Joseph reveals his identity
45
📚Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood near him, and he cried out, “Get everyone away from me”. So no one was standing near him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2 📚And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the household of Pharaoh heard it.3 📚And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still living?” And his brothers could not answer him, for they were alarmed in his presence.
4 📚And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me”. And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 📚So do not be grieved now, or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6 📚For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor reaping. 7 📚And God sent me before you to preserve descendants on the earth for you, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 📚“So now it was not you who sent me here, but God. And he has made me like a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
45:5-8 Joseph looked beyond his afflictions and the sin of his brothers, and saw the hand of God working good. He had a wonderfully clear and true view of God’s complete sovereignty in the affairs of men, and believed the truth of Rom 8:28 before Paul ever wrote it. Note at 50:20.⚜
9 📚Hurry, and go up 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. Do not delay. 10 📚And you will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you, and your children, and your grandchildren, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have.
45:10 Goshen was a choice part of Egypt and very fertile – v 20.⚜
11 📚And I will provide for you there, so that you and your household do not come to destitution, for there will be five more years of famine.’
12 📚“And, look, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, can see that it is my mouth that is speaking to you. 13 📚And you must tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. And you must hurry and bring my father down here”.
14 📚And he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept 📖 on his neck. 15 📚And he kissed all his brothers, and wept over them. After that his brothers talked with him 📖.
The brothers bring Jacob to Egypt
16 📚And someone took the news of this to Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come”. And it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
17 📚And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do like this: load up your animals and go to the land of Canaan. 18 📚And bring your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land 📖. 19 📚Now you are commanded. Do like this: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 📚Also do not be concerned about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’ ”
21 📚And the children of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the road. 22 📚To each and every one of them he gave changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver 📖, and five changes of clothing. 23 📚And he sent these things for his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and food for his father on the road. 24 📚So he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “See that you do not quarrel on the way 📖”.
25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to their father Jacob, 26 📚and told him the news, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is the ruler over all the land of Egypt”. And Jacob’s heart became numb 📖, because he did not believe them. 27 📚And they told him all of Joseph’s words which he had said to them. And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived, 28 📚and Israel said, “It is enough. My son Joseph is still alive! I will go and see him before I die”.