Manner of Life
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
Daily Meditation
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45
Then Joseph could
not refrain himself
1 Then Joseph could
not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause
every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made
himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the
house of Pharaoh heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth
my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence. 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, 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 hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For
these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years,
in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me
before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by
a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and
he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt. 9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say
unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come
down unto me, tarry not: 10 and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and
thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s
children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 11 and there
will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy
household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. 12 And, behold, your eyes
see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh
unto you. 13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all
that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. 14 And
he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his
neck. 15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after
that his brethren talked with him.
16 And the fame
thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and
it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say
unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land
of Canaan; 18 and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I
will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the
land. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of
Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and
come. 20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is
yours. 21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave
three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 23 And to his
father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of
Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by
the way. 24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto
them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
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