Genesis 45:4-13

New Catholic Bible

⁴ Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me!” They approached him, and he said to them, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. ⁵ But do not be grieved and do not be angry with yourselves for having sold me down here, for God sent me here before you to save your lives. ⁶ The famine has already lasted two years in the land, and there are another five years in which there will be neither plowing not reaping. ⁷ God sent me here before you, to preserve a remnant for you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

⁸ “It was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me a father to Pharaoh, lord over his whole household, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.

⁹ “Hurry, go up to my father and tell him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, “God has made me lord over all of Egypt. Come down here to me and do not delay. ¹⁰ You will live in the land of Goshen^[a] and stay near me, you and your sons and the sons of your sons, your flocks and your herds, and all your possessions. ¹¹ There I will give you provisions, for there will still be five more years to this famine, lest your family fall into poverty, you, and your family, and all you possess.” ’

¹² “Your own eyes have seen it and the eyes of my brother Benjamin have seen it: it is I who speak to you. ¹³ Tell my father all the glory that I have in Egypt and what you have seen. Hurry to bring my father down here.”