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Chapter 45
Gene Webster 45:1  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 to his brethren.
Gene Webster 45:2  And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Gene Webster 45:3  And Joseph said to his brethren, I [am] Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
Gene Webster 45:4  And Joseph said to 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.
Gene Webster 45:5  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Gene Webster 45:6  For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in which [there shall] neither [be] tillage nor harvest.
Gene Webster 45:7  And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Gene Webster 45:8  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.
Gene Webster 45:9  Haste ye, and return to my father, and say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me; delay not:
Gene Webster 45:10  And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near to me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
Gene Webster 45:11  And there will I nourish thee, (for yet [there are] five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, should come to poverty.
Gene Webster 45:12  And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh to you.
Gene Webster 45:13  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 hither.
Gene Webster 45:14  And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Gene Webster 45:15  Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
Gene Webster 45:16  And the fame of this was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
Gene Webster 45:17  And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, This do ye; load your beasts, and go, return to the land of Canaan;
Gene Webster 45:18  And take your father, and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Gene Webster 45:19  Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Gene Webster 45:20  Also regard not your furniture; for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours.
Gene Webster 45:21  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.
Gene Webster 45:22  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.
Gene Webster 45:23  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.
Gene Webster 45:24  So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said to them, See that ye contend not by the way.
Gene Webster 45:25  And they went up from Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father,
Gene Webster 45:26  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.
Gene Webster 45:27  And 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:
Gene Webster 45:28  And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph my son [is] yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.