Bereshit 44:18-46:7 בראשית מ״ד:י״ח-מ״ו:ז׳

Yehudah approached him [Yoseif] and said, Please my master, let your servant speak a word in my master’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

My master asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or brother?

We said to my master, We have a father who is old, and a young child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone survives of his mother, and his father loves him.

You said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.

We said to my master, the lad cannot leave his father, for if he left his father, he would die.

You [then] said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you shall not see my face again.

When we went to your servant, my father, we told him of my master’s words.

Our father said, Go back and buy us a little food.

We said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, we will go down, for we cannot see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.

Your servant, my father said to us, You know that my wife [Rochel] bore me two sons.

One has [already] left me, and I said, surely he is torn to pieces. I have not seen him until now.

If you take this one also away from me, and misfortune befall him, you will bring my white head down to the grave in evil.

And now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the lad is not with us; his soul is bound up with the lad’s soul.

When he sees that the lad is not [with us], he will die. Your servants will have brought down the white head of your servant, our father, to the grave in sorrow.

For your servant became surety for the lad, to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned to my father for all time.

And now, let your servant remain as a slave to my master instead of the lad. Let the lad go up with his brothers.

For how shall I go up to my father when the lad is not with me; lest I see the evil that would befall my father.

Yoseif could not contain his emotions in the presence of all who stood before him, and he cried out Let everyone leave my presence. No man remained with him, when Yoseif made himself known to his brothers.

He wept aloud, and the Egyptians heard about it, and the house of Pharaoh [also] heard.

Yoseif said to his brothers, I am Yoseif, is my father still alive? His brothers could not answer him for they were shocked at his presence.

[Then] Yoseif said to his brothers, Please come close to me. They came close [to him] and he said, I am Yoseif your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

Now do not worry, and do not be angry with yourselves that you sold me here; for it was to preserve life that Elohim sent me [here] before you.

For it is [now] two years that there has been famine in the land; and for another five years there will be no plowing or harvest.

Elohim sent me [here] before you to insure your survival in the land, and to keep you alive for a great deliverance.

Now [then] it was not you that sent me here, but Elohim; and He has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and master of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Hurry, go up to my father and tell him: this is what your son, Yoseif, says, Elohim has made me master of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.

You will dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be close to me—you, your children, your grandchildren, your sheep, your cattle and all that you own.

I will provide for you there, since there will be another five years of famine; lest you become impoverished together with your household and all that is yours.

Behold, your eyes see it along with my brother Binyomin’s eyes, that I speak to you with my own mouth.

Tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and all that you saw. Hurry and bring my father down here.

He [then] fell upon his brother Binyomin’s neck and wept, and Binyomin wept upon his neck.

He kissed all his brothers and wept upon [their necks]. After that his brothers spoke with him.

The news was heard in Pharaoh’s house that Yoseif’s brothers had come. This was good [news] in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants.

Pharaoh said to Yoseif, Tell your brothers to do this: load up your beasts, and go and enter the land of Canaan.

Bring your father and your households and come to me; and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt. You will eat of the fat of the land.

Now you are commanded [to order (your) brothers to] do the following: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

Do not be concerned with your belongings, for the best of Egypt is yours,

The sons of Yisrael did so. Yoseif gave them wagons by order of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

To each of them, he gave a change of clothing. To Binyomin he gave three hundred silver pieces and five changes of clothing.

To his father he sent the following: Ten male donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and food for his father for the journey.

He sent his brothers off and they went. He said to them, Do not be troubled along the way.

They went up from Egypt, and they came to the land of Canaan, to their father Yaakov.

They told him saying, Yoseif is still alive, and he is ruler of all the land of Egypt. His [Yaakov’s] heart stood still, for he could not believe them.

They told him all the words of Yoseif which he had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Yoseif had sent to carry him. [Then] the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived.

Yisrael said, It is too much ! My son Yoseif still lives. I will go and see him before I die.

Yisrael journeyed with all that he possessed, and he came to Beer Sheva. He offered sacrifices [there] to the God of his father Yitzchok.

Elohim said to Yisrael in a night vision, and He said, Yaakov, Yaakov. And he said, Here I am.

He said I am the Almighty, God of your father. Do not be afraid to do down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again. Yoseif shall place his hand upon your eyes.

Yaakov rose up from Beer Sheva. The sons of Yisrael transported their father Yaakov, their children, their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

They took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt; Yaakov and all his descendants with him.

His sons and grandsons were with him. His daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.