1Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who were standing by him; so he cried out, “Let everyone leave me.” So nobody stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians and Pharaoh’s court heard.
3Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him for they were frightened in his presence.
4Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, I beg of you.” So they came near. And he said, “I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt.
5Do not be troubled nor angry with yourselves that you sold me here, because God sent me before you to preserve life.
6For the famine has already been two years in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.
7God sent me before you to keep you alive through a great deliverance and give you descendants on the earth.
8So now it clear that it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me like a father to Pharaoh and master of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9“Go up quickly to my father and say to him, ‘Your son Joseph says: God has made me master of all Egypt, come down to me without delay.
10You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me with your children and children’s children, with your flocks and your herds and all that you have,
11and there I will provide for you. Otherwise you, together with your household and all that you have, will starve; for there will be five more years of famine.’
12Now you and my brother Benjamin see that it is really me, Joseph, who is speaking to you.
13Tell my father all about my honor in Egypt and what you have seen, and you must quickly bring him down here.”
14Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
15He also kissed all his brothers and wept with them; and after that his brothers talked with him.
16The report that Joseph’s brothers had arrived spread in Pharaoh’s palace, and it pleased Pharaoh and his servants greatly.
17Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts, go to the land of Canaan,
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 best that the land affords.
19Now you are commanded to do this: take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come.
20Also pay no attention to your household goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
21The sons of Jacob did as commanded. So Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharaoh’s orders and provisions for the journey.
22To each of them he gave a change of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
23To his father he sent the following gifts: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father on the journey.
24So he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “See that you do not quarrel on the journey!”
25So they went up out of Egypt and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.
26They told him, “Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” Then Jacob’s heart stood still, for he could not believe them.
27But when they told him all that Joseph had said to them and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived,
28and he, Israel, said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”