Jacob and Joseph Embrace Again

^{Genesis 45:1} Then Joseph 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 Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

^{Genesis 45:2} And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

^{Genesis 45:3} And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

^{Genesis 45:4} And Joseph said 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.

^{Genesis 45:5} Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

^{Genesis 45:6} For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

^{Genesis 45:7} And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

^{Genesis 45:8} 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.

^{Genesis 45:9} Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

^{Genesis 45:10} And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

^{Genesis 45:11} And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

^{Genesis 45:12} And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

^{Genesis 45:13} 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.

^{Genesis 45:14} And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

^{Genesis 45:15} Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

^{Genesis 45:16} And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

^{Genesis 45:17} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

^{Genesis 45:18} And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

^{Genesis 45:19} Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

^{Genesis 45:20} Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

^{Genesis 45:21} And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

^{Genesis 45:22} To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

^{Genesis 45:23} And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

^{Genesis 45:24} So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

^{Genesis 45:25} And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

^{Genesis 45:26} And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.

^{Genesis 45:27} And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

^{Genesis 45:28} And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

^{Genesis 46:1} And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

^{Genesis 46:2} And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

^{Genesis 46:3} And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

^{Genesis 46:4} I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

^{Genesis 46:5} And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

^{Genesis 46:6} And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

^{Genesis 46:7} His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

^{Genesis 46:8} And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

^{Genesis 46:9} And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

^{Genesis 46:10} And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

^{Genesis 46:11} And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

^{Genesis 46:12} And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

^{Genesis 46:13} And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

^{Genesis 46:14} And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

^{Genesis 46:15} These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

^{Genesis 46:16} And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

^{Genesis 46:17} And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

^{Genesis 46:18} These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

^{Genesis 46:19} The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

^{Genesis 46:20} And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

^{Genesis 46:21} And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

^{Genesis 46:22} These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

^{Genesis 46:23} And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

^{Genesis 46:24} And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

^{Genesis 46:25} These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

^{Genesis 46:26} All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

^{Genesis 46:27} And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

^{Genesis 46:28} And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

^{Genesis 46:29} And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

^{Genesis 46:30} And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

^{Genesis 46:31} And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

^{Genesis 46:32} And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

^{Genesis 46:33} And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

^{Genesis 46:34} That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.