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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.
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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 .
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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves , that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
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And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
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