Genesis 45:1-18

Genesis 45:1-18

[1] Then Joseph  could  not refrain  himself before all them that stood  by him; and he cried,  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 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  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  thy son  Joseph,  God  hath made  me lord  of all Egypt:  come down  unto me, tarry  [10] And thou shalt dwell  in the land  of Goshen,  and thou shalt be near  unto me, thou, and thy 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.  [12] And, behold, your eyes  see,  and the eyes  of my brother  Benjamin,  that it is my mouth  that speaketh  [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  [14] 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  [16] And the fame  thereof was heard  in Pharaoh's  house,  saying,  Joseph's  brethren  are come:  Pharaoh  well,  and  his servants.  [17] And Pharaoh  said  unto Joseph,  Say  unto thy brethren,  This do  ye; lade  your beasts,  get  you unto the land  of Canaan;  [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.