Quotes about Family
Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
- Genesis 45:13
Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
- Genesis 45:14
Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.
- Genesis 45:15
Then bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.’
- Genesis 45:18
You are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
- Genesis 45:19
He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.
- Genesis 45:22
And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.
- Genesis 45:23
Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!”
- Genesis 45:24
So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 45:25
“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.
- Genesis 45:26
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.
- Genesis 45:27
“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
- Genesis 45:28