loaded with , and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and food for the journey.Then he sent his brothers off, and as they left he said to them, “!”So they from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.They told him, “Joseph is still alive! And he’s the ruler over all the land of Egypt!” Jacob -- he couldn’t believe them.But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, their father Jacob’s . said, “! My son Joseph is still alive. I’ll go see him before I die.”