45Genesis 45

1Then 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 to his brothers.Select Genesis 45:1

2And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.Select Genesis 45:2

3And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.Select Genesis 45:3

4And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.Select Genesis 45:4

5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life.Select Genesis 45:5

6For these two years has the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be ripening nor harvest.Select Genesis 45:6

7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.Select Genesis 45:7

8So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.Select Genesis 45:8

9Haste you, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt: come down to me, tarry not:Select Genesis 45:9

10And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you, and your children, and your children’s children, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have:Select Genesis 45:10

11And there will I nourish you; for yet there are five years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.Select Genesis 45:11

12And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.Select Genesis 45:12

13And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall haste and bring down my father here.Select Genesis 45:13

14And he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept on his neck.Select Genesis 45:14

15Moreover he kissed all his brothers, and wept on them: and after that his brothers talked with him. ¶Select Genesis 45:15

16And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brothers are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.Select Genesis 45:16

17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, This do you; lade your beasts, and go, get you to the land of Canaan;Select Genesis 45:17

18And take your father and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.Select Genesis 45:18

19Now you are commanded, this do you; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.Select Genesis 45:19

20Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.Select Genesis 45:20

21And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.Select Genesis 45:21

22To 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.Select Genesis 45:22

23And 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.Select Genesis 45:23

24So he sent his brothers away, and they departed: and he said to them, See that you fall not out by the way. ¶Select Genesis 45:24

25And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father,Select Genesis 45:25

26And 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.Select Genesis 45:26

27And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:Select Genesis 45:27

28And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.Select Genesis 45:28