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Chapter 45 |
| 1 | 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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2 | And he wept aloud: and
the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | Now
therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither:
for God did send me before you to preserve life. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | And God sent
me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives
by a great deliverance. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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: |
| 10 | 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: |
| 11 | 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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12 | And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my
brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | 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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16 | And the fame thereof was
heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased
Pharaoh well, and his servants. |
| 17 | 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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18 | 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. |
| 19 | 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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20 | Also regard not your stuff; for the
good of all the land of Egypt is yours. |
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21 | 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. |
| 22 | 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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23 | 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. |
| 24 | So he sent
his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall
not out by the way. |
| 25 | And they went up out of Egypt, and came into
the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, |
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26 | 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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27 | 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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| 28 | And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and
see him before I die. |
