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Genesis 45:20-28 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

20. They can leave their possessions behind, because they will be given the best of everything in Egypt.

21. Jacob's sons agreed to do what the king had said. And Joseph gave them wagons and food for their trip home, just as the king had ordered.

22. Joseph gave some new clothes to each of his brothers, but to Benjamin he gave five new outfits and three hundred pieces of silver.

23. To his father he sent ten donkeys loaded with the best things in Egypt, and ten other donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other food for the return trip.

24. Then he sent his brothers off and told them, “Don't argue on the way home!”

25. Joseph's brothers left Egypt, and when they arrived in Canaan,

26. they told their father that Joseph was still alive and was the ruler of Egypt. But their father was so surprised that he could not believe them.

27. Then they told him everything Joseph had said. When he saw the wagons Joseph had sent, he felt much better

28. and said, “Now I can believe you! My son Joseph must really be alive, and I will get to see him before I die.”

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