Genesis

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with us. We won't be able to gain an audience with the man without our youngest brother with us.' 27 Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife gave birth to two sons for me. 28 One disappeared and I said, "He must have been torn up by a wild animal," and I haven't seen him since. 29 And if you take this one from me too, something terrible will happen to him, and you will send me―old as I am-to my grave in despair.' 30When I now go back to your servant my father without the young man whose life is so bound up with his-31and when he sees that the young man isn't with us, he will die, and your servants will have sent our father your servant-old as he is to his grave in grief. 321, your servant, guaranteed the young man's safety to my father, telling him, 'If I don't bring him back to you, it will be my fault forever.' 33 Now, please let your servant stay as your slave instead of the young man so that he can go back with his brothers. 34 How can I go back to my father without the young man? I couldn't bear to see how badly my father would be hurt."
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so he declared, “Everyone, leave now!" So no one stayed with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers. He wept so loudly that the Egyptians and Pharaoh's household heard him. 3Joseph said to his brothers, "I'm Joseph! Is my father really still alive?" His brothers couldn't respond because they were terrified before him.
"Joseph said to his brothers, "Come closer to me," and they moved closer. He said, "I'm your brother Joseph! The one you sold to Egypt. "Now, don't be upset and don't be angry with yourselves that you sold me here. Actually, God sent me before you to save lives. "We've already had two years of famine in the land, and there are five years left without planting or harvesting. 'God sent me before you to make sure you'd survive and to rescue your lives in this amazing way. You didn't send me
Joseph's brothers return for Jacob
Joseph reveals his identity
16 When Pharaoh's household heard the message "Joseph's brothers have
control him
45 Joseph could no longer contendants, both Pharaoh nd his servants were pleased.
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here; it was God who made me a father to Pharaoh, master of his entire household, and ruler of the whole land of Egypt.
9"Hurry! Go back to your father. Tell him this is what your son Joseph says: 'God has made me master of all of Egypt. Come down to me. Don't delay. 10 You may live in the land of Goshen, so you will be near me, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everyone with you. "I will support you there, so you, your household, and everyone with you won't starve, since the famine will still last five years.' 12You and my brother Benjamin have seen with your own eyes that I'm speaking to 13 Tell you. my father about my power in Egypt and about everything you've seen. Hurry and bring my father down here." 14He threw his arms around his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder. 15 He kissed all of his brothers and wept, embracing them. After that, his brothers were finally able to talk to him.
"Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Give your brothers these instructions: Load your pack animals and go back to the land of Canaan. 18 Get your father and your households and come back to me. Let me provide you with good things from the land of Egypt so that you may eat the land's best food. 19Give them these instructions too: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your children and wives, and pick up your father and come back. 20Don't worry about your possessions because you will have good things from the entire land of Egypt."
21 So Israel's sons did that. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh instructed, and he gave them provisions for the road. 22To all of them he gave a change of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. 23To his father he sent ten male donkeys carrying