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Joseph
Deals Kindly with His Brothers |
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Genesis 45:1
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Then Joseph could not control himself before
all those who stood by him, and he cried, "Have everyone go out from me." So there
was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. |
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Genesis 45:2
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He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it,
and the household of Pharaoh heard of it. |
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Genesis 45:3
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph!
Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were
dismayed at his presence. |
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Genesis 45:4
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Then 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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Genesis 45:5
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"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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Genesis 45:6
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"For the famine has been in the land these two
years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor
harvesting. |
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Genesis 45:7
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"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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Genesis 45:8
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"Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me
here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household
and ruler over all the land of Egypt. |
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Genesis 45:9
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"Hurry 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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Genesis 45:10
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"You shall live in the land of Goshen, and you
shall be near 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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Genesis 45:11
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"There I will also provide for you, for there
are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that
you have would be impoverished."' |
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Genesis 45:12
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"Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which is speaking to you. |
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Genesis 45:13
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"Now you must tell my father of all my splendor
in Egypt, and all that you have seen; and you must hurry and bring my father down
here." |
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Genesis 45:14
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Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck
and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. |
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Genesis 45:15
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He kissed all his brothers and wept on them,
and afterward his brothers talked with him. |
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Genesis 45:16
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Now when the news was heard in Pharaoh's house
that Joseph's brothers had come, it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. |
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Genesis 45:17
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers,
'Do this: load your beasts and go to the land of Canaan, |
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Genesis 45:18
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and 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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Genesis 45:19
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"Now you are ordered, 'Do this: take wagons
from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your
father and come. |
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Genesis 45:20
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'Do not concern yourselves with your goods,
for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'" |
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Genesis 45:21
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Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave
them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for
the journey. |
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Genesis 45:22
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To 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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Genesis 45:23
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To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys
loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain
and bread and sustenance for his father on the journey. |
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Genesis 45:24
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So he sent his brothers away, and as they departed,
he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the journey." |
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Genesis 45:25
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Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the
land of Canaan to their father Jacob. |
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Genesis 45:26
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They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive,
and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." But he was stunned, for he
did not believe them. |
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Genesis 45:27
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When they told him all the words of Joseph that
he had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry
him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. |
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Genesis 45:28
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Then Israel said, "It is enough; my son Joseph
is still alive. I will go and see him before I die." |
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