10. Live in the land of Goshen where you will be near me. Your children, your grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all that you have will also be near me.
11. I will care for you during the next five years of hunger so that you and your family and all that you have will not starve.’
12. “Now you can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that the one speaking to you is really Joseph.
13. So tell my father about how powerful I have become in Egypt. Tell him about everything you have seen. Now hurry and bring him back to me.”
14. Then Joseph hugged his brother Benjamin and cried, and Benjamin cried also.
15. And Joseph kissed all his brothers and cried as he hugged them. After this, his brothers talked with him.
16. When the king of Egypt and his officers learned that Joseph’s brothers had come, they were very happy.
17. So the king said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers to load their animals and go back to the land of Canaan
18. and bring their father and their families back here to me. I will give them the best land in Egypt, and they will eat the best food we have here.
19. Tell them to take some wagons from Egypt for their children and their wives and to bring their father back also.
20. Tell them not to worry about bringing any of their things with them, because we will give them the best of what we have in Egypt.”
21. So the sons of Israel did this. Joseph gave them wagons as the king had ordered and food for their trip.
22. He gave each brother a change of clothes, but he gave Benjamin five changes of clothes and about seven and one-half pounds of silver.
23. Joseph also sent his father ten donkeys loaded with the best things from Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other food for his father on his trip back.