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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 45 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/45.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/45-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Genesis 45</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/44.htm" title="Genesis 44">◄</a> Genesis 45 <a href="../genesis/46.htm" title="Genesis 46">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/genesis/45.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Joseph Reveals His Identity</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Joseph could stand it no longer. There were many people in the room, and he said to his attendants, “Out, all of you!” So he was alone with his brothers when he told them who he was. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then he broke down and wept. He wept so loudly the Egyptians could hear him, and word of it quickly carried to Pharaoh’s palace.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“I am Joseph!” he said to his brothers. “Is my father still alive?” But his brothers were speechless! They were stunned to realize that Joseph was standing there in front of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Please, come closer,” he said to them. So they came closer. And he said again, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>This famine that has ravaged the land for two years will last five more years, and there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So it was God who sent me here, not you! And he is the one who made me an adviser<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> to Pharaoh—the manager of his entire palace and the governor of all Egypt.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Now hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me master over all the land of Egypt. So come down to me immediately! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me with all your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will take care of you there, for there are still five years of famine ahead of us. Otherwise you, your household, and all your animals will starve.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Joseph added, “Look! You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that I really am Joseph! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Go tell my father of my honored position here in Egypt. Describe for him everything you have seen, and then bring my father here quickly.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Weeping with joy, he embraced Benjamin, and Benjamin did the same. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Joseph kissed each of his brothers and wept over them, and after that they began talking freely with him.</p><p class="hdg">Pharaoh Invites Jacob to Egypt</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The news soon reached Pharaoh’s palace: “Joseph’s brothers have arrived!” Pharaoh and his officials were all delighted to hear this.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘This is what you must do: Load your pack animals, and hurry back to the land of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then get your father and all of your families, and return here to me. I will give you the very best land in Egypt, and you will eat from the best that the land produces.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt to carry your little children and your wives, and bring your father here. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Don’t worry about your personal belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So the sons of Jacob<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> did as they were told. Joseph provided them with wagons, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he gave them supplies for the journey. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And he gave each of them new clothes—but to Benjamin he gave five changes of clothes and 300 pieces<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He also sent his father ten male donkeys loaded with the finest products of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other supplies he would need on his journey.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So Joseph sent his brothers off, and as they left, he called after them, “Don’t quarrel about all this along the way!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they left Egypt and returned to their father, Jacob, in the land of Canaan.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Joseph is still alive!” they told him. “And he is governor of all the land of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned at the news—he couldn’t believe it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But when they repeated to Jacob everything Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, their father’s spirits revived.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/45-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Jacob exclaimed, “It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I must go and see him before I die.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">45:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">and to save you with an extraordinary rescue.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">45:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">a father.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">45:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Israel;</span><span class="ft"> also in 45:28. See note on 35:21.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">45:22 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">300 [shekels],</span><span class="ft"> about 7.5 pounds or 3.4 kilograms in weight.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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