¶ And Ioseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood about him, but commanded that they should go all out from him, and that there should be no man with him, while he uttered himself unto his brethren.
And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians and the house of Pharao heard it.
And he said unto his brethren: I am Ioseph: doth my father yet live? But his brethren could not answer him, for they were abashed at his presence.
And Ioseph said unto his brethren: come near to me, and they came near. And he said: I am Ioseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt.
And now be not grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes, that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save life.
For this is the second year of dearth in the land, and five more are behind in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So now it was not ye that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me father unto Pharao and lord over all his house, and ruler in all the land of Egypt.
Haste you and go to my father and tell him, this sayeth thy son Ioseph: God hath made me lord over all Egypt. Come down unto me and tarry not.
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gosan and be by me: both thou and thy children, and thy children's children: and thy sheep, and beasts and all that thou hast.
There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet five years of dearth, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.
Behold, your eyes do see, and the eyes also of my brother Ben Iamin, that I speak to you by mouth.
Therefore tell my father of all my honour which I have in Egypt and of all that ye have seen, and make haste and bring in father hither.
And he fell on his brother Ben Iamin's neck and wept, and Ben Iamin wept on his neck.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that, his brethren talked with him.
¶ And when the tidings was come unto Pharao's house that Ioseph's brethren were come, it pleased Pharao well and all his servants.
And Pharao spake unto Ioseph: say unto thy brethren, this do ye: lade your beasts and get you hence. And when ye be come unto the land of Canaan,
take your father and your households and come unto me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
And commanded also. This do ye: take chariots with you out of the land of Egypt, for your children and for your wives: and bring your father and come.
Also, regard not your stuff, for the goods of all the land of Egypt shall be yours.
And the children of Israel did even so. And Ioseph gave them chariots at the commandment of Pharao, and gave them vitaille also to spend by the way.
And he gave unto each of them change of raiment: but unto Ben Iamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment.
And unto his father he sent after the same manner: ten he asses laden with goods out of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn, bread and meat: to serve his father by the way.
So sent he his brethren away, and they departed. And he said unto them: see that ye fall not out by the way.
¶ And they departed from Egypt and came into the land of Canaan unto Iacob their father, and told him saying.
Ioseph is yet alive and is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Iacob's heart wavered, for he believed them not.
And they told him all the words of Ioseph which he had said unto them. But when he saw the chariots which Ioseph had sent to carry him, then his spirits revived.
And Israel said: I have enough, if Ioseph my son be yet alive: I will go and see him, yer that I die.
Praise the Everlasting Lord for His Faithful Word.