⁴Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.”^p When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!^q ⁵And now, do not be distressed^r and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here,^s because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.^t ⁶For two years now there has been famine^u in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. ⁷But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant^v on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.^a^w

⁸“So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.^x He made me father^y to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.^z ⁹Now hurry^a back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.^b ¹⁰You shall live in the region of Goshen^c and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.^d ¹¹I will provide for you there,^e because five years of famine^f are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’^g

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Footnotes

aOr save you as a great band of survivors

Cross references

p Ge 27:21–22
q Ge 37:28
r Ge 42:21
s Ge 42:22
tver 7–8; Ge 50:20; Job 10:12; Ps 105:17
uSee Ge 41:30
v 2 Ki 19:4, 30, 31; Ezr 9:8, 13; Isa 1:9; 10:20, 21; 11:11, 16; 46:3; Jer 6:9; 42:2; 50:20; Mic 4:7; 5:7; Zep 2:7
wSee ver 5; Ge 49:18; Ex 15:2; 1 Sa 14:45; 2 Ki 13:5; Est 4:14; Isa 25:9; Mic 7:7
xver 5
y Jdg 17:10; 2 Ki 6:21; 13:14
zSee Ge 41:41
aSee Ge 43:15
b Ge 43:10; Ac 7:14
c Ge 46:28, 34; 47:1, 11, 27; 50:8; Ex 8:22; 9:26; 10:24
d Ge 46:6–7
e Ge 47:12; 50:21
fSee Ge 41:30
g Ps 102:17