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"For how shall I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear that I may see the evil that would overtake my father."

Then Joseph could not control himself in front of everyone standing before him, and he shouted, "Have everyone leave me!" So there was no one with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

"Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to save lives.

And he kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

'And do not concern yourselves with your property, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

And to his father he sent the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and sustenance for his father on the journey.

So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

"I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also assuredly bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes."

They also took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him:

his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their little ones.

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses and the flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he fed them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.

When the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place your hand under my thigh now and deal with me in kindness and faithfulness: please do not bury me in Egypt,

but when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place." And he said, "I will do as you have said."

Now it came about after these things that Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is sick." So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

Then Joseph took them from his knees, and bowed with his face to the ground.

And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right, and brought them close to him.

Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

"And I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow."