Gen. 37:1‑36• 1And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
2These [are] Jacob's generations. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he [was] a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought their evil report to his father.
3And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he [was] son of his old age; and he gave him a coat of many colours.
4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] to his brethren; and they hated him yet more.
6And he said to them, Hear, pray, this dream which I have dreamed.
7And, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the midst of the field; and, behold, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about and bowed down to my sheaf.
8And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed reign over us? or wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet more for his dreams, and for his words.
9And he dreamed yet another dream and told [it] to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars bowed down to me.
10And he told [it] to his father, and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall indeed I and thy mother and thy brethren come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.
12And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
13And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the flock] in Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here [am] I .
14And he said to him, Go, pray, see after thy brethren's welfare and the flocks' welfare; and bring me word again. And he sent him out of the vale of Hebron; and he came to Shechem.
15And a man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
16And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, pray, where they feed.
17And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went to his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
18And they saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him.
19And they said one to another , Behold, this master of dreams cometh.
20And now come, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
21And Reuben heard, and delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not take his life.
22And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this pit that [is] in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him (in order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father).
23And it came to pass, when Joseph was come to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of the colours that [was] on him;
24and they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit [was] empty: [there was] no water in it.
25And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth and balsam and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt.
26And Judah said to his brethren, What profit [is it] if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened.
28And there passed by Midianitish men, merchants; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver [pieces]; and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
29And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
30And he returned to his brethren and said, The child [is] not; and I, whither shall I go?
31And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a buck of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood,
32and they sent the coat of the colours, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son's coat or not.
33And he knew it, and said, [It is] my son's coat: an evil beast hath devoured him; surely Joseph is torn in pieces.
34And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35And all his sons rose up, and all his daughters, to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. And his father wept for him.
36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, chamberlain of Pharaoh, captain of the guard . (Gen. 37:1‑36)
Gen. 40:1‑45:28• 1And it came to pass after these things, the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt, and the baker, offended their lord the king of Egypt.
2And Pharaoh was wroth with his two chamberlains, with the chief of the cup-bearers and with the chief of the bakers;
3and he put them in custody, in the captain of the life-guard's house, into the tower-house, the place where Joseph [was] imprisoned.
4And the captain of the life-guard appointed Joseph to them, and he served them; and they continued for days in custody.
5And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to his dream's interpretation, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt that [were] imprisoned in the tower-house.
6And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and looked on them, and, behold, they [were] sad.
7And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that [were] with him in his lord's house of custody, saying, Why [are] your faces sad today?
8{i}And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me your dreams, I pray you{/i}.
9And the chief of the cup-bearers told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;
10and in the vine [were] three branches; and it [was] as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, its clusters ripened into grapes.
11And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
12And Joseph said to him, This [is] the interpretation of it: the three branches [are] three days.
13Within yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee to thy place; and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his cup-bearer.
14Only have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and deal kindly with me, I pray thee, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
15For indeed I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
16And when the chief of the bakers saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread [were] on my head.
17And in the uppermost basket [there was] all manner of victuals for Pharaoh that the bakers make, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.
18And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation of it: the three baskets [are] three days.
19In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee upon a tree; and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee.
20And it came to pass the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast to all his bondmen. And he lifted up the head of the chief of the cup-bearers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his bondmen.
21And he restored the chief of the cup-bearers to his office of cup-bearer again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
22And he hanged the chief of the bakers, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23Yet the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph but forgot him.
1And it came to pass at the end of two full years , that Pharaoh dreamed; and, behold, he stood by the river.
2And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-looking and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
3And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-looking and lean-fleshed; and they stood by the kine on the bank of the river.
4And the ill-looking and lean-fleshed ate up the seven well-looking and fat kine. And Pharaoh awoke.
5And he slept and dreamed a second time; and, behold, seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, fat and good.
6And, behold, seven ears, thin and parched with the east wind, came up after them.
7And the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream.
8{i}And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none to interpret them to Pharaoh{/i}.
9And the chief-butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I remember my faults this day.
10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, me and the chief-baker.
11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
12And [there was] with us a young man, a Hebrew, servant of the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he interpreted.
13And it came to pass, as he interpreted, so it was: me he restored to mine office, and him he hanged.
14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they hastened his exit [made him run] out of the dungeon; and he shaved, and changed his raiment, and came in to Pharaoh.
15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and [there is] none to interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, thou understandest a dream to interpret it.
16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of a river.
18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine fat-fleshed and fine-looking, and they fed in the reed grass.
