Genesis 45 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Yosĕ

² And he wept aloud, and the Mitsrites and the house of Pharaoh heard it.

³ And Yosĕ

⁴ Then Yosĕ

⁵ “And now, do not be grieved nor displeased with yourselves because you sold me here, for Elohim sent me before you to preserve life.

⁶ “For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting.

⁷ “And Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to give life to you by a great escape.

⁸ “So then, you did not send me here, but Elohim. And He has set me for a father to Pharaoh, and master of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.

⁹ “Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Yosĕ

¹⁰ “And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and be near to me, you and your children, your children’s children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.

¹¹ “And I shall provide for you there, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty, because five years of scarcity of food are still to come.” ’

¹² “And look, your eyes and the eyes of my brother Binyamin see that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

¹³ “And you shall inform my father of all my esteem in Mitsrayim, and of all that you have seen. And you shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

¹⁴ And he fell on his brother Binyamin’s neck and wept, and Binyamin wept on his neck.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and after that his brothers spoke with him.

¹⁶ And the report of it was heard by the house of Pharaoh, saying, “The brothers of Yosĕ

¹⁷ And Pharaoh said to Yosĕ

¹⁸ and take your father and your households and come to me, and I give you the best of the land of Mitsrayim, and you eat the fat of the land.

¹⁹ ‘And you, you have been commanded, do this: Take wagons out of the land of Mitsrayim for your little ones and your wives. And you shall bring your father, and come.

²⁰ ‘And do not be concerned about your goods, for the best of all the land of Mitsrayim is yours.’ ”

²¹ And the sons of Yisra’ĕ

²² He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.

²³ And he sent to his father this: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Mitsrayim, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, and bread, and food for his father for the journey.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they left. And he said to them, “Do not quarrel along the way.”

²⁵ And they went up out of Mitsrayim, and came to the land of Kenaʽ

²⁶ And they told him, saying, “Yosĕ

²⁷ But when they spoke to him all the words which Yosĕ

²⁸ And Yisra’ĕ