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[44:20] And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him. [44:21] And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. [44:22] And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. [44:23] And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. [44:24] And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. [44:25] And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. [44:26] And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us. [44:27] And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: [44:28] and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since: [44:29] and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. [44:30] Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life; [44:31] it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. [44:32] For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever. [44:33] Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. [44:34] For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father. [45:1] Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. [45:2] And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. [45:3] And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. [45:4] And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. [45:5] And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. [45:6] For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. [45:7] And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.