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Genesis 45:10-23 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

10. You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me — you, your children, your grandchildren, your sheep, your goats, your cattle, and everything else that you have.

11. If you are in Goshen, I can take care of you. There will still be five years of famine; and I do not want you, your family, and your livestock to starve.’ ”

12. Joseph continued, “Now all of you, and you too, Benjamin, can see that I am really Joseph.

13. Tell my father how powerful I am here in Egypt and tell him about everything that you have seen. Then hurry and bring him here.”

14. He threw his arms round his brother Benjamin and began to cry; Benjamin also cried as he hugged him.

15. Then, still weeping, he embraced each of his brothers and kissed them. After that, his brothers began to talk with him.

16. When the news reached the palace that Joseph's brothers had come, the king and his officials were pleased.

17. He said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers to load their animals and to return to the land of Canaan.

18. Let them get their father and their families and come back here. I will give them the best land in Egypt, and they will have more than enough to live on.

19. Tell them also to take wagons with them from Egypt for their wives and small children and to bring their father with them.

20. They are not to worry about leaving their possessions behind; the best in the whole land of Egypt will be theirs.”

21. Jacob's sons did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons, as the king had ordered, and food for the journey.

22. He also gave each of them a change of clothes, but he gave Benjamin 300 pieces of silver and five changes of clothes.

23. He sent his father ten donkeys loaded with the best Egyptian goods and ten donkeys loaded with corn, bread, and other food for the journey.

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