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He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."

Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not I; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Pharaoh's dreams are one and the same; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.

Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find anyone else like this—one in whom is the spirit of God?"

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

The second he named Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortunes."

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

He said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in my sack!" At this they lost heart and turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

He replied, "Rest assured, do not be afraid; your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your sacks for you; I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.

Then he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"

And Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; here we are then, my lord's slaves, both we and also the one in whose possession the cup has been found."

And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

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

Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.