Genesis 45:4–11

⁴And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. ⁵And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve life. ⁶For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest. ⁷So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. ⁸And now it was not you that sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt. ⁹Haste and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, tarry not. ¹⁰And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near to me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons’ sons, and thy sheep, and thy cattle, and all that thou hast. ¹¹And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.