6. For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, but there will be five more years where there is no plowing or harvest.
7. And God sent me before you all to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors.
8. So now, you yourselves did not send me here, but God put me here as father to Pharaoh and as master of all his household, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9. Hurry, 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 and do not delay.
10. You shall settle in the land of Goshen so that you will be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.
11. And I will provide for you there, because there are still five years of famine—lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.’
12. Now behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is I who am speaking to you.
13. And you must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt and all that you have seen. Now hurry and bring my father here.”
14. Then he fell upon the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.