19And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-looking, and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
20And the lean and ill-looking kine ate up the first seven fat kine;
21and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had come into their belly, and their look was as at the beginning. And I awoke.
22And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good.
23And, behold, seven ears withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them;
24and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told [it] to the scribes; but [there was] none that could declare it to me.
25And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is] one. What God is about to do he hath declared to Pharaoh.
26The seven good kine [are] seven years; and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one.
27And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears parched with the east wind will be seven years of famine.
28This [is] the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he letteth Pharaoh see.
29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
30And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will consume the land.
31And the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine that followeth; for it [will be] very grievous.
32And for that the dream was doubled to Pharaoh twice, [it is] because the thing [is] established by God, and God will hasten to do it.
33And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34Let Pharaoh do [this]: and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty;
35and let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and keep [it].
36And let the food be a store to the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.
37And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
38And Pharaoh said to his servants, shall we find [one] as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?
39And Pharaoh said to Joseph, since God has made all this known to thee, there is none discreet and wise as thou.
40Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people order themselves: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byss, and put a gold chain about his neck.
43And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
44And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh: and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
46And Joseph [was] thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.
47And in the seven years of plenty the land produced by handfuls.
48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city which [were] round about it, he laid up in it.
49And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for [it was] without number.
50And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera the priest of On bore to him.
51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh (for God made me forget all my toil and all my father's house).
52And the name of the second he called Ephraim (for God caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction).
53And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were ended;
54and the seven years of the famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55And all the land of Egypt was famished; and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he saith to you, do.
56And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened every storehouse [all in which was grain], and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.
57And the whole earth came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.
1And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why look ye one on another?
2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down thither, and buy for us from thence, in order that we may live and not die.
3And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy out of Egypt.
4But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.
5So the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6And Joseph, he [was] the governor over the land; he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came and bowed down to him, the face to the earth.
7And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly with them, and said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8And Joseph knew his brethren; but they knew him not.
9And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10And they said to him, No, my lord; but to buy food thy servants are come.
11We [are] all sons of one man; we [are] true; thy servants are not spies.
12And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
13And they said, Thy servants [were] twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan: and, behold, the youngest [is] this day with our father; and one [is] not.
14And Joseph said to them, That [is it] that I have spoken to you, saying, Ye [are] spies.
15By this ye shall be put to the proof: as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence unless your youngest brother come hither.
16Send one of you that he may fetch your brother; but ye shall be bound, and your words shall be put to proof whether the truth [is] in you; and if not, as Pharaoh liveth, ye [are] spies.
17And he gathered them all into ward three days.
18And Joseph said to them the third day, This do that ye may live: I fear God.
19If ye [are] true, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of their prison; but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;
20and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your words may be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so.
21Then said they one to another, We [are] indeed guilty concerning our brother whose anguish of soul we saw when he besought us and we did not hearken: therefore is this distress come upon us.
22And Reuben answered them saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the lad? but ye did not hearken; and now, behold, his blood also is required.
23And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
24And he turned away from them and wept.
25And Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and so it was done to them.
26And they loaded their asses with their corn and departed thence.
27And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging place, he saw his money, and, behold, it was in the sack's mouth.
28And he said to his brethren, My money is returned, and, behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this God hath done to us?
29And they came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,
30The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and treated us as spies of the land.
31And we said to him, We [are] true; we are not spies;
32we [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father: one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day {i}with our father{/i} in the land of Canaan.
33And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye [are] true: leave one of your brethren with me, and take [for] the hunger of your households,
34and go and bring your youngest brother to me; and I shall know that ye [are] not spies but [are] true: your brother will I give up to you; and ye may trade in the land.
35And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man [had] his bundle of money in his sack; and they saw their bundles of money, they and their father, and were afraid.
36And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have made me childless: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things fall on me.
37And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons if I bring him not back to thee again; give him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
38But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
1And the famine [was] grievous in the land.
2And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.
3And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did positively testify to us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, unless your brother [be] with you.
4If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;
5but if thou do not send [him], we will not go down; for the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face unless your brother [be] with you.
6And Israel said, Why dealt ye so ill with me, to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
7And they said, The man asked very closely after us and after our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye a brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
8And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and thou and our little ones.
9I will be surety for him: of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him not to thee and set him before thy face, then shall I be guilty before thee forever.
10For had we not lingered, we should now certainly have returned already twice.
11And their father Israel said to them, If [it is] then so, do this; take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a gift, a little balm and a little honey, tragacanth and ladanum, pistacia-nuts and almonds;
12and take double money in your hand, and the money that was returned to you in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] back in your hand: perhaps it [is] an oversight.
