2. And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him, for they were terrified at his presence.
4. Then Joseph said unto his brethren, Now come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me here, for God sent me before you for life.
6. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and yet there are five years in which there shall neither be plowing nor harvest.
7. And God sent me before you that you might remain in the earth and that you might be given life by great liberty.
8. So now it was not you that sent me here, but God; and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.