Their father Jacob said to them, &#8220;You are making me childless! Joseph is gone.<n id="1" /> Simeon is gone.<n id="2" /> And now you want to take<n id="3" /> Benjamin! Everything is against me.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt<n id="1" /> and stood before Joseph.

<p class="bodytext">The servant in charge<n id="1" /> brought the men into Joseph&#8217;s house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. Then he gave food to their donkeys.

They got their gifts ready for Joseph&#8217;s arrival<n id="1" /> at noon, for they had heard<n id="2" /> that they were to have a meal<n id="3" /> there.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside,<n id="1" /> and they bowed down to the ground before him.

Joseph hurried out, for he was overcome by affection for his brother<n id="1" /> and was at the point of tears.<n id="2" /> So he went to his room and wept there.p>

Then put<n id="1" /> my cup &#8211; the silver cup &#8211; in the mouth of the youngest one&#8217;s sack, along with the money for his grain.&#8221; He did as Joseph instructed.<n id="2" />p>

Joseph said to them, &#8220;What did you think you were doing?<n id="1" /> Don&#8217;t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now it was reported<n id="1" /> in the household of Pharaoh, &#8220;Joseph&#8217;s brothers have arrived.&#8221; It pleased<n id="2" /> Pharaoh and his servants.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;Say to your brothers, &#8216;Do this: Load your animals and go<n id="1" /> to the land of Canaan!

<p class="bodytext">So the sons of Israel did as he said.<n id="1" /> Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed,<n id="2" /> and he gave them provisions for the journey.

They told him, &#8220;Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!&#8221; Jacob was stunned,<n id="1" /> for he did not believe them.

Counting the two sons<n id="1" /> of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.<n id="2" />p>

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him,<n id="1" /> he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.p>

<p class="bodytext">Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joseph went and told Pharaoh, &#8220;My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land ofp> <p class="bodytext">Canaan. They are now<n id="1" /> in the land of Goshen.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses,<n id="2" /> just as Pharaoh had commanded.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father&#8217;s household, according to the number of their little children.p>

<p class="bodytext">Joseph said to the people, &#8220;Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate<n id="1" /> the land.

When Jacob was told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your son Joseph has just<n id="2" /> come to you,&#8221; Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.