Joseph Deals Kindly with His Brothers

45 Then Joseph could not control himself in front of everyone standing before him, and he shouted, “Have everyone leave me!” So there ^[a]was no one with him ^(A)when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. ² Then ^(B)he ^[b]wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard about it. ³ And Joseph said to his brothers, “^(C)I am Joseph! ^(D)Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for ^(E)they were terrified in his presence.

⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come ^[c]closer to me.” And they came ^[d]closer. And he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you ^(F)sold to Egypt. ⁵ Now do not be grieved or angry ^[e]with yourselves because ^(G)you sold me here, for ^(H)God sent me ahead of you ^[f]to save lives. ⁶ For the famine has been in the land ^(I)these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. ⁷ So ^(J)God sent me ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on the earth, and to ^[g]keep you alive by a great deliverance. ⁸ Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a ^(K)father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁹ Hurry and go up to my father, and ^(L)say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay. ¹⁰ For you shall live in the land of ^(M)Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your ^[h]grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have. ¹¹ There I will also ^(N)provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’ ¹² Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which is speaking to you. ¹³ Now you must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and all that you have seen; and you must hurry and ^(O)bring my father down here.” ¹⁴ Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and ^(P)wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. ¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

¹⁶ Now when ^(Q)the ^[i]news was heard in Pharaoh’s house ^[j]that Joseph’s brothers had come, it ^[k]pleased Pharaoh and his servants. ¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your livestock and ^[l]go to the land of Canaan, ¹⁸ and take your father and your households and come to me; and ^(R)I will give you the ^[m]best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ ¹⁹ Now you are ordered, ‘Do this: ^[n]take ^(S)wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come. ²⁰ And do not ^[o]concern yourselves with your property, for the ^[p]best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”

²¹ Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them ^(T)wagons according to the ^[q]command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. ²² To ^[r]each of them he gave ^(U)changes of garments, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and ^(V)five changes of garments. ²³ And to his father he sent ^[s]the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the ^[t]best things of Egypt, ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and sustenance for his father ^[u]on the journey.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and ^[v]as they departed, he said to them, “Do not ^[w]quarrel on the journey.” ²⁵ Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob. ²⁶ And they told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” But ^[x]he was stunned, for ^(W)he did not believe them. ²⁷ When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the ^(X)wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of their father Jacob revived. ²⁸ Then Israel said, “It is enough; my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Jacob Moves to Egypt

46 So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to ^(Y)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the ^(Z)God of his father Isaac. ² And ^(AA)God spoke to Israel ^[y]in visions of the night and said, “^(AB)Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ Then He said, “^(AC)I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(AD)make you into a great nation there. ^4 (AE)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(AF)I will also assuredly bring you up again; and ^(AG)Joseph will ^[z]close your eyes.”

⁵ Then Jacob left Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the ^(AH)wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ They also took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and ^(AI)came to Egypt, Jacob and all his ^[aa]descendants with him: ⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his ^[ab]descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Those Who Came to Egypt

⁸ Now these are the ^(AJ)names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ¹⁰ And the ^(AK)sons of Simeon: ^[ac]Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, ^[ad]Jachin, ^[ae]Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹ And the sons of Levi: ^[af]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² And the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the ^(AL)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola, ^[ag]Puvvah, ^[ah]Iob, and Shimron. ¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; ^[ai]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. ¹⁶ And the ^(AM)sons of Gad: ^[aj]Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, ^[ak]Ezbon, Eri, ^[al]Arodi, and Areli. ¹⁷ And the ^(AN)sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the ^(AO)sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons. ¹⁹ The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ^20 (AP)Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. ²¹ And the ^(AQ)sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, ^[am]Ehi, Rosh, ^[an]Muppim, ^[ao]Huppim, and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all. ²³ And the sons of Dan: ^[ap]Hushim. ²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: ^[aq]Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and ^[ar]Shillem. ²⁵ These are the ^(AR)sons of Bilhah, whom ^(AS)Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all. ^26 (AT)All the people belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ^[as]his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all, ²⁷ and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were ^[at]two; ^(AU)all the people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to ^[au]guide him to ^(AV)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. ²⁹ And Joseph ^[av]prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared to him, Joseph threw himself on his neck and ^(AW)wept on his neck a long time. ³⁰ Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.” ³¹ But Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “^(AX)I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me; ³² and the men are shepherds, for they have been ^[aw]keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ ³³ When Pharaoh calls for you and says, ‘^(AY)What is your occupation?’ ³⁴ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been ^[ax](AZ)keepers of livestock since our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of ^(BA)Goshen; for every shepherd is an ^(BB)abomination to the Egyptians.”

God Praised and Pleas to Give Victory.

A Song, a Psalm of David.

The Council at Jerusalem

2 Then after an interval of fourteen years I ^(A)went up again to Jerusalem with ^(B)Barnabas, taking ^(C)Titus along also. ^2 [a]It was because of a ^(D)revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the ^(E)gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that somehow I might be ^(F)running, or had run, in vain. ³ But not even ^(G)Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was ^(H)compelled to be circumcised. ⁴ Yet it was a concern because of the ^(I)false brothers secretly brought in, who ^(J)had sneaked in to spy on our ^(K)freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to ^(L)enslave us. ⁵ But we did not yield in subjection to them, even for an hour, so that ^(M)the truth of the gospel would remain with you. ⁶ But from those who ^[b]were of considerable ^(N)repute (what they were makes no difference to me; ^(O)God shows no favoritism)—well, those who were of repute contributed nothing to me. ⁷ But on the contrary, seeing that I had been ^(P)entrusted with the ^(Q)gospel ^[c]to the uncircumcised, just as ^(R)Peter had been ^[d]to the circumcised ⁸ (for He who was at work for Peter in his ^(S)apostleship ^[e]to the circumcised was at work for me also to the Gentiles), ⁹ and recognizing ^(T)the grace that had been given to me, ^[f](U)James and ^[g](V)Cephas and John, who were ^(W)reputed to be ^(X)pillars, gave to me and ^(Y)Barnabas the ^(Z)right ^[h]hand of fellowship, so that we might ^(AA)go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ They only asked us to remember the poor—^(AB)the very thing I also was eager to do.

Peter (Cephas) Opposed by Paul

¹¹ But when ^(AC)Cephas came to ^(AD)Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he ^[i]stood condemned. ¹² For prior to the coming of some men from ^[j](AE)James, he used to ^(AF)eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and separate himself, ^(AG)fearing those from the circumcision. ¹³ The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even ^(AH)Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they ^(AI)were not ^[k]straightforward about ^(AJ)the truth of the gospel, I said to ^(AK)Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, ^(AL)live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?^[l]

¹⁵ “We are ^(AM)Jews by nature and not ^(AN)sinners from the Gentiles; ¹⁶ nevertheless, knowing that ^(AO)a person is not justified by works of ^[m]the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by ^(AP)faith in Christ and not by works of ^[n]the Law; since ^(AQ)by works of ^[o]the Law no ^[p]flesh will be justified. ¹⁷ But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found ^(AR)sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? ^[q](AS)Far from it! ¹⁸ For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I ^(AT)prove myself to be a wrongdoer. ¹⁹ For through ^[r]the Law I ^(AU)died to ^[s]the Law, so that I might live for God. ²⁰ I have been ^(AV)crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but ^(AW)Christ lives in me; and ^[t]the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in ^(AX)the Son of God, who ^(AY)loved me and ^(AZ)gave Himself up for me. ²¹ I do not nullify the grace of God, for ^(BA)if righteousness comes through ^[u]the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”