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Sheni [2nd]: ^44:31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to She'ol. ^44:32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.' ^44:33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers. ^44:34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

^45:1Then Yosef couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" There stood no man with him, while Yosef made himself known to his brothers. ^45:2He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Par`oh heard. ^45:3Yosef said to his brothers, "I am Yosef! Does my father still live?"

His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence. ^45:4Yosef said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please."

They came near. "He said, I am Yosef, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. ^45:5Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for G-d sent me before you to preserve life. ^45:6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. ^45:7God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

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Shlishi [3rd]: ^45:8So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but G-d, and he has made me a father to Par`oh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. ^45:9Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Yosef says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait. ^45:10You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. ^45:11There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."' ^45:12Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Binyamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. ^45:13You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here." ^45:14He fell on his brother Binyamin's neck, and wept, and Binyamin wept on his neck. ^45:15He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

^45:16The report of it was heard in Par`oh's house, saying, "Yosef's brothers have come." It pleased Par`oh well, and his servants. ^45:17Par`oh said to Yosef, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Kana`an. ^45:18Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

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R'vi'i [4th]: ^45:19Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. ^45:20Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."

^45:21The sons of Yisra'el did so. Yosef gave them wagons, according to the mitzvah of Par`oh, and gave them provision for the way. ^45:22To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. ^45:23To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. ^45:24So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."

^45:25They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Kana`an, to Ya`akov their father. ^45:26They told him, saying, "Yosef is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them. ^45:27They told him all the words of Yosef, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Yosef had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ya`akov, their father, revived.

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Chamishi [5th]: ^45:28Yisra'el said, "It is enough. Yosef my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."

^46:1Yisra'el traveled with all that he had, and came to Be'er-Sheva, and offered sacrifices to the G-d of his father, Yitzchak. ^46:2God spoke to Yisra'el in the visions of the night, and said, "Ya`akov, Ya`akov!"

He said, "Here I am."

^46:3He said, "I am G-d, the G-d of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation. ^46:4I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Yosef will close your eyes."

^46:5Ya`akov rose up from Be'er-Sheva, and the sons of Yisra'el carried Ya`akov, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Par`oh had sent to carry him. <sup>46:6</sup>They took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Kana`an, and came into Egypt-- Ya`akov, and all his seed with him, ^46:7his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

^46:8These are the names of the children of Yisra'el, who came into Egypt, Ya`akov and his sons: Re'uven, Ya`akov's firstborn. ^46:9The sons of Re'uven: Chanokh, Pallu, Chetzron, and Karmi. ^46:10The sons of Shim`on: Yemu'el, Yamin, Ohad, Yakhin, Tzochar, and Sha'ul the son of a Kana`ani woman. ^46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari. ^46:12The sons of Yehudah: `Er, Onan, Shelach, Peretz, and Zerach; but `Er and Onan died in the land of Kana`an. The sons of Peretz were Chetzron and Chamul. <sup>46:13</sup>The sons of Yissakhar: Tola, Puvah, Yov, and Shimron. <sup>46:14</sup>The sons of Zevulun: Sered, Elon, and Yachle'el. <sup>46:15</sup>These are the sons of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov in Paddan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. ^46:16The sons of Gad: Tzifyon, Chaggi, Shuni, Etzbon, `Eri, Arodi, and Ar'eli. <sup>46:17</sup>The sons of Asher: Yimna, Yishvah, Yishvi, Beri`ah, and Serach their sister. The sons of Beri`ah: Chever and Malki'el. <sup>46:18</sup>These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to Le'ah, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov, even sixteen souls. ^46:19The sons of Rachel, Ya`akov's wife: Yosef and Binyamin. <sup>46:20</sup>To Yosef in the land of Egypt were born Menashsheh and Efrayim, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera, kohen of On, bore to him. <sup>46:21</sup>The sons of Binyamin: Bela, Bekher, Ashbel, Gera, Na`aman, Echi, Rosh, Muppim, Chuppim, and Ard. ^46:22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Ya`akov: all the souls were fourteen. <sup>46:23</sup>The son of Dan: Chushim. <sup>46:24</sup>The sons of Naftali: Yachtze'el, Guni, Yetzer, and Shillem. <sup>46:25</sup>These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Lavan gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov: all the souls were seven. ^46:26All the souls who came with Ya`akov into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Ya`akov's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six. ^46:27The sons of Yosef, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Ya`akov, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

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Shishi [6th]: ^46:28He sent Yehudah before him to Yosef, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. ^46:29Yosef made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra'el, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. ^46:30Yisra'el said to Yosef, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

^46:31Yosef said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Par`oh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Kana`an, have come to me. ^46:32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.' ^46:33It will happen, when Par`oh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?' ^46:34that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

^47:1Then Yosef went in and told Par`oh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Kana`an; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen." ^47:2From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Par`oh. <sup>47:3</sup>Par`oh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?"

They said to Par`oh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers." <sup>47:4</sup>They said to Par`oh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Kana`an. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

^47:5Par`oh spoke to Yosef, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. ^47:6The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my cattle."

^47:7Yosef brought in Ya`akov, his father, and set him before Par`oh, and Ya`akov blessed Par`oh. ^47:8Par`oh said to Ya`akov, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

^47:9Ya`akov said to Par`oh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." ^47:10Ya`akov blessed Par`oh, and went out from the presence of Par`oh.

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Shvi'i [7th]: ^47:11Yosef placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ra`meses, as Par`oh had commanded. ^47:12Yosef nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

^47:13There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Kana`an fainted by reason of the famine. <sup>47:14</sup>Yosef gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Kana`an, for the grain which they bought: and Yosef brought the money into Par`oh's house. <sup>47:15</sup>When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Kana`an, all the Egyptians came to Yosef, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

^47:16Yosef said, "Give your cattle; and I will give you food for your cattle, if money fails."

^47:17They brought their cattle to Yosef, and Yosef gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year. ^47:18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. ^47:19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Par`oh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

^47:20So Yosef bought all the land of Egypt for Par`oh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Par`oh's. ^47:21As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. ^47:22Only he didn't buy the land of the kohanim, for the kohanim had a portion from Par`oh, and ate their portion which Par`oh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land. ^47:23Then Yosef said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Par`oh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. <sup>47:24</sup>It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Par`oh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."

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Maftir [Concluding]: ^47:25They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Par`oh's servants."

^47:26Yosef made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Par`oh should have the fifth. Only the land of the kohanim alone didn't become Par`oh's.

^47:27Yisra'el lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

Additional B'rit Chadashah reading: Acts 7:9-16

^7:9"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Yosef, sold him into Egypt. G-d was with him, ^7:10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Par`oh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. <sup>7:11</sup>Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Kana`an, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. ^7:12But when Ya`akov heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. <sup>7:13</sup>On the second time Yosef was made known to his brothers, and Yosef's race was revealed to Par`oh. ^7:14Yosef sent, and summoned Ya`akov, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. <sup>7:15</sup>Ya`akov went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers, ^7:16and they were brought back to Shekhem, and laid in the tomb that Avraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Chamor of Shekhem.