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Joseph wept loudly, so that the Egyptians heard him. All the people in Pharaoh's house knew about it.

Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?’ But his brothers could not answer him because they were too frightened. They could see Joseph was there in front of them![a]

Then Joseph said to them, ‘Come near to me.’ So they did that. He said, ‘I am your brother Joseph. I am the one that you sold to become a slave in Egypt!

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  1. 45:3 The brothers were frightened because they had sold Joseph, as a slave. They did not know what Joseph would do to them.