A reading from the book of Genesis.

Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried,

Make everyone go out from me. So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his

brothers. And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it,

and Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph, is my father still alive? But his brothers could not

answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence. So Joseph said to his brothers,

come near to me, please. And they came near. And he said, I am your

brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt, and now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves

because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine has been

in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which

there will be neither plowing nor harvest, and God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on

earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God,

he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house and ruler over all the

land of Egypt. 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. You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be

near me. You and your children and your children's

children and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have, there I will provide for you,

for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have

do not come to poverty. And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, see,

that it is my mouth that speaks

to you.

You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen, hurry and bring

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