in flocks and herds, began to need bread for his great family. So he sent his

acted as if he did not, and remembered his dream of his brother's sheaves bowing down to his sheaf. At first, he spo

eart was full of love for them, and he was soon going to show them great kindness; but when they told him that they h

home and bring the youngest brother, and the others should be ke

hers took the wheat home to their families, but that

is brothers that all this trouble had come upon them for their wickedness

er; when he besought us, we would not hear

n interpreter, and they thought he was an Egyptian. Now his heart was so full that he had to go out of the ro

inn to rest and feed their asses, one of the brothers opened his bag, and found the money tha

s they opened the bags, each one found his money. Jacob was deeply troubled; f

aid: "Slay my two sons if

s gone in a short time, and they were likely to starve so great was t

is. He asked them why they told the man that they had a brother, and they replied, that t

ah, "if I bring him not unto the

ey, and spices, and balm, and nuts, and double the money, so as to return

w Benjamin with them he told the steward of his house to make ready

teward how they found the money when they opened their bags, and that they had brought it back doubled; but the steward spo

ade ready to dine with the Governor at

e well, and if the old man of whom they spoke was still alive, and they replied that he was.

and he went quickly to his own chamb

selves, and the brothers were placed according to their ages-Reuben at the head and Benjamin last, and they wondered among themselves at thi

th it, and they went on their way, but Joseph had told the steward to put the m

y, the steward overtook them, and charged

o one of them had stolen th

cup is found, and the rest

. Then they rent their clothes for grief, and loaded the asses and went back to the city, and when the

is this you

ah

, or how shall we clear ourselv

said

he shall be my servant, and as for you

eph, and all his soul came fo

servant speak a wor

he little one, for his mother, and his brother now dead. He reminded Joseph that he had told them to bring the boy to him, and that they had said, that if the

one had been torn in pieces, and now if mischief should befall the other, it would bring his gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. He asked Joseph what he should do when he returned to his father without the la

my father," said Judah, "a

out of the room, and then weeping so that the Egyptians and the peo

imself known t

d, "whom you sold into Egypt," and

"for God sent me before you to save your lives by a great deliverance. It was not you th

ask him to come down at once, with all his flocks and herds, and dwell

The king heard the story of Joseph's brothers and was pleased. He told Joseph to send wagons for the wives and little ones of his brothers, and to tell th

rother, but to little Benjamin he gave five suits, and three hundred pieces of silver. He also loaded twent

fall not ou

ing of Joseph, and his heart was faint, for he did not believe them; but when he

on is yet alive: I will go

At Beersheba Jacob stopped and worshiped God, where his father had built an altar years before; and God told him in the night that he

flocks and herds came into Egypt. There were sixty-seven souls, an

ectly there with the cattle and sheep. And when Joseph knew that his father was coming, he we

have seen thy face, bec

king spoke very kindly to them, and gave them the best of the land

ather in also and Ja

s the Lord had promised Jacob, when in a dream he saw the angels of God at

East, and to the North, and to the South, and in t

amine, and saved seed for the people to sow the

t saved o

promise that he would bury him when he died in the to

man gave them his blessing, laying his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, the youngest, and his left hand on that

deemed me from all

e as a prophet speaks who has a vision of things to come, and he blessed them there. When he spoke to Judah, he

even years old when he died, and

ning in Egypt, Joseph and his brothers and many Egyptians who were Joseph's friends, carried the body of Ja

ned to Egypt, the br

us, and bring upon us al

h wept, for he had nothing but love in his heart toward his brothers, and he

but God meant it unto good. I will

to all his family, and a wise ruler of the people, and he died after making his family promise

bring you out of this land into the land which