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45:1Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who attended him; and he cried out, Have everyone go out from me. So there was no one standing with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
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45:2And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
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45:3And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph! Is my father still alive? But his brothers could not answer him, so troubled were they at his presence.
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45:4And Joseph said to his brothers, Please come closer to me. And they came closer. And he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
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45:5And now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
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45:6For the famine has been in the midst of the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
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45:7And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
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45:8So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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45:9Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me; do not delay.
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45:10And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen and be near to me, you and your children and your children's children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.
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45:11And there I will sustain you-for there are still five years of famine to come-so that you and your household and all that you have do not become impoverished.
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45:12And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my own mouth that speaks to you.
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45:13And you must tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that you have seen, and you must hurry and bring my father down here.
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45:14And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
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45:15And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them, and after that his brothers talked with him.
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45:16And when the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers have come, it was pleasing to Pharaoh and to his servants.
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45:17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: Load your beasts, and depart; go to the land of Canaan;
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45:18And take your father and your households, and come to me. And I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.
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45:19And you are commanded, Do this: Take 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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45:20And do not be concerned for your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.
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45:21And the sons of Israel did so, and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh and gave them provisions for the way.
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45:22To each of them he gave changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.
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45:23And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, and bread and provision for his father on the way.
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45:24So he sent his brothers away; and as they departed, he said to them, Do not quarrel on the way.
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45:25So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.
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45:26And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart grew numb, for he did not believe them.
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45:27And 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.
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45:28And Israel said, It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.
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46:1So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
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46:2And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here I am.
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46:3And He said, I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.
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46:4I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph's hand will close your eyes.
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46:5And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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46:6And they took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt.
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46:7His sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt.
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46:8And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob's firstborn, Reuben.
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46:9And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.
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46:10And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
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46:11And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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46:12And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
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46:13And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvah and Iob and Shimron.
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46:14And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
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46:15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, along with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters were thirty-three persons in all.
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46:16And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.
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46:17And the sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
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46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen persons.
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46:19The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
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46:20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Potiphera priest of On bore to him.
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46:21And the sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
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46:22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob, fourteen persons in all.
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46:23And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
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46:24And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
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46:25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob, seven persons in all.
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46:26All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides the wives of Jacob's sons, were sixty-six persons in all.
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46:27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.
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46:28And he sent Judah before him to Joseph to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came to the land of Goshen.
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46:29And Joseph made his chariot ready and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father. And when he appeared before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
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46:30And Israel said to Joseph, Let me die now since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.
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46:31And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
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46:32And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.
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46:33And when Pharaoh calls you and says, What is your occupation?
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46:34You shall say, Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers; that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
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