Quotes About Identity

Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

But we told him, ëWe are honest men, not spies.

We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.í

They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ëIs your father still alive? Do you have another brother?í And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ëBring your brother hereí?”

When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own motherís son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”

My lord asked his servants, ëDo you have a father or a brother?í

And we answered, ëWe have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boyís brother is dead. He is the only one of his motherís sons left, and his father loves him.í

And your servant my father said to us, ëYou know that my wife bore me two sons.

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!

Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.

The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.

These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.

The sons of Jacobís wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

These are the sons of Rachel born to Jacob—fourteen in all.

Joseph said to his brothers and to his fatherís household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ëMy brothers and my fatherís household from the land of Canaan have come to me.

When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ëWhat is your occupation?í

“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Josephís brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”

“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.

And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.