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Now therefore, let your servant stay here instead of the lad as a servant to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

THEN Joseph could no longer control his emotions before all those who stood in his presence; and he said, Cause everyone to go out from me. And there remained no one with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph your brother; is my father still alive? But his brothers could not answer him because they were afraid at his presence.

And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me; and they came near. And he said to them, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold to the Egyptians.

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.

Then he fell upon his brother Benjamins neck and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Moreover he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that, his brothers talked with him.

And the news of their meeting was reported in Pharaohs house, saying, Josephs brothers are come; and the news pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with wheat, wine, and provisions for his fathers journey.

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed; and he said to them, Quarrel not on the journey.

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

And they took their cattle and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him;

His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his sons daughters, and all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacobs first-born.

These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; the number of persons, his sons and his daughters being thirty-three in all.

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, sixteen persons.

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob, seven persons in all.

All the persons that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides Jacobs sons wives, were sixty-six persons in all;

And Joseph made ready his chariots, and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen, and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck for a while.

And Joseph said to his brothers and to his fathers household, I will go up and inform Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my fathers household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;