Again, Joseph said to his brethren, Come near, I pray you, to me. And they came near. And he said, (A)I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

Now therefore be not [a]sad, neither grieved with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: (B)For God did send me before you for your preservation.

For now two years of famine have been through the land, and five years are behind, wherein neither shall be earing nor harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:5 This example teacheth that we must by all means comfort them, which are truly humbled and wounded for their sins.

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