Genesis Chapter 45
1 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him and he cried out, Cause every man to go out from me. Then no one stood before him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2 He wept aloud and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Is my father still alive? His brothers could not answer him for they were troubled at his presence.
4 Joseph said to his brothers, Please come near me. They came near and he said, I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt.
5 Now do not be grieved nor angry with yourselves that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6 For these two years there has been famine in the land and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing nor harvest.
7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 Now it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father advisor to Pharaoh, lord over all his house, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not wait.
10 You will live 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 you have.
11 I will nourish you there, for there are still five years of famine, lest you and your household and all that you have come to poverty.
12 Your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is me who speaks to you.
13 Tell my father about all of my glory in Egypt and all that you have seen. Then hurry and bring my father here.
14 He fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
15 He kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.
16 The report was heard in Pharaoh's house saying, Joseph's brothers have come. And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and of his servants.
17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: load your beasts and go into the land of Canaan,
18 and 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.
19 Now you are commanded. Do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little children, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
20 Do not regard your stuff, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
21 The children of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave 300 pieces of silver, and five changes of clothing.
23 To his father he sent this: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt and ten she donkeys loaded with grain and bread and food for his father by the way.
24 He sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them, Do not quarrel along the way.
25 They left Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
26 They told him saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he did not believe them.
27 They told him all the words of Joseph that he had said to them. And when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
28 Israel said, It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.