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Printed Caption:
Joseph
makes himself known to his brethren.
Genesis 45:1-25
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. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the
house of Pharaoh heard. 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.
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. Now therefore be not grieved,
not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God
did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years
hath the famine been in the land: and yet there
are five years, in the which there shall neither be
earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a
great deliverance. So now it was not you that
sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh,
and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the
land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto
him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all
Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: (KJV)
Figures
de la Bible (1728)
Illustrated by Gerard
Hoet (1648-1733), and others.
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