Quotes About Reunion

Then you told your servants, ëBring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.í

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.

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaohís household soon heard of it.

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.

Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ëThis is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

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

Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

When the news reached Pharaohís house that Josephís brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.

You are also directed to tell them: ëTake wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.

So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

“Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.

However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.

“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Josephís own hands will close your eyes.”

Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacobís family arrived in the land of Goshen,

Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”

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.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”