1
Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, "Make everyone go out from me!" So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
2
And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it.
3
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph; does my father still live?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence.
4
And Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come near to me." So they came near. Then he said: "I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5
But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.