^{4 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

^{8 Ref} 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.