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

Then, weeping, he took Benjamin in his arms, and Benjamin himself was weeping on Joseph's neck.

Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to him.

And news of these things went through Pharaoh's house, and it was said that Joseph's brothers were come; and it seemed good to Pharaoh and his servants.

And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

And he sent his brothers on their way, and said to them, See that you have no argument on the road.

And they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said to them; and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent for them, his spirit came back to him:

And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:

His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son;

All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.

These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.

These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.

And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

And he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh.

And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.