⁴And Joseph saith unto his brethren, ‘Come nigh unto me, I pray you,’ and they come nigh; and he saith, ‘I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt; ⁵and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

⁶‘Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest; ⁷and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape; ⁸and now, ye—ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁹‘Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not, ¹⁰and thou hast dwelt in the land of Goshen, and been near unto me, thou and thy sons, and thy son’s sons, and thy flock, and thy herd, and all that thou hast, ¹¹and I have nourished thee there—for yet are five years of famine—lest thou become poor, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.

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