Genesis 45
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Genesis 45:5-11

5And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

6For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

7And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

8So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

9Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.

10You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

11There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'

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