Genesis 45 · Parashat Vayigash

Then Yosef could not restrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And no man stood with him, while Yosef made himself known to his brethren.

And he wept aloud: and Miżrayim and the house of Par῾o heard.

And Yosef said to his brethren, I am Yosef: does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

And Yosef said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Yosef your brother, whom you sold into Miżrayim.

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are five more years, in which there shall neither be ploughing nor harvest.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and He has made me a father to Par῾o, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Miżrayim.

Hasten, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy son Yosef, God has made me lord of all Miżrayim: come down to me, do not delay:

and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

and there will I nourish thee; for there are still five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Binyamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Miżrayim, and of all that you have seen: and you shall hasten and bring down my father here.

And he fell on his brother Binyamin’s neck, and wept; and Binyamin wept on his neck.

And he kissed all his brethren, and wept on them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

And the report was heard in Par῾o’s house, saying, Yosef’s brethren are come: and it pleased Par῾o well, and his servants.

And Par῾o said to Yosef, Say to thy brethren, Do this: load your beasts, and go, get you to the land of Kena῾an;

and take your father and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Miżrayim, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

Now thou art commanded, do this; take wagons out of the land of Miżrayim for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

Also give no thought to your goods; for the good of all the land of Miżrayim is yours.

And the children of Yisra᾽el did so: and Yosef gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Par῾o, and gave them provision for the way.

To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing; but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of clothing.

And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Miżrayim and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and food for his father by the way.

So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said to them, See that you do not fall out by the way.

And they went up out of Miżrayim, and came to the land of Kena῾an to Ya῾aqov their father,

and told him, saying, Yosef is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Miżrayim. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.

And they told him all the words of Yosef, which he had said to them: and when he saw the wagons which Yosef had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ya῾aqov their father revived:

and Yisra᾽el said, It is enough; Yosef my son is still alive: I will go and see him before I die.