Genesis 45:2 meaning and explanation

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.

Genesis 45:2, Berean Standard Bible

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Joseph has just ordered his attendants out of the room so he can reveal himself to the brothers who sold him into slavery twenty years earlier. The verse captures the moment his composure breaks: the second most powerful man in Egypt weeps so loudly that the sound carries beyond the walls to the Egyptians and to Pharaoh's household.

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