It must be sweeps week because here is the big dramatic reunion scene you’ve been waiting for. Overcome with emotion, Joseph drives everyone out except his brothers then tells them everything. He also tells them not to worry about selling him into Egypt because that was God’s doing.

Genesis 45

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all of them and he cried out “Make everyone go out from me!” And no man stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 

2 He wept  out loud and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Joseph said to his brothers “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” And his brothers could not answer him; for they were terrified in his presence.

4 Joseph said to his brothers “Please come near,” and they came near. And he said “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

5 Now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here for God sent me before you to preserve life.

6 For the past two years the famine has been in the land and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing nor harvesting. 

7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 So it was not you that sent me here but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and say to him “Your son Joseph says ‘God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not delay. 

10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children, and your children’s children, and your flocks, herds, and all that you have.

11 And I will provide for you there, for there are five more years of famine; otherwise you and your household, and all that you have, will come to poverty.’

12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

13 And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. And you shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

14 He threw his arms around his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept. And Benjamin wept on his shoulder. 

15 He kissed all of his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

16 When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.

17 Pharaoh said to Joseph “Tell your brothers ‘Do this, load your animals and go, get back to the land of Canaan.

18 And bring your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat of the land.

19 Now you are commanded to do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

20 Do not worry about your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

21 The children of Israel did so, and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the way.

22 He gave each man changes of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of clothes. 

23 And to his father he sent ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread and meat for his father for the journey.

24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them “See that you do not quarrel on the way.” 

25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father,

26 And told him “Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt.” And Jacob was stunned for he did not believe them. 

27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived:

28 And Israel said “It is enough, my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”