Genesis 45

1Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.Cross-references: Gen 43:30 · 2Sam 1:20 · Isa 42:14 · Jer 20:9 · Matt 18:15 · Acts 10:41 · +1 more

2He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.Cross-references: Gen 46:29 · Num 14:1 · Ruth 1:9 · 2Ki 20:3 · Acts 20:37

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.Cross-references: Job 4:5 · Job 23:15 · Zech 12:10 · Matt 14:26 · Mark 6:50 · Luke 5:8 · +4 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 37:28 · Gen 50:18 · Matt 14:27 · Acts 9:5

5Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.Cross-references: Gen 45:7 · Gen 47:25 · Gen 50:20 · 1Sam 1:19 · 2Sam 12:12 · 2Sam 16:10 · +10 more

6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.Cross-references: Gen 41:29 · Gen 41:54 · Gen 41:56 · Gen 47:18 · Gen 47:23 · Ex 34:21 · +3 more

7God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.Cross-references: Judg 15:18 · 1Chr 11:14 · Ps 18:50 · Ps 44:4 · Acts 7:35

8So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 41:39 · Gen 45:5 · Judg 17:10 · Job 29:16 · Ps 105:21 · John 15:16 · +2 more

9Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.Cross-references: Gen 45:13 · Gen 45:19

10You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.Cross-references: Gen 46:28 · Gen 46:34 · Ex 8:22 · Ex 9:26 · John 14:2 · John 17:24

11There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’Cross-references: Gen 47:6 · Gen 47:12 · Matt 15:5 · Mark 7:9 · 1Tim 5:4

12Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.Cross-references: Gen 42:23 · Luke 24:39 · John 20:27

13You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”Cross-references: John 17:24 · Acts 7:14 · 1Pet 1:10 · Rev 21:23

14He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.Cross-references: Gen 29:11 · Gen 33:4 · Gen 46:29 · Rom 1:31

15He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.Cross-references: Gen 29:11 · Gen 29:13 · Gen 33:4 · Gen 45:2 · Ex 4:27 · Ruth 1:9 · +7 more

16The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.Cross-references: Gen 16:6 · Gen 20:15 · Gen 34:18 · Gen 41:33 · Deut 1:33 · 2Sam 3:36 · +6 more

17Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.Cross-references: Gen 42:25 · Gen 44:1

18Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’Cross-references: Gen 27:28 · Gen 47:6 · Num 18:12 · Num 18:29 · Deut 32:14 · Ps 81:16 · +3 more

19Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.Cross-references: Gen 31:17 · Gen 45:27 · Gen 46:5 · Isa 49:1 · Isa 49:23

20Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”Cross-references: Gen 20:15 · Gen 45:18 · Ex 22:7 · Deut 7:16 · Deut 19:13 · Deut 19:21 · +14 more

21The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.Cross-references: Gen 45:19 · Gen 45:27 · Gen 46:5 · Ex 17:1 · Num 3:16 · Num 7:3 · +5 more

22He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.Cross-references: Gen 43:34 · Judg 14:12 · Judg 14:19 · 2Ki 5:5 · 2Ki 5:22 · Rev 6:11

23He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.Cross-references: Gen 24:10 · Gen 43:11 · Ex 16:3

24So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”Cross-references: Gen 37:22 · Gen 42:21 · Ps 133:1 · John 13:34 · Eph 4:31 · Phil 2:2 · +2 more

25They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

26They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.Cross-references: Gen 37:35 · Gen 42:36 · Gen 42:38 · Gen 44:28 · Gen 45:8 · Job 9:16 · +7 more

27They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.Cross-references: Gen 45:19 · Judg 15:19 · 1Sam 30:12 · Ps 85:6 · Isa 57:15 · Hos 6:2

28Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”Cross-references: Gen 46:30 · Luke 2:28 · John 16:21