- "For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
- "God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
- "Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- "Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.
- "You shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.
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- 現在這地的饑荒已經二年了、還在五年不能耕種、不能收成。
- 神差我在你們以先來、為要給你們存留餘種在世上、又要大施拯救、保全你們的生命。
- 這樣看來、差我到這裡來的不是你們、乃是 神、他又使我如法老的父、作他全家的主、並埃及全地的宰相。
- 你們要趕緊上到我父親那裡、對他說、你兒子約瑟這樣說、 神使我作全埃及的主、請你下到我這裡來、不要耽延。
- 你和你我兒子、孫子、連牛群、羊群、並一切所有的、都可以住在歌珊地、與我相近.
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