1. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me: and there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brethren.
2. And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3. And Joseph said to his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
4. And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you: and they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in which there shall neither be tillage nor harvest.
7. And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.