6 This is only the second year of famine in the land; there will be five more years in which there will be neither ploughing nor reaping.
7 God sent me ahead of you to rescue you in this amazing way and to make sure that you and your descendants survive.
8 So it was not really you who sent me here, but God. He has made me the king's highest official. I am in charge of his whole country; I am the ruler of all Egypt.
9 “Now hurry back to my father and tell him that this is what his son Joseph says: ‘God has made me ruler of all Egypt; come to me without delay.
10 You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me — you, your children, your grandchildren, your sheep, your goats, your cattle, and everything else that you have.
11 If you are in Goshen, I can take care of you. There will still be five years of famine; and I do not want you, your family, and your livestock to starve.’ ”
12 Joseph continued, “Now all of you, and you too, Benjamin, can see that I am really Joseph.