Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 Joseph couldn't control his emotions any longer while all his attendants were there, so he shouted out, “Everybody leave me!” So there was nobody else there when Joseph revealed who he was to his brothers.2 But he cried so loudly that the Egyptians could hear him, and they told Pharaoh's household about it.

3 “I'm Joseph!” he announced to his brothers. “Is my father still alive?” They couldn't answer him as they were so surprised to see him face to face.

4 “Please come closer to me,” he told his brothers. They came over to him. “I'm your brother Joseph who you sold into slavery in Egypt.5 But don't be worried or get angry with yourselves that you sold me to be a slave here, because it was God who sent me ahead of you to save lives.6 The country has suffered from famine for two years already, but there will be five more years with no plowing or reaping.7 God sent me ahead of you to make sure you would still have descendants, to save your lives in this miraculous way.8 So it wasn't you who sent me here, but God. He was the one who made me Pharaoh's chief advisor in charge of all his affairs, and ruler of the whole country of Egypt.

Genesis 45: 1-8