¹⁴ For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

⁴ So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, ^(A)whom you sold into Egypt. ⁵ And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, ^(B)for God sent me before you to preserve life. ⁶ For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are ^(C)yet five years in which there will be neither ^(D)plowing nor harvest. ⁷ And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. ⁸ So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ^(E)ruler over all the land of Egypt.

^22 (A)For the Lord will not forsake his people, ^(B)for his great name's sake, because ^(C)it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

^20 (A)At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house, ²¹ and ^(B)when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. ²² And Moses ^(C)was instructed in ^(D)all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was ^(E)mighty in his words and deeds.

²³ “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart ^(F)to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. ²⁵ He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.