13Take also your brother and arise, go again to the man.
14And the Almighty God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved [of my children], am bereaved.
15And the men took that gift, and took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house, and slay, and make ready; for the men shall dine with me at noon.
17And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
18And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bond-men, and our asses.
19And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
20and said, O my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food;
21and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, [every] man's money [was] in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it again in our hand.
22And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food: we know not who put our money in our sacks.
23And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to them.
24And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave [them] water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
25And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon; for they heard that they should eat bread there.
26And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which [was] in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth.
27And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? [Is] he yet alive?
28And they said, Thy servant our father [is] well, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed the head and made obeisance.
29And he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, [Is] this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son.
30And Joseph made haste, for his bowels yearned upon his brother; and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered into [his] chamber, and wept there.
31And he washed his face, and came out; and he restrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
32And they set on before him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who did eat with him by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that [is] an abomination to the Egyptians.
33And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one with another.
34And he took messes for them from before him; but Benjamin's mess was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and drank largely with him.
1And he commanded [him] that [was] over his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food as much as they can carry; and put every man's money in the mouth of his sack.
2And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his corn-money. And he did according to the word of Joseph which he had spoken.
3In the morning when it was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
4They were gone out of the city, not far off, when Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou overtakest them, say to them, Why have you rewarded evil for good?
5[Is] not this [it] in what my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? Ye have done evil [in] what ye have done.
6And he overtook them, and spoke to them these words.
7And they said to him, Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants to do such a thing!
8Behold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths we brought again to thee out of the land of Canaan; and how should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
9With whomsoever of thy servants it is found, let him die; and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
10And he said, Now also [be] it according to your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman, and ye shall be blameless.
11And they hasted and laid down every man his sack on the ground, and opened every man his sack.
12And he searched carefully; he began at the eldest, and left at the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
13Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
14And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; and he [was] yet there; and they fell before him on the ground.
15And Joseph said to them, What deed [is] this which ye have done? Know Ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine?
16And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we [are] my lord's bondmen, both we and [he] also in whose hand the cup is found.
17And he said, Far be it that I should do so! The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.
18Then Judah came near to him, and said, Ah! my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou [art] even as Pharaoh.
19My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
20And we said to my lord, We have an aged father, and a child born to him in his old age, a young one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him.
21And thou saidst to thy servants, Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him.
22And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for [if] he should leave his father, he [his father] would die.
23And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
24And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
26But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother [be] with us.
27And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two [sons];
28and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since.
29And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with evil to Sheol.
30Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad [is] not with us, seeing that his soul is bound up with the lad's soul,
31it will come to pass, when he sees that the lad [is] not [with us], that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
32For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty toward my father all the days.
33And now let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;
34for how should I go up to my father if the lad [were] not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come to my father.
1And Joseph could not control himself before all those that stood by him, and he cried, Put every man out from me. And no man stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brethren.
2And he gave forth his voice in weeping; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3And Joseph said to his brethren, I [am] Joseph does my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
4And Joseph said to 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.
5And now be not grieved, and let it not be an occasion of anger in your eyes, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6For the famine [hath been] these two years in the midst of the land; and [there are] yet five years in which [shall be] neither plowing nor harvest.
7And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
8And now [it was] not you sent me here, but God; and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt.
9Haste and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down to me, tarry not.
10And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near to me, thou and thy sons and thy sons' sons, and thy flocks and thy herds and all that thou hast.
11And there will I nourish thee, for [there are] yet five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou and thy household and all that thou hast.
12And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth which speaketh to you.
13And 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.
14And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept on his neck.
15And he kissed all his brethren, and wept on them; and after that his brethren talked with him.
16And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying Joseph's brethren are come; and it was good in Pharaoh's eyes and in the eyes of his bondmen.
17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, say to thy brethren, Do this: load your beasts and depart; go into the land of Canaan,
18and take your father and your households, and come to me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
19And thou art commanded—this do: take waggons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and fetch your father and come.
20And let not your eye regret your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours.
21And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them waggons according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
22To each one of them all he gave changes of raiment, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [shekels] of silver and five changes of raiment.
23And to his father he sent this: ten asses carrying the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses carrying corn and bread and food for his father by the way.
24So he sent his brethren away, and they departed; and he said to them, See that. ye fall not out by the way.
25And they went up out of Egypt and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.
26And they told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
27And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had spoken to them; and when he saw the waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
28And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph my son [is] yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. (Gen. 40:1‑45:28)