Joseph Reveals His Identity

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Yosef said to his brothers, "I am Yosef! Is it true that my father is still alive?" His brothers couldn't answer him, they were so dumbfounded at seeing him.

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Yosef said to his brothers, "Please! Come closer." And they came closer. He said, "I am Yosef, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

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But don't be sad that you sold me into slavery here or angry at yourselves, because it was God who sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

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The famine has been over the land for the last two years, and for yet another five years there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

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God sent me ahead of you to ensure that you will have descendants on earth and to save your lives in a great deliverance.

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So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his household and ruler over the whole land of Egypt.

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Hurry, go up to my father, and tell him, 'Here is what your son Yosef says: "God has made me lord of all Egypt! Come down to me, don't delay!

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You will live in the land of Goshen and be near me - you, your children, your grandchildren, flocks, herds, everything you own.

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I will provide for you there, so that you won't become poverty-stricken, you, your household and all that you have; because five years of famine are yet to come."'

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