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And he raised up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mothers son, and said to them, Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? And he said. May God be gracious to you, my son.

And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lords servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.

Now do not be grieved, nor displeased with yourselves, that you sold me here; for it was to provide for you that God sent me before you.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant on the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord over all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Hasten, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord over all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay;

AND Israel journeyed with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And God spoke to Israel in a vision of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Then he said to him. I am El, the God of your father; fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great people;

And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Bring them near me, and I will bless them.

And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face; and, 1o, God has shown me your children also.

And Jacob blessed Joseph his son, saying, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked righteously, the God who has supplied my needs from my youth to this day,

And he blessed them that day, saying, By you shall Israel bless, and they shall say, May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh; and thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Then Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I am dying, but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

May the God of your father help you and the Almighty bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb;

Thus shall you say to Joseph, Forgive, we pray you now, the trespass of your brothers and their sins; for they did evil to you; and now forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

But Joseph said to them, Fear not; for I am a servant of God.

But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it for good, to do as he has done this day, to save many lives.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying; and God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.