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Genesis 45:7-14 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

7. But God sent me ahead of you to ensure a remnant in the land and to keep you alive for a great escape.

8. So now, it wasn’t you, you didn’t send me here, but God! And He made me as a father to Pharaoh, lord over his whole house and ruler over the entire land of Egypt.

9. “Go up quickly to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son, Joseph: God has made me lord over all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t delay.

10. Then you’ll live in the land of Goshen, and be close to me, you and your children and your children’s children, your flocks and your cattle, and everything that belongs to you.

11. I’ll provide food for you there—for the famine will last another five years—otherwise you’ll lose everything, you and your household, and everything that belongs to you.’

12. And look, you and my brother Benjamin can see with your own eyes that it’s my mouth that’s speaking to you.

13. You must tell my father about all my honor in Egypt, and about all that you’ve seen. And you must quickly bring my father down here.”

14. Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept while Benjamin wept upon his neck,

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