6. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
7. God sent me ahead of you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8. “So now it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of his entire household and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9. Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay.
10. And you will dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, along with your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
11. I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine to come, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.” ’