1 And Joseph has not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calls, “Put out every man from me”; and no man has stood with him when Joseph makes himself known to his brothers, 2 and he gives forth his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh hears. 3 And Joseph says to his brothers, “I [am] Joseph, is my father yet alive?” And his brothers have not been able to answer him, for they have been troubled at his presence. 4 And Joseph says to his brothers, “Please come near to me,” and they come near; and he says, “I [am] your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt; 5 and now, do not be grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that you sold me here, for God has sent me before you to preserve life. 6 Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet five years [remain in] which there is neither plowing nor harvest; 7 and God sends me before you, to place a remnant of you in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape; 8 and now, you have not sent me here, but God, and He sets me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9 Hurry, and go up to my father, then you have said to him, Thus said your son Joseph: God has set me for lord to all Egypt; come down to me, do not stay, 10 and you have dwelt in the land of Goshen, and been near to me, you and your sons, and your son’s sons, and your flock, and your herd, and all that you have, 11 and I have nourished you there—for yet [are] five years of famine—lest you become poor, you and your household, and all that you have. 12 And behold, your eyes are seeing, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth which is speaking to you; 13 and you have declared to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all that you have seen, and you have hurried, and have brought down my father here.” 14 And he falls on the neck of his brother Benjamin, and weeps, and Benjamin has wept on his neck; 15 and he kisses all his brothers, and weeps over them; and afterward his brothers have spoken with him. 16 And the sound has been heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, “The brothers of Joseph have come”; and it is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, 17 and Pharaoh says to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, This you do: load your beasts, and go, enter the land of Canaan, 18 and take your father, and your households, and come to me, and I give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and you eat the fat of the land. 19 Indeed, you have been commanded: this you do, take for yourselves out of the land of Egypt, wagons for your infants, and for your wives, and you have brought your father, and come; 20 and your eye has no pity on your vessels, for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours.” 21 And the sons of Israel do so, and Joseph gives wagons to them by the command of Pharaoh, and he gives to them provision for the way; 22 to all of them has he given—to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he has given three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of garments; 23 and to his father he has sent thus: ten donkeys carrying of the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain and bread, even food for his father for the way. 24 And he sends his brothers away, and they go; and he says to them, “Do not be angry in the way.” 25 And they go up out of Egypt, and come to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob, 26 and they declare to him, saying, “Joseph [is] yet alive,” and that he [is] ruler over all the land of Egypt; and his heart ceases, for he has not given credence to them. 27 And they speak to him all the words of Joseph, which he has spoken to them, and he sees the wagons which Joseph has sent to carry him away, and the spirit of their father Jacob lives; 28 and Israel says, “Enough! My son Joseph [is] yet alive; I go and see him before I die.”
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Betrayed and enslaved, he rose to rule Egypt and saved his family from famine.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 37; 39–50
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- 1 Matthew 18:15; Genesis 43:30–31; Isaiah 42:14; Acts 10:41; 2 Samuel 1:20
- 2 Numbers 14:1; Genesis 46:29; Acts 20:37; Ruth 1:9; 2 Kings 20:3
- 3 Acts 7:13; Acts 9:5; Zechariah 12:10; Revelation 1:7; Luke 24:37–38
- 4 Genesis 37:28; Matthew 14:27; Acts 9:5; Genesis 50:18
- 5 Genesis 50:20; Acts 7:9–15; Job 1:21; Genesis 45:7–8; Acts 2:23–24
- 6 Genesis 47:23; Genesis 41:56; Genesis 41:54; Genesis 41:29–31; 1 Samuel 8:12
- 7 Psalm 44:4; Acts 7:35; Judges 15:18; Psalm 18:50; 1 Chronicles 11:14
- 8 John 15:16; Romans 9:16; John 19:11; Psalm 105:21–22; Job 29:16
- 9 Genesis 45:19–20; Genesis 45:13
- 10 Exodus 8:22; Exodus 9:26; Genesis 46:34–47:6; Genesis 46:28–29; John 17:24
- 11 Genesis 47:12; Matthew 15:5–6; Genesis 47:6; 1 Timothy 5:4; Mark 7:9–12
- 12 Genesis 42:23; John 20:27; Luke 24:39
- 13 Acts 7:14; 1 Peter 1:10–12; Revelation 21:23; John 17:24
- 14 Genesis 46:29; Romans 1:31; Genesis 29:11; Genesis 33:4
- 15 Luke 15:20; 1 Samuel 20:41; Exodus 4:27; Genesis 29:11; 1 Samuel 10:1
- 16 2 Samuel 3:36; 2 Chronicles 30:4; Genesis 20:15; Deuteronomy 1:33; Genesis 34:18
- 17 Genesis 44:1–2; Genesis 42:25–26
- 18 Genesis 27:28; Genesis 47:6; Numbers 18:12; Psalm 147:14; Numbers 18:29
- 19 Genesis 46:5; Genesis 45:27; Isaiah 49:23; Genesis 31:17–18; Isaiah 49:1
- 20 Isaiah 1:19; Luke 17:31; Deuteronomy 19:13; Ezekiel 7:4; Joshua 7:11
- 21 Genesis 45:19; 2 Chronicles 8:13; Ecclesiastes 8:2; Lamentations 1:18; Numbers 3:16
- 22 Genesis 43:34; 2 Kings 5:5; 2 Kings 5:22–23; Judges 14:12; Judges 14:19
- 23 Genesis 24:10; Exodus 16:3; Genesis 43:11
- 24 1 Thessalonians 5:13; John 13:34–35; Psalm 133:1–3; Colossians 3:12–13; Ephesians 4:31–32
- 26 Genesis 44:28; Genesis 37:35; Job 29:24; Luke 24:34; Luke 24:41
- 27 Isaiah 57:15; Genesis 45:19; Psalm 85:6; Hosea 6:2; 1 Samuel 30:12
- 28 Luke 2:28–30; John 16:21–22; Genesis 46:30
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