"There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf."

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh [are] one; God has shown Pharaoh what He [is] about to do:

"And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing [is] established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

So he told [it] to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What [is] this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?"

And they answered, "Your servant our father [is] in good health; he [is] still alive." And they bowed their heads down and prostrated themselves.

So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he [was] still there; and they fell before him on the ground.

"My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father or a brother?'

"Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph: "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry.

So Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with bread, according to the number in [their] families.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him."

'Thus you shall say to Joseph: "I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you." ' Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for [am] I in the place of God?

"Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones." And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

" And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him

"Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.

"And the second [time] Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to the Pharaoh.

And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and [some] of the stars to the ground, and trampled them.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,