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And it came to pass that Judah and his brethren came to the house of Joseph, for he was yet there; and they fell before him on the ground.
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And Joseph said unto them: What deed is this that ye have done? Knew ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
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¶ And Judah said: What shall we say unto my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves?
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Ha’Elohima hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also with whom the cup is found.
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And Joseph said: Far be it that I should do so; but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
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¶ Then Judah came near unto him and said: O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my the ears of my lord, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.
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My lord asked his servants, saying: Have ye a father or a brother?
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And we said unto my lord: We have a father, an old man; and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
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And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
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And we said unto my lord: The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
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And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
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And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant, my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little food.
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And we said: We cannot go down; if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the face of that man, except our youngest brother be with us.
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And thy servant, my father, said unto us: Ye know that my wife bare me two sons; and the one went outa from me, and I said: Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since;
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And if ye take this also from me and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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Now, therefore, when I come to thy servant, my father, and the lad be not with us, seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life,
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It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant, our father, with sorrow to the grave.
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For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying: If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.
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¶ Now, therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren.
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For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me, lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father?
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And Joseph said unto him: Yea, and so it shall be that thee and thy seed after shall serve me and my seed for all days until that day in the which I AMa shall come unto the earth and free all bond between thy seed and my seed, that all shall be free.
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And so shall it be that in the last days a remnant of thy seed and a remnant of my seed shall be profitable before YHVHa.
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¶ And the brothers of Joseph marveled, for these words he spoke in their own tongue and not through the interpreter;
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And Judah spoke again, saying: What manner is this? And they saw that Joseph knew all that they had said from the beginning.
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¶ And so it was that Joseph could not refrain himself any longer before they that stood by him; and Joseph commanded with a loud voice: Cause every man to go out from me.
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And so it was that Joseph was alone there in the room, and he made himself known unto his brethren; and so great were his tears that even the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
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And his brethren were afraid, for they understood not and thought this man possessed by an evil spirita.
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¶ And after some time had passed, Joseph spoke unto his brethren, saying: I am Joseph. Doth my father yet live?
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And his brethren could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence.
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And Joseph said unto his brethren: Come near to me, I pray you; and they came near.
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And he said: See that it is I, and that I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold;
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Now, therefore, be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither; for Elohima did send me before you to preserve life:
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For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years in the which there shall neither be plowing nor harvest.
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And even as I did dream the dream that ye should bow before me, so did Elohim send me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
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So now it was not you that sent me hither, but Ha’Elohima; and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
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¶ Now make haste, and go up to our father, and say unto him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: Ha'Elohim hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me; tarry not;
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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;
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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.
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¶ And still the elder brothers of Joseph, they that had sold him, knew not what to think, and they stood astonished.
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And seeing this, Joseph spoke again unto them, saying: Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you!
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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.
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And he fell upon the neck of his brother, Benjamin, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
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And seeing that it was Joseph, their brother, and that he bore no malice towards them, they rejoiced;
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And Joseph kissed all his brethren and wept upon them; and after that, his brethren made arrangements with him.
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¶ And it came to pass that Joseph sent his brethren back unto the house of Jacob, their father, and they departed; and he said unto them: See that ye fall not out by the way.