Genesis 45:11-19 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

11. I will care for you during the next five years of hunger. In this way, you and your family and all that you have will not starve.’

12. “Now you can see for yourselves. The one speaking to you is really Joseph. And my brother Benjamin can see this.

13. So tell my father about how powerful I have become in Egypt. Tell him about everything you have seen. Now hurry and bring him back to me.”

14. Then Joseph hugged his brother Benjamin and cried. And Benjamin cried also.

15. Then Joseph kissed all his brothers. He cried as he hugged them. After this, his brothers talked with him.

16. The king of Egypt and his officers learned that Joseph’s brothers had come. And they were very happy about this.

17. So the king said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers to load their animals and go back to the land of Canaan.

18. Tell them to bring their father and their families back here to me. I will give them the best land in Egypt. And they will eat the best food we have here.

19. Tell them to take some wagons from Egypt for their children and their wives. And tell them to bring their father back also.

Genesis 45