So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
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Genesis 44:31
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sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
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Genesis 44:32
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Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
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Genesis 44:33
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Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
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Genesis 44:34
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For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
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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 45:2
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But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
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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 45:5
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And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
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Genesis 45:6
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For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
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Genesis 45:7
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God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
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Genesis 45:8
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Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of 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 45:10
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You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
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Genesis 45:11
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And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
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Genesis 45:12
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Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.
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Genesis 45:13
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Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
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Genesis 45:14
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Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
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Genesis 45:15
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Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.
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