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Then each man put his bag down on the ground in a hurry and opened it.

Then they tore their clothes. After each man loaded his donkey again, they returned to the city.

When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell to the ground in front of him.

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?'

We said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a young brother who was born to him when he was old. Now his brother is dead. So he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'

But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. For if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

So let your servant stay and work for my lord, instead of the boy. Let the boy go home with his brothers.

Then Joseph could not hide his feelings in front of all who stood by him. He cried, "Send all the people away from me." So no one was with him when Joseph told his brothers who he was.

Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were afraid in front of him.

Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me." So they came near. He said, "I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

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

Then he put his arms around his brother Benjamin and cried. And Benjamin cried on his neck.

Joseph kissed all his brothers and cried over them. After that his brothers talked with him.

When the news was heard in Pharaoh's house that Joseph's brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.

To his father he sent ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and things his father would need as he traveled.

Then he sent his brothers away. As they left he said to them, "Do not be mad at each other on the way."

So Israel traveled with all he had to Beersheba. There he gave gifts to the God of his father Isaac.

They took their animals and all the things they owned from the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his children with him,

his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters. He brought all his children with him to Egypt.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,