11. I will provide for you there in the five years of famine that lie ahead, so that you and your household and all that are yours will not suffer want.’
12. Surely, you can see for yourselves, and Benjamin can see for himself, that it is I who am speaking to you.
13. Tell my father all about my high position in Egypt and all that you have seen. But hurry and bring my father down here.”
14. Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept on his shoulder.
15. Joseph then kissed all his brothers and wept over them; and only then were his brothers able to talk with him.
16. The news reached Pharaoh’s house: “Joseph’s brothers have come.” Pharaoh and his officials were pleased.
17. So Pharaoh told Joseph: “Say to your brothers: ‘This is what you shall do: Load up your animals and go without delay to the land of Canaan.
18. There get your father and your households, and then come to me; I will assign you the best land in Egypt, where you will live off the fat of the land.’
19. Instruct them further: ‘Do this. Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your children and your wives and bring your father back here.