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They had gone out from the city, not having gone far, and Joseph said to the one over his house, Rise up, pursue the men and overtake them, and say to them, Why have you repaid evil for good?

And they hurried, and each one brought down his sack to the earth. And each one opened his sack.

And they tore their clothes; and they each one loaded his ass and returned to the city.

And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. And they fell before him to the earth.

My lord asked his servants, saying, Is there a brother or a father to you?

And we said to my lord, An aged father is to us, and a young child of his old age; and his brother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.

And we said to my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father; and if he should leave his father , he will die.

And now when I come to your servant, my father, and the youth is not with us and his soul being bound to his soul,

And now please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the youth; and let the youth go up with his brothers.

And Joseph was not able to control himself in regard to those standing beside him. And he called out, Cause every man to go out from me. And no man stood before him as Joseph was making himself known to his brothers.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Is my father still alive? And his brothers were not able to answer him, for they trembled before him.

And Joseph said to his brothers, Now come near to me. And they came near. And he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

And now you did not send me here, but God. And He has placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for a lord in all his house, and a ruler in all the land of Egypt.

And he fell on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

And he kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. And afterwards his brothers spoke with him.

And the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, The brothers of Joseph have come. And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants.

And to his father he sent this: ten asses bearing the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses bearing grain, and bread, and food for his father for the way.

And he sent his brothers away; and they went. And he said to them, Do not quarrel along the way.

And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. And his heart froze up, for he did not believe them.

And Israel and all which were to him departed, and he came to Beer-sheba. And he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.