1Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all who stood beside him, and he called out, “Send everyone away from me!” So no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2And he gave his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were terrified at his presence.
4Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me,” and they came near. And he said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5And now, do not be grieved, and let it not burn in your eyes that you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6For this is two years that the famine has been in the midst of the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing and harvest.
7So God sent me before you to establish for you a remnant in the land and to keep you alive for a great deliverance.
8So now, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord over all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: God has made me lord over all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay.
10And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen and be near to me—you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks and your herds, and all that is yours.
11And I will sustain you there, for there are still five years of famine, lest you become impoverished—you and your household and all that is yours.’
12And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
13So tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and all that you have seen; and hurry and bring my father down here.
14Then he fell upon the neck of Benjamin his brother and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
15And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them; and after that his brothers spoke with him.
16And the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants.
17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go, enter the land of Canaan,
18and take your father and your households and come to me; and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.
19And you are commanded—do this: take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come.
20And let not your eye be concerned over your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.”
21And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons according to the mouth of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey.
22To all of them he gave, to each man, changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
23And to his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys carrying the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain and bread and provision for his father for the journey.
24So he sent his brothers off, and they went; and he said to them, “Do not be agitated on the way.”
25So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
26And they told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” But his heart went numb, for he did not believe them.
27But they spoke to him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them; and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
28And Israel said, “Enough! Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
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