Joseph Reveals His Identity
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” Gen 43:30-31Mat 18:15Isa 42:14Act 10:411Co 13:52Sa 1:20Jer 20:9
So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it. 2Ki 20:3Act 20:37Gen 46:29Num 14:1Rut 1:9
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” Act 7:13Act 9:5Zec 12:10Job 23:15Job 4:5Luk 24:37-38Luk 5:8Mat 14:26-27
But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. Gen 37:28Act 9:5Gen 50:18Mat 14:27
“I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you. Gen 50:20Act 7:9-15Act 2:23-24Gen 45:7-8Job 1:21Psa 105:16-17Luk 23:34Gen 47:25 For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting. Gen 47:23Gen 41:29-31Gen 41:54Gen 41:561Sa 8:12Deu 21:4Exo 34:21Gen 47:18 God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 1 Act 7:35Psa 44:4Jdg 15:18Psa 18:501Ch 11:14 Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Jhn 15:16Rom 9:16Jhn 19:11Psa 105:21-22Jdg 17:10Job 29:16Gen 41:39-48Gen 45:5
Joseph Sends for His Father
Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay. Gen 45:19-20Gen 45:13 You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own. Exo 8:22Exo 9:26Gen 46:34Gen 46:28-29Jhn 17:24Jhn 14:2-3 And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’ Gen 47:12Gen 47:6Mat 15:5-61Ti 5:4Mrk 7:9-12
Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you. Gen 42:23Jhn 20:27Luk 24:39 Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.” Act 7:141Pe 1:10-12Jhn 17:24Rev 21:23
Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced. Gen 29:11Gen 33:4Gen 46:29Rom 1:31 Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him. Luk 15:201Sa 10:11Sa 20:412Sa 14:33Act 20:37Exo 4:27Gen 29:11Gen 29:13
Pharaoh Invites Jacob to Egypt
When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased. 2Ch 30:42Sa 3:36Act 6:5Act 7:13Deu 1:33Est 1:21Est 2:4Est 5:14
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan. Gen 42:25-26Gen 44:1-2 Then bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.’ Gen 27:28Gen 47:6Num 18:12Num 18:29Psa 147:14Deu 32:14Isa 28:1Isa 28:4 You are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back. Gen 46:5Gen 45:27Gen 31:17-18Isa 49:1Isa 49:23 But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’” Isa 1:19Luk 17:311Sa 10:221Sa 25:131Sa 30:24Deu 19:13Deu 19:21Deu 7:16
So the sons of Israel did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he also gave them provisions for their journey. Gen 45:192Ch 35:162Ch 8:13Ecc 8:2Exo 17:1Ezk 23:24Gen 45:27Gen 46:5 He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver 2and five sets of clothes. Gen 43:342Ki 5:52Ki 5:22-23Jdg 14:12Jdg 14:19Rev 6:11 And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey. Exo 16:3Gen 24:10Gen 43:11
Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!” 1Th 5:13Col 3:12-13Eph 4:31-32Gen 42:21-22Jhn 13:34-35Php 2:2-5Psa 133:1-3Gen 37:22
The Revival of Jacob
So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. “Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” Gen 44:28Gen 37:35Gen 42:36Gen 42:38Gen 45:8-9Job 29:24Job 9:16Jon 2:7
But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them. However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived. Gen 45:19Isa 57:15Psa 85:61Sa 30:12Hos 6:2Jdg 15:19
“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.” Luk 2:28-30Gen 46:30Jhn 16:21-22