The word to fetch the father, and Jacob hearing the news

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• GEN 45:9–28, engwebp

  ⁹Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.

  ¹⁰You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

  ¹¹There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’

  ¹²Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

  ¹³You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

  ¹⁴He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

  ¹⁵He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

  ¹⁶The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

  ¹⁷Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  ¹⁸Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

  ¹⁹Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

  ²⁰Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

  ²¹The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

  ²²He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

  ²³He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

  ²⁴So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

  ²⁵They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

  ²⁶They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

  ²⁷They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

  ²⁸Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

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