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CHAPTER 45
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.
2
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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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And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
Benjamin, that
it is
my mouth that speaketh unto you.
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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.
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And
he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
15
Moreover
he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
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And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and
it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
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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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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.
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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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Also regard not
your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt
is
yours.
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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.
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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.
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.
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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them,
See that ye fall not out by the way.
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And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
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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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And they told him all the words of Joseph, which
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