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New Living Translation (NLT)

Genesis 45
¹⁸ Then get your father and all of your families, and return here to me. I will give you the very best land in Egypt, and you will eat from the best that the land produces.’”
¹⁹ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt to carry your little children and your wives, and bring your father here.
²⁰ Don’t worry about your personal belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
²¹ So the sons of Jacob did as they were told. Joseph provided them with wagons, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he gave them supplies for the journey.
²² And he gave each of them new clothes—but to Benjamin he gave five changes of clothes and 300 pieces of silver.
²³ He also sent his father ten male donkeys loaded with the finest products of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other supplies he would need on his journey.
²⁴ So Joseph sent his brothers off, and as they left, he called after them, “Don’t quarrel about all this along the way!”
²⁵ And they left Egypt and returned to their father, Jacob, in the land of Canaan.
²⁶ “Joseph is still alive!” they told him. “And he is governor of all the land of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned at the news—he couldn’t believe it.
²⁷ But when they repeated to Jacob everything Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, their father’s spirits revived.
²⁸ Then Jacob exclaimed, “It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I must go and see him before I die.”