Genesis 45:3-8

1. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

2. 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

3. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

4. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

5. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

6. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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