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Genesis Chapter 45

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In Genesis 45 Joseph and his brothers meet a famine in Egypt, and Joseph interprets their dream to reveal that Pharaoh will release the Israelites from slavery. The chapter also shows Joseph’s humility as he offers to share his wealth with his brothers, emphasizing God’s providence and reconciliation.

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(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.
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Genesis 43:30Genesis 43:31Isaiah 42:14Jeremiah 20:9II Samuel 1:20Matthew 18:15Acts 10:41I Corinthians 13:5

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Genesis 37:28Genesis 37:2Genesis 37:23Genesis 41:46Genesis 45:3Genesis 45:4

(2) And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
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Numbers 14:1Ruth 1:9II Kings 20:3Acts 20:37

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Genesis 41:55Genesis 43:32Exodus 18:10Genesis 41:25

(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.
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Matthew 14:27Acts 7:13Acts 9:5Job 4:5Job 23:15Zechariah 12:10Matthew 14:26Mark 6:50Luke 5:8Luke 24:37Luke 24:38Revelation 1:7

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Genesis 37:28Genesis 41:46Deuteronomy 8:3Genesis 37:2Genesis 37:23Genesis 45:1

(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.
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Genesis 37:28Genesis 50:18Matthew 14:27Acts 9:5

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Genesis 37:28Genesis 33:7Genesis 27:25Genesis 48:13Numbers 16:5Numbers 36:1

(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.
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Isaiah 40:1Isaiah 40:2Luke 23:34II Corinthians 2:7II Corinthians 2:11Genesis 45:7Genesis 45:8Genesis 47:25Genesis 50:20I Samuel 1:19II Samuel 12:12II Samuel 16:10

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Isaiah 8:9Isaiah 50:1

(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.
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Genesis 41:29Genesis 41:30Genesis 41:31Genesis 41:54Genesis 41:56Genesis 47:18Genesis 47:23Exodus 34:21Deuteronomy 21:4I Samuel 8:12Isaiah 30:24

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Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 18:28Numbers 7:17Numbers 7:23Numbers 7:29

(7) And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
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Judges 15:18I Chronicles 11:14Psalms 18:50Psalms 44:4Acts 7:35

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II Samuel 19:5

(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.
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Genesis 45:5John 15:16John 19:11Romans 9:16Genesis 41:39Genesis 41:40Genesis 41:41Genesis 41:42Genesis 41:43Genesis 41:44Genesis 41:45Genesis 41:46

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Genesis 41:25Genesis 41:46

(9) Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
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Genesis 45:13Genesis 45:19Genesis 45:20

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Genesis 37:28

(10) And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
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Genesis 46:29Genesis 46:34Genesis 47:1Genesis 47:2Genesis 47:3Genesis 47:4Genesis 47:5Genesis 47:6Exodus 8:22Exodus 9:26John 14:2John 14:3

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Genesis 47:1Genesis 50:8

(11) And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
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Genesis 47:6Genesis 47:12Matthew 15:5Matthew 15:6Mark 7:9Mark 7:10Mark 7:11Mark 7:12I Timothy 5:4

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Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 18:28Numbers 7:17Numbers 7:23Numbers 7:29

(12) And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
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Genesis 42:23Luke 24:39John 20:27

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I Corinthians 14:2

(13) And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
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John 17:24I Peter 1:10I Peter 1:11I Peter 1:12Revelation 21:23Acts 7:14

(14) And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
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Genesis 29:11Genesis 33:4Genesis 46:29Romans 1:31

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Genesis 46:29Genesis 33:4Acts 20:37II Samuel 3:32II Samuel 13:36Genesis 50:1

(15) Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
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Genesis 45:2Genesis 29:11Genesis 29:13Genesis 33:4Exodus 4:27Ruth 1:9Ruth 1:14I Samuel 10:1I Samuel 20:41II Samuel 14:33Luke 15:20Acts 20:37

(16) And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
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Genesis 16:6Genesis 20:15Genesis 34:18Genesis 41:33Deuteronomy 1:33II Samuel 3:36II Chronicles 30:4Esther 1:21Esther 2:4Esther 5:14Acts 6:5

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II Kings 4:26Exodus 2:15Genesis 12:15Genesis 41:25I Kings 11:20Genesis 40:11

(17) And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
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Genesis 42:25Genesis 42:26Genesis 44:1Genesis 44:2

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Genesis 41:25Genesis 41:46Genesis 46:31Genesis 47:1Genesis 47:14Genesis 41:14

(18) And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
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Genesis 27:28Genesis 47:6Numbers 18:12Numbers 18:29Deuteronomy 32:14Psalms 81:16Psalms 147:14Isaiah 28:1Isaiah 28:4

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Exodus 29:22Leviticus 3:9Leviticus 4:8Leviticus 8:25

(19) Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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Isaiah 49:1Isaiah 49:23Genesis 45:27Genesis 46:5Genesis 31:17Genesis 31:18

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Genesis 46:5Genesis 34:29Numbers 32:26Deuteronomy 3:19Deuteronomy 29:11Joshua 1:14

(20) Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
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Deuteronomy 7:16Deuteronomy 19:13Deuteronomy 19:21Isaiah 13:18Ezekiel 7:4Ezekiel 7:9Ezekiel 9:5Ezekiel 20:17Exodus 22:7Joshua 7:11I Samuel 10:22I Samuel 25:13

(21) And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
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Genesis 45:19Genesis 45:27Genesis 46:5Numbers 7:3Numbers 7:4Numbers 7:5Numbers 7:6Numbers 7:7Numbers 7:8Numbers 7:9Ezekiel 23:24Exodus 17:1

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Genesis 41:25Genesis 41:46Genesis 41:14Genesis 41:16Genesis 41:44Genesis 41:55

(22) To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
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Judges 14:12Judges 14:19II Kings 5:5II Kings 5:22II Kings 5:23Revelation 6:11Genesis 43:34

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II Kings 5:5II Kings 6:25Leviticus 27:6Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 18:28

(23) And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
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Genesis 24:10Genesis 43:11Exodus 16:3

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Genesis 32:15Leviticus 2:14Exodus 27:12Exodus 38:12Judges 20:10I Kings 7:38

(24) So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
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Genesis 37:22Genesis 42:21Genesis 42:22Psalms 133:1Psalms 133:2Psalms 133:3John 13:34John 13:35Ephesians 4:31Ephesians 4:32Philippians 2:2Philippians 2:3

(25) And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
(26) And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.
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Luke 24:34Genesis 45:8Genesis 45:9Psalms 105:21Genesis 37:35Genesis 42:36Genesis 42:38Genesis 44:28Jonah 2:7Job 9:16Job 29:24Psalms 126:1

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Genesis 37:28

(27) And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
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Judges 15:19I Samuel 30:12Psalms 85:6Isaiah 57:15Hosea 6:2

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Genesis 37:28Genesis 37:2Genesis 37:23Genesis 41:46Genesis 45:1Genesis 45:3

(28) And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
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Genesis 46:30Luke 2:28Luke 2:29Luke 2:30John 16:21John 16:22

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II Kings 7:4Genesis 46:30II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8Genesis 37:28

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