1Then Joseph couldn`t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" There stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn`t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
4Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5Now don`t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6For these two years has the famine been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
7God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
