11. I will support you there, so you, your household, and everyone with you won’t starve, since the famine will still last five years.’
12. You and my brother Benjamin have seen with your own eyes that I’m speaking to you.
13. Tell my father about my power in Egypt and about everything you’ve seen. Hurry and bring my father down here."
14. He threw his arms around his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.
15. He kissed all of his brothers and wept, embracing them. After that, his brothers were finally able to talk to him.
16. When Pharaoh’s household heard the message "Joseph’s brothers have arrived," both Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.
17. Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Give your brothers these instructions: Load your pack animals and go back to the land of Canaan.
18. Get your father and your households and come back to me. Let me provide you with good things from the land of Egypt so that you may eat the land’s best food.
19. Give them these instructions too: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your children and wives, and pick up your father and come back.
20. Don’t worry about your possessions because you will have good things from the entire land of Egypt."
21. So Israel’s sons did that. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh instructed, and he gave them provisions for the road.
22. To all of them he gave a change of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
23. To his father he sent ten male donkeys carrying goods from Egypt, ten female donkeys carrying grain and bread, and rations for his father for the road.