Vayigash 45:04–45:11 · SKIP

45:04

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come forward to me.” And when they came forward, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, he whom you sold into Egypt.”

45:05

Now, do not be distressed or reproach yourselves because you sold me hither; it was to save life that God sent me ahead of you.

45:06

It is now two years that there has been famine in the land, and there are still five years to come in which there shall be no yield from tilling.

45:07

God has sent me ahead of you to ensure your survival on earth, and to save your lives in an extraordinary deliverance.

45:08

So, it was not you who sent me here, but God—who has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his household, and ruler over the whole land of Egypt.

45:09

Now, hurry back to my father and say to him: Thus says your son Joseph, ‘God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me without delay.’

45:10

You will dwell in the region of Goshen, where you will be near me—you and your children and your grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all that is yours.

45:11

There I will provide for you—for there are yet five years of famine to come—that you and your household and all that is yours may not suffer want.