Joseph Deals Kindly with His Brothers

45 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, “Have everyone go out from me.” So there ^[a]was no man with him ^(A)when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. ^2 (B)He ^[b]wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it. ³ Then 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 dismayed at 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 into Egypt. ⁵ Now do not be grieved or angry ^[e]with yourselves, because ^(G)you sold me here, for ^(H)God sent me before you to preserve life. 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 (J)God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great ^[f]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, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay. ¹⁰ You shall ^[g]live in the land of ^(M)Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children 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 He kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

¹⁶ Now when ^(Q)the ^[h]news was heard in Pharaoh’s house ^[i]that Joseph’s brothers had come, it ^[j]pleased Pharaoh and his servants. ¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and ^[k]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 ^[l]best of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat of the land.’ ¹⁹ Now you are ordered, ‘Do this: ^[m]take ^(S)wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come. ²⁰ Do not ^[n]concern yourselves with your goods, for the ^[o]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 ^[p]command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. ²² To ^[q]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 To his father he sent ^[r]as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the ^[s]best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and sustenance for his father ^[t]on the journey.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and ^[u]as they departed, he said to them, “Do not ^[v]quarrel on the journey.” ²⁵ Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob. ²⁶ They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” But ^[w]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, 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 (AA)God spoke to Israel ^[x]in visions of the night and said, “^(AB)Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ 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 a great nation there. ^4 (AE)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(AF)I will also surely bring you up again; and ^(AG)Joseph will ^[y]close your eyes.”

⁵ Then Jacob arose from 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 took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and ^(AI)came to Egypt, Jacob and all his ^[z]descendants with him: ⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his ^[aa]descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Those Who Came to Egypt

⁸ Now these are the ^(AJ)names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. ⁹ The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. ¹⁰ The ^(AK)sons of Simeon: ^[ab]Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and ^[ac]Jachin and ^[ad]Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹ The sons of Levi: ^[ae]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the ^(AL)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tola and ^[af]Puvvah and ^[ag]Iob and Shimron. ¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; ^[ah]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. ¹⁶ The ^(AM)sons of Gad: ^[ai]Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and ^[aj]Ezbon, Eri and ^[ak]Arodi and Areli. ¹⁷ The ^(AN)sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and 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 The ^(AQ)sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, ^[al]Ehi and Rosh, ^[am]Muppim and ^[an]Huppim and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all. ²³ The sons of Dan: ^[ao]Hushim. ²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: ^[ap]Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and ^[aq]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 persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ^[ar]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 ^[as]two; ^(AU)all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to ^(AV)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. ²⁹ Joseph ^[at]prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared ^[au]before him, he fell 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 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 ^[av]keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ ³³ When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘^(AY)What is your occupation?’ ³⁴ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been ^[aw](AZ)keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may ^[ax]live in the land of ^(BA)Goshen; for every shepherd is ^[ay](BB)loathsome to the Egyptians.”

God Praised and Supplicated 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 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 But it was because of the ^(I)false brethren secretly brought in, who ^(J)had sneaked in to spy out our ^(K)liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to ^(L)bring us into bondage. ⁵ But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that ^(M)the truth of the gospel would remain with you. ⁶ But from those who ^[b]were of high ^(N)reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; ^(O)God ^[c]shows no partiality)—well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me. ⁷ But on the contrary, seeing that I had been ^(P)entrusted with the ^(Q)gospel ^[d]to the uncircumcised, just as ^(R)Peter had been ^[e]to the circumcised ⁸ (for He who effectually worked for Peter in his ^(S)apostleship ^[f]to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the Gentiles), ⁹ and recognizing ^(T)the grace that had been given to me, ^[g](U)James and ^(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 certain men from ^[j](AE)James, he used to ^(AF)eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, ^(AG)fearing ^[k]the party of 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 ^[l]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? ^[m]

¹⁵ “We are ^(AM)Jews by nature and not ^(AN)sinners from among the Gentiles; ¹⁶ nevertheless knowing that ^(AO)a man is not justified by the works of ^[n]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 the works of ^[o]the Law; since ^(AQ)by the works of ^[p]the Law no ^[q]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 minister of sin? ^(AS)May it never be! ¹⁸ For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I ^(AT)prove myself to be a transgressor. ¹⁹ For through ^[r]the Law I ^(AU)died to ^[s]the Law, so that I might live to 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.”