Joseph Reveals His Identity

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, vvv and he cried out,“Send everyone away from me!”

So none [of them] were with [Joseph] when he made himself known to his brothers. 2 But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household [soon] heard of it.

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Joseph said to his brothers,“I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?”

But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.

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Then Joseph said to his brothers,“Please come near me.” And they [did so].

“I am Joseph, your brother,” he said,“the one you sold into Egypt! 5 And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you. 6 For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting. 7 God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[fn] 8 Therefore 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 all the land of Egypt.

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