Genesis 45:4-6

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⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me.” And they came closer. He said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.^{(A) 5} And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.^{(B) 6} For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.