Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
2 But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
- KJV
- Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
- WEB
- Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
- ASV
- Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood before him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
- DARBY
- And Joseph could not control himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried, Put every man out from me! And no man stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brethren.
- BLB
- And Joseph was not able to restrain himself before all those who were standing by him, and he cried out, “Make go out every man from me!” And no man stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
- ÅB
- Da kunne ikke Josef lenger legge bånd på seg for alle dem som sto hos ham; han ropte: La hver mann gå ut fra meg! Og det var ingen tilstede da Josef gav seg til kjenne for sine brødre.
- OTB
- Da kunne Josef ikke lenger beherske seg for alle dem som sto omkring ham, og han ropte: «La alle gå ut fra meg!» Så var det ingen hos Josef da han ga seg til kjenne for brødrene sine.
- B1930
- Da kunde ikke Josef lenger legge bånd på sig for alle dem som stod hos ham; han ropte: La hver mann gå ut fra mig! Og det var ingen tilstede da Josef gav sig til kjenne for sine brødre.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 18:15
If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
Read in contextGenesis 43:30–31
Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
Read in contextIsaiah 42:14
“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
Read in contextActs 10:41
not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
Read in context2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
Read in context1 Corinthians 13:5
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
Read in contextJeremiah 20:9
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
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