Genesis 45 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Hebrew Names version (HNV)
Genesis 45

¹ Then Yosef couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, *Cause every man to go out from me!* No one else stood with him, while Yosef made himself known to his brothers.

² He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Par`oh heard.

³ Yosef said to his brothers, *I am Yosef! Does my father still live?* His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

⁴ Yosef said to his brothers, *Come near to me, please.* They came near. *He said, I am Yosef, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

⁵ Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

⁶ For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

⁷ God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

⁸ So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Par`oh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁹ Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Yosef says, *God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

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

¹¹ There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.*'

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

¹³ You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.*

¹⁴ He fell on his brother Binyamin's neck, and wept, and Binyamin wept on his neck.

¹⁵ He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

¹⁶ The report of it was heard in Par`oh's house, saying, *Yosef's brothers have come.* It pleased Par`oh well, and his servants.

¹⁷ Par`oh said to Yosef, *Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Kena`an.

¹⁸ Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

¹⁹ Now 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.

²⁰ Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours.*

²¹ The sons of Yisra'el did so. Yosef gave them wagons, according to the mitzvah of Par`oh, and gave them provision for the way.

²² He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

²³ To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, *See that you don't quarrel on the way.*

²⁵ They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Kena`an, to Ya`akov their father.

²⁶ They told him, saying, *Yosef is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.* His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.

²⁷ They told him all the words of Yosef, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Yosef had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ya`akov, their father, revived.

²⁸ Yisra'el said, *It is enough. Yosef my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.*