Genesis 45:4-46:7
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Again, Joseph said to his brethren, Come near, I pray you, to me. And they came near. And he said, (A)I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not [a]sad, neither grieved with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: (B)For God did send me before you for your preservation.
6 For now two years of famine have been through the land, and five years are behind, wherein neither shall be earing nor harvest.
7 Wherefore God sent me before you to preserve your posterity in this land, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
8 Now then you sent not me hither, but [b]God, who hath made me a father unto Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9 Haste you and go up to my father, and tell him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down to me, tarry not.
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and shalt be near me, thou and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy sheep, and thy beasts, and all that thou hast.
11 Also I will nourish thee there (for yet remain five years of famine) lest thou perish through poverty, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.
12 And behold, your eyes do see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [c]my mouth speaketh to you.
13 Therefore tell my father of all mine honor in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and make haste, and bring my father hither.
14 Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and afterward his brethren talked with him.
16 ¶ And the [d]tidings came to Pharaoh’s house, so that they said, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, This do ye, laid your beasts and depart, go to the land of Canaan,
18 And take your father, and your household, and come to me, and I will give you the [e]best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat of the [f]fat of the land.
19 And I command thee, Thus do ye, take you chariots out of the land of Egypt for your children, and for your wives, and bring your father and come.
20 Also [g]regard not your stuff: for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.
21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them chariots according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he gave them vittles also for the journey.
22 He gave them all, none except, change of raiment: but unto Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five suits of raiment.
23 And unto his father [h]likewise he sent ten he asses laden with the best things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with wheat, and bread and meat for his father by the way.
24 So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, [i]Fall not out by the way.
25 Then they went up from Egypt, and came unto the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father,
26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he also is governor over all the land of Egypt, and Jacob’s heart [j]failed: for he believed them not.
27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: but when he saw the chariots, which Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
28 And Israel said, I have enough: Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him yet I die.
46 2 God assureth Jacob of his journey into Egypt. 27 The number of his family when he went into Egypt. 29 Joseph meeteth his father. 34 He teacheth his brethren what to answer to Pharaoh.
1 Then Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and [k]offered sacrifice unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Jacob, Jacob. Who answered, I am here.
3 Then he said, I am God, the God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.
4 I will [l]go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also [m]bring thee up again, and Joseph shall [n]put his hand upon thine eyes.
5 Then Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their children, and their wives in the chariots, which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, both (C)Jacob and all his seed with him.
7 His sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Footnotes
- Genesis 45:5 This example teacheth that we must by all means comfort them, which are truly humbled and wounded for their sins.
- Genesis 45:8 Albeit God detest sin, yet he turneth man’s wickedness to serve to his glory.
- Genesis 45:12 That is, that I speak in your own language, and have none interpreter.
- Genesis 45:16 Hebrew, voice.
- Genesis 45:18 The most plentiful ground.
- Genesis 45:18 The chiefest fruits and commodities.
- Genesis 45:20 Hebrew, let not your eyes spare your vessel.
- Genesis 45:23 Or, he sent as much, to wit, silver as verse 22, and ten asses.
- Genesis 45:24 Seeing he had remitted the fault done toward him, he would not that they should accuse one another.
- Genesis 45:26 As one between hope and fear.
- Genesis 46:1 Whereby he both signifieth, that he worshipped the true God, and also that he kept in his heart the possession of that land from whence present necessity drove him.
- Genesis 46:4 Conducting thee by my power.
- Genesis 46:4 In thy posterity.
- Genesis 46:4 Shall shut thine eyes when thou diest: which appertained to him that was most dearest, or chief of the kindred.
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