5. “And now, do not be grieved nor displeased with yourselves because you sold me here, for Elohim sent me before you to preserve life.
6. “For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting.
7. “And Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to give life to you by a great escape.
8. “So then, you did not send me here, but Elohim. And He has set me for a father to Pharaoh, and master of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.
9. “Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Yosĕph, “Elohim has made me master of all Mitsrayim. Come down to me, do not delay.