And he said unto them: "Weep not over me, but hasten and bring my father to me; and ye see that it is my mouth that speaketh and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see.

For behold this is the second year of the famine, and there are still five years without harvest or fruit of trees or ploughing.

Come down quickly ye and your households, so that ye perish not through the famine, and do not be grieved for your possessions,

for the Lord sent me before you to set things in order that many people might live.