^{4 Ref} Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

^{5 Ref} Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

^{6 Ref} For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

^{7 Ref} God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

^{8 Ref} So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.