Genesis 41:50-52, Genesis 42:23-24, Genesis 43:30, Genesis 45:1-2, Genesis 45:14-15, Genesis 46:29, Genesis 50:1, Genesis 50:17

The Sons of Joseph

⁵⁰Now before the year of famine came, ^atwo sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of ¹On, bore to him. ⁵¹And Joseph named the firstborn ¹Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.” ⁵²And he named the second ¹Ephraim, “For,” he said, “^aGod has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

²³Now they did not know that Joseph was listening, for there was an interpreter between them. ²⁴And he turned away from them and ^awept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them. And he ^btook Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

³⁰And Joseph hurried out for ¹^,^ahe was deeply stirred with compassion over his brother, and he sought a place to weep; and he entered his chamber and ^bwept there.

Joseph Sends for Jacob

45Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he called out, “Have everyone go out from me.” So there ¹was no man with him ^awhen Joseph made himself known to his brothers. ²^aThen he ¹wept loudly. And the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.

¹⁴Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and ^awept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. ¹⁵He kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

²⁹And Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared ¹before him, he fell on his neck and ^awept on his neck a long time.

50Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.

¹⁷‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, “Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they dealt evil against you.”’ So now, please forgive the transgression of the slaves of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.