Chapter 45

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THEN Yoceph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Yoceph made himself known unto his brethren.

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And he wept aloud: and the Mitsriym and the house of Phar'oh heard.

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And Yoceph said unto his brethren, I am Yoceph; does my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

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And Yoceph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Yoceph your brother, whom ye sold into Mitsrayim.

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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for Elohiym did send me before you to preserve life.

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For these two years has the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

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And Elohiym sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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So now it was not you that sent me hither, but Elohiym: and he has made me a father to Phar'oh, and adon of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.

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Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus says your son Yoceph, Elohiym has made me adon of all Mitsrayim: come down unto me, tarry not:

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And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near unto me, you, and your children, and your children's children, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have:

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And there will I nourish you; for yet there are five years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.

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And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Binyamiyn, that it is my mouth that speaks unto you.

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And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Mitsrayim, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

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And he fell upon his brother Binyamiyn's neck, and wept; and Binyamiyn wept upon his neck.

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Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

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And the fame thereof was heard in Phar'oh's house, saying, Yoceph's brethren are come: and it pleased Phar'oh well, and his servants.

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And Phar'oh said unto El-Yoceph, Say unto your brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Kena`an;

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And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Mitsrayim, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

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Now you are commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Mitsrayim for your little ones, and for your women, and bring your father, and come.

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Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Mitsrayim is yours.

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And the children of Yashar'el did so: and Yoceph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Phar'oh, and gave them provision for the way.

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To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Binyamiyn he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

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And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Mitsrayim, and ten she asses laden with grain and bread and meat for his father by the way.

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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

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And they went up out of Mitsrayim, and came into the land of Kena`an unto El-Ya`aqov their father,

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And told him, saying, Yoceph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Mitsrayim. And Ya`aqov's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

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And they told him את all the words of Yoceph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Yoceph had sent to carry him, the ruach of Ya`aqov their father revived:

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And Yashar'el said, It is enough; Yoceph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.



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