Jacob, Joseph & Egypt

My lord hath asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother?

and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him.

`And thou sayest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, and I set mine eye upon him;

and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.

`And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;

and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food,

and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for we are not able to see the man's face, and our young brother not with us.

`And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye--ye have known that two did my wife bare to me,

and the one goeth out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn--torn! and I have not seen him since;

when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

then it hath come to pass when he seeth that the youth is not, that he hath died, and thy servants have brought down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to sheol;

for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee--then I have sinned against my father all the days.

`And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,

for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

And Joseph hath not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calleth, `Put out every man from me;' and no man hath stood with him when Joseph maketh himself known unto his brethren,

and he giveth forth his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh heareth.

And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I am Joseph, is my father yet alive?' and his brethren have not been able to answer him, for they have been troubled at his presence.

And 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;

and 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.

`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;

and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;

and 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.

`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,