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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Joseph Tells His Brothers Who He Is</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.1" class="v0_45_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.45.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Joseph was no longer able to control his feelings in front of his servants, so he ordered them all to leave the room. No one else was with him when Joseph told his brothers who he was. </span><span class="v0_45_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.2" class="v0_45_2">2</span>He cried with such loud sobs that the Egyptians heard it, and the news was taken to the king's palace. </span><span class="v0_45_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.3" class="v0_45_3">3</span>Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But when his brothers heard this, they were so terrified that they could not answer. </span><span class="v0_45_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.4" class="v0_45_4">4</span>Then Joseph said to them, “Please come closer.” They did, and he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. </span><span class="v0_45_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.5" class="v0_45_5">5</span>Now do not be upset or blame yourselves because you sold me here. It was really God who sent me ahead of you to save people's lives. </span><span class="v0_45_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.6" class="v0_45_6">6</span>This is only the second year of famine in the land; there will be five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor reaping. </span><span class="v0_45_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.7" class="v0_45_7">7</span>God sent me ahead of you to rescue you in this amazing way and to make sure that you and your descendants survive. </span><span class="v0_45_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.8" class="v0_45_8">8</span>So it was not really you who sent me here, but God. He has made me the king's highest official. I am in charge of his whole country; I am the ruler of all Egypt.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.9" class="v0_45_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.45.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Now hurry back to my father and tell him that this is what his son Joseph says: ‘God has made me ruler of all Egypt; come to me without delay. </span><span class="v0_45_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.10" class="v0_45_10">10</span>You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me—you, your children, your grandchildren, your sheep, your goats, your cattle, and everything else that you have. </span><span class="v0_45_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.11" class="v0_45_11">11</span>If you are in Goshen, I can take care of you. There will still be five years of famine; and I do not want you, your family, and your livestock to starve.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.12" class="v0_45_12">12</span>Joseph continued, “Now all of you, and you too, Benjamin, can see that I am really Joseph. </span><span class="v0_45_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.13" class="v0_45_13">13</span>Tell my father how powerful I am here in Egypt and tell him about everything that you have seen. Then hurry and bring him here.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.14" class="v0_45_14">14</span>He threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and began to cry; Benjamin also cried as he hugged him. </span><span class="v0_45_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.15" class="v0_45_15">15</span>Then, still weeping, he embraced each of his brothers and kissed them. After that, his brothers began to talk with him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.16" class="v0_45_16">16</span>When the news reached the palace that Joseph's brothers had come, the king and his officials were pleased. </span><span class="v0_45_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.17" class="v0_45_17">17</span>He said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers to load their animals and to return to the land of Canaan. </span><span class="v0_45_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.18" class="v0_45_18">18</span>Let them get their father and their families and come back here. I will give them the best land in Egypt, and they will have more than enough to live on. </span><span class="v0_45_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.19" class="v0_45_19">19</span>Tell them also to take wagons with them from Egypt for their wives and small children and to bring their father with them. </span><span class="v0_45_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.20" class="v0_45_20">20</span>They are not to worry about leaving their possessions behind; the best in the whole land of Egypt will be theirs.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.21" class="v0_45_21">21</span>Jacob's sons did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons, as the king had ordered, and food for the trip. </span><span class="v0_45_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.22" class="v0_45_22">22</span>He also gave each of them a change of clothes, but he gave Benjamin three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothes. </span><span class="v0_45_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.23" class="v0_45_23">23</span>He sent his father ten donkeys loaded with the best Egyptian goods and ten donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other food for the trip. </span><span class="v0_45_24"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.24" class="v0_45_24">24</span>He sent his brothers off and as they left, he said to them, “Don't quarrel on the way.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_25"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.25" class="v0_45_25">25</span>They left Egypt and went back home to their father Jacob in Canaan. </span><span class="v0_45_26"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.26" class="v0_45_26">26</span>“Joseph is still alive!” they told him. “He is the ruler of all Egypt!” Jacob was stunned and could not believe them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_45_27"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.27" class="v0_45_27">27</span>But when they told him all that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to take him to Egypt, he recovered from the shock. </span><span class="v0_45_28"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.45.28" class="v0_45_28">28</span>“My son Joseph is still alive!” he said. “This is all I could ask for! I must go and see him before I die.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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