Joseph makes himself known

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Ge 45:1: 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.
Ge 45:2: And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Ge 45:3: 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.
Ge 45:4: 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.
Ge 45:5: Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Ge 45:6: 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.
Ge 45:7: And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Ge 45:8: 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.