7. God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors.
8. So it was God who sent me here, not you! And he is the one who made me an adviser to Pharaoh—the manager of his entire palace and the governor of all Egypt.
9. “Now hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me master over all the land of Egypt. So come down to me immediately!
10. You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me with all your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
11. I will take care of you there, for there are still five years of famine ahead of us. Otherwise you, your household, and all your animals will starve.’”
12. Then Joseph added, “Look! You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that I really am Joseph!
13. Go tell my father of my honored position here in Egypt. Describe for him everything you have seen, and then bring my father here quickly.”