Genesis 45
1Joseph could no longer control himself before all those standing around him. He called out, “Send everyone away from me!” So no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2He gave voice to his weeping, and the Egyptians heard it, and Pharaoh's household heard it. 3Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” His brothers could not answer him, because they were terrified before him. 4Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” They came near, and he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 5Now, do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life. 6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing or harvest. 7God sent me ahead of you to preserve a remnant for you on the earth and to keep you alive through a great deliverance. 8So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9Hurry, go up to my father and say to him, ‘Your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay. 10You will live in the land of Goshen and be near me—you, your sons, your sons' sons, your flocks, your cattle, and everything you have. 11I will provide for you there, because there are still five years of famine, so that you and your household and everything you have will not become destitute.’ 12Look, your own eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my mouth speaking to you. 13Tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and everything you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.” 14He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. 15He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers spoke with him.
16The news was heard in Pharaoh's household: “Joseph's brothers have come!” It was good in Pharaoh's eyes and in the eyes of his servants. 17Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your animals and go to the land of Canaan. 18Take your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ 19You are also commanded to say, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little children and your wives, carry your father, and come. 20Do not let your eyes grieve over your possessions, because the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.’” 21The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharaoh's command and gave them provisions for the journey. 22He gave each of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. 23He sent his father these things: ten male donkeys carrying the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain, bread, and food for his father's journey. 24He sent his brothers away, and they left. He said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”
25They went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. 26They told him, “Joseph is still alive! He is even ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart went numb, because he did not believe them. 27But when they told him all the words Joseph had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. 28Israel said, “Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”