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约瑟与弟兄相认

45 约瑟在左右站着的人面前情不自禁,吩咐一声说:“人都要离开我出去!”约瑟和弟兄相认的时候,并没有一人站在他面前。 他就放声大哭,埃及人和法老家中的人都听见了。 约瑟对他弟兄们说:“我是约瑟!我的父亲还在吗?”他弟兄不能回答,因为在他面前都惊惶。 约瑟又对他弟兄们说:“请你们近前来。”他们就近前来。他说:“我是你们的兄弟约瑟,就是你们所卖到埃及的。 现在,不要因为把我卖到这里自忧自恨,这是神差我在你们以先来,为要保全生命。 现在这地的饥荒已经二年了,还有五年不能耕种,不能收成。 神差我在你们以先来,为要给你们存留余种在世上,又要大施拯救,保全你们的生命。 这样看来,差我到这里来的不是你们,乃是神。他又使我如法老的父,做他全家的主,并埃及全地的宰相。 你们要赶紧上到我父亲那里,对他说:‘你儿子约瑟这样说:“神使我做全埃及的主,请你下到我这里来,不要耽延。 10 你和你的儿子、孙子,连牛群、羊群,并一切所有的,都可以住在歌珊地与我相近, 11 我要在那里奉养你。因为还有五年的饥荒,免得你和你的眷属,并一切所有的,都败落了。”’

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Joseph Makes Himself Known

45 Then Joseph could no longer control himself(A) before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!”(B) So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. And he wept(C) so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.(D)

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?”(E) But his brothers were not able to answer him,(F) because they were terrified at his presence.(G)

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.”(H) When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!(I) And now, do not be distressed(J) and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here,(K) because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.(L) For two years now there has been famine(M) in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant(N) on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[a](O)

“So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.(P) He made me father(Q) to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.(R) Now hurry(S) back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.(T) 10 You shall live in the region of Goshen(U) and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.(V) 11 I will provide for you there,(W) because five years of famine(X) are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’(Y)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:7 Or save you as a great band of survivors

45 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

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