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to preserve your lives. 6 This famine that has ravaged the land for two years
will last five more years, and there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
7 God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to
preserve many survivors.* 8 So it was God who sent me here, not you! And he
is the one who made me an adviser* to Pharaoh—the manager of his entire
palace and the governor of all Egypt.
9 “Now hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph
says: God has made me master over all the land of Egypt. So come down to
me immediately! 10 You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be
near me with all your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds,
and everything you own. 11 I will take care of you there, for there are still
five years of famine ahead of us. Otherwise you, your household, and all
your animals will starve.’”
12 Then Joseph added, “Look! You can see for yourselves, and so can my
brother Benjamin, that I really am Joseph! 13 Go tell my father of my honored
position here in Egypt. Describe for him everything you have seen, and then
bring my father here quickly.” 14 Weeping with joy, he embraced Benjamin,
and Benjamin did the same. 15 Then Joseph kissed each of his brothers and
wept over them, and after that they began talking freely with him.
Pharaoh Invites Jacob to Egypt
16 The news soon reached Pharaoh’s palace: “Joseph’s brothers have arrived!”
Pharaoh and his officials were all delighted to hear this.
17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘This is what you must do:
Load your pack animals, and hurry back to the land of Canaan. 18 Then get
your father and all of your families, and return here to me. I will give you
the very best land in Egypt, and you will eat from the best that the land
produces.’”
19 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Take wagons from
the land of Egypt to carry your little children and your wives, and bring your
father here. 20 Don’t worry about your personal belongings, for the best of all
the land of Egypt is yours.’”
21 So the sons of Jacob* did as they were told. Joseph provided them with
wagons, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he gave them supplies for the
journey. 22 And he gave each of them new clothes—but to Benjamin he gave
five changes of clothes and 300 pieces* of silver. 23 He also sent his father
ten male donkeys loaded with the finest products of Egypt, and ten female
donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other supplies he would need on
his journey.
24 So Joseph sent his brothers off, and as they left, he called after them,
“Don’t quarrel about all this along the way!” 25 And they left Egypt and returned to their father, Jacob, in the land of Canaan.
26 “Joseph is still alive!” they told him. “And he is governor of all the land
of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned at the n
ews—he couldn’t believe it. 27 But when
they repeated to Jacob everything Joseph had told them, and when he saw the
wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, their father’s spirits revived.
28 Then Jacob exclaimed, “It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I must
go and see him before I die.”
45:7 Or and to save you with an extraordinary rescue. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
45:8 Hebrew a father.
45:21 Hebrew Israel; also in 45:28. See note on 35:21. 45:22 Hebrew
300 [shekels], about 7.5 pounds or 3.4 kilograms in weight.
