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And Josephsaid unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethrencould not answer him; for they were troubled[a] at his presence.
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And Josephsaid unto 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.
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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
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For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are fiveyears, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
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And Godsent me before you to preserve[b] you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a greatdeliverance.
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So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
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Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy sonJoseph,God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
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And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children'schildren, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
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And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are fiveyears of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
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And, behold, your eyessee, and the eyes of my brotherBenjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
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And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.