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- Genesis 41:55
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When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
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- Genesis 41:56
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When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
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- Genesis 41:57
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And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
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- Genesis 42:3
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So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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- Genesis 42:4
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But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
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- Genesis 42:6
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Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
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- Genesis 42:7
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And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
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- Genesis 42:8
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Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
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- Genesis 42:9
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Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
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- Genesis 42:14
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Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!
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- Genesis 42:18
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and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
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- Genesis 42:23
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They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
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- Genesis 42:25
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Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out,
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- Genesis 42:36
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Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
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- Genesis 43:15
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So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
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- Genesis 43:16
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When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”
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- Genesis 43:17
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The man did as Joseph had commanded and took the brothers to Joseph’s house.
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- Genesis 43:18
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But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
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- Genesis 43:19
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So they approached Joseph’s steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.
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- Genesis 43:24
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And the steward took the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided food for their donkeys.
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- Genesis 43:25
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Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
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- Genesis 43:26
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When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to the ground before him.
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- Genesis 43:30
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Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
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- Genesis 44:2
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Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.
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- Genesis 44:4
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They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
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- Genesis 44:14
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When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
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- Genesis 44:15
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“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
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- Genesis 45:1
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Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
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- Genesis 45:3
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Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
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- Genesis 45:4
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
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- Genesis 45:9
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Now return quickly 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 without delay.
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- Genesis 45:16
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When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.
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- Genesis 45:17
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.
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- Genesis 45:21
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So the sons of Israel did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he also gave them provisions for their journey.
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- Genesis 45:26
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“Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.
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- Genesis 45:27
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However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.
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- Genesis 45:28
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“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
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- Genesis 46:4
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I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph’s own hands will close your eyes.”
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- Genesis 46:19
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The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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- Genesis 46:20
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Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
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- Genesis 46:27
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And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
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- Genesis 46:28
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Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacob’s family arrived in the land of Goshen,
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- Genesis 46:29
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Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
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- Genesis 46:30
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Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”
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- Genesis 46:31
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Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.
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- Genesis 47:1
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So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”
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- Genesis 47:5
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,
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- Genesis 47:7
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Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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- Genesis 47:11
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So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
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- Genesis 47:12
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Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
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