5 Now, don’t be upset and don’t be angry with yourselves that you sold me here. Actually, God sent me before you to save lives.
6 We’ve already had two years of famine in the land, and there are five years left without planting or harvesting.
7 God sent me before you to make sure you’d survive and to rescue your lives in this amazing way.
8 You didn’t send me here; it was God who made me a father to Pharaoh, master of his entire household, and ruler of the whole land of Egypt.
9 "Hurry! Go back to your father. Tell him this is what your son Joseph says: ‘God has made me master of all of Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t delay.
10 You may live in the land of Goshen, so you will be near me, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everyone with you.
11 I will support you there, so you, your household, and everyone with you won’t starve, since the famine will still last five years